The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-04
RoJAs LOVED THEM BOTH
SOON DESERTED HIS WIFE FOR
SOME ONE WITH MONEY.
She Believes With Judge Ogden That
Whipping Post Would not
Be Without Good
Effect.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,


Mrs. A. Roias of Alvarado is of the
same opinion as Judge Ogden. She be-
lieves that q whipping-post would be a
very desirable addition to the present
means of Furnishing feCreant and cruel
husbands.
Mrs. Rojas has recently been granted a
divorce and, as her husband has been
busily trying to bolster up his acts at the
expense of his wifes reputation. the
woman has taken the unusual course of
telling in detail to the public her varied
experience. Her story is more romantic
than any novelist dare make it, more
sympathetic than the ordinary story that
is ventilated in a divorce court, and reeks
with cruelty compared with which the
story that called forth Judge Ogden's re-
marks savors of the acts Of a good sama-
ritan.
The unhappy woman Of Alvarado thus
relates her experience:
II, Refugia A. Rojas, hereby declare
that the following is a true story or my
married life since L was married to Quad
alupe Rojas. When he first askeds me TO
become his wife I declined, and told him
that, as I knew he loved another woman,
1 could not consider his proposals. After
many months of promises of sincerity l
consented, and we We're married, put oniy
after he had threatened to kill himself II
I refused him"
The narrator then proceeds to tell In
detail how she set her husband Up IN Dusl-
ness on several occasions with her own own
money only to find that he was spending
tie proceeds on his old love. This money
was left Mrs. Rojas by her first husband
for the care OF her nttle ones: + Gpen and md
desertion. but each time THAT RoJas went
away and bestowed his, favors on MS
wife's rival, he came back ana possessed
the ability to again ingratiate himself
with Mrs. Rojas.
The two loves Of Rojas continually met
and quarreled, but the husband did not
or even decency.
Wherever the rival went Rojas was
sure to foIoW ana aar6 unpe ahe fo obfain
money from his wife, which was always
given in the hope that he would start
The II Co Confession proceedsI az After few
weeks. during which my husband had de-
serted me, / was informed by the Portu-
Coming to me l got it and somehow or
other my husband heard of 1t, and he was
not long coming back. He had not
finally said good by to his love in Alva-
RADIO and that we had better move to
that town and put up a house: 1 gave
on a lot Just about block from where
the other woman was living AS soon as
we started to live in our little house our
made my life so unhappy. She coolly
told me that she had not seen or heard
of my husband for so long, that she
called to make inquiry.
A little later Mrs. Rojas received a re-
quest from her rival for Mr.. Roias to go
Wishing to do a little detective work,
Mrs. Rojas sent her husband. and little
later, the narrative proceeds, at dinner
and I saw my husband with his arms
around Mrs Miller's neck, and kissing
her, When I spoke. they jumped up very
Mrs. Rojas, and have some dinner with
u.s. but I thanked her and went home:
Oh, how 1 suffered. He would laugh at.
me every day as he went to call on his
friend, and as her house was only a block
away 1 could see him plainly from my
kitchen window, When l IT, remo no str9t
say nothing and let me alone. I am sure
my friend will be very kind to you To
add to my humiliation he threatened to
kill me If I said a word. and the same
evening he brought over from the
woman's house four or five wheelbarrows
full of provisions which he said had been
nine in my hand and was about to end
my misery when I thought Of my children
and was deferred. He told me that he
loved this woman before he married me,
and that he found all his former affec-
ton returning. 1 noticed that it COM
menced to return as soon as he had spent
what little money / had, and / asked him
to kill me rather than bring about my
death by inches. This angered him so
that he grabbed a lamp and threw 1t at
me, broke all the dishes and chairs, grab
bed me by the throat and told me he was
boss and would do as he liked
The narrative then tells of many acts
of brutality and starvation, and of all
kinds of indignities heaped upon her by
her husband and her rival. In speaking
of the death of their little child which
finally convinced Mrs. Rojas that she had
better live alone, she says: 81 had just
IS left, which was in a trunk, and I told
my husband, for I was sick In bed, to
get little coffin for my child and bury
it decently. He got very angry, left the
house and went off for several days, leav-
ing me without anything to eat or any
attention and enjoying the company of
the woman he loved before he met me-
Mrs. RojaS' story appears to bear the
imprint of truth-it is so blunt and earn
est. 1t is a strange story of the amount
Of misery woman will endure out of
misplaced affection for an unworthy man.
Had not the greater part of it been re-
peated under oath 1t would hardly appear
to be credible. According to her nara
tive her honor nor her children's honor
had any claim on the respect of Rotas.
and a large portion of her experience is
simply indescribable.
The last scene in this unhappy drama
was the selling, a few days ago, of the
little property at Alvarado.
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