Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-12-20
SHAW'S LIFE!
Mrs. Shaw Writes in
Her Defense.
0issects Her Husband in
Choice Words.
Says He Never Pays His Bills and Is
a Mean Cur.
A VERY BITTER LETTER.

fsultoIs titllen.
Los Angeles. Dec. ia copy Of your
paper Of Dec. 6 has Just beer forwarded
to me. What caused you to put such
"a thing in the paper? Everyone In
Bland knows tina Il IL all a lie. IL
there ever was a
A MEAN CoNTEMPTIBLE CUR
on earth II Is shaw. The very idea OF
M leaving with Or. Benham. shaw
knew all the time I was in Walla
Walla and he came there 20 me. DR..
Benham never came until after shaw
came. Shaw was the one that got Dr.
Benham to come there.
purchase money belonged TO my dead
and was working like a Niger: the
purchase money belonged to my dear
h~usband-the most OF u. shaw came
there and because | would not deed 81
over to him and kick my daughter out
in the street he made my life unbear-
able. 50 ] mortgaged everything I had
and gave him $1,000 and he promised
never to bother me again.
He left Walla Walla n In Ave
weeks returned and wanted me to live
with him again. When | refused he
THREATENED no KILL ME
O the police authorities locked him up
n Jail for one day and then gave him
ust one day TO get out OF town, and
ie did get out.
H. has lone everything on earth to
uin myself and daughter. 1 think l
iave friends enough In Bland who
,ncw | was a good vlrtuous woman
what we had In Bland I worked like a
'og for, AMI commenced In a tent keep
1g boarders In Allerton. He never had
I until l worked like a Save and got
f, FOR him. Ills VIE. who died i've
nonths before we were married,
LIES IN A PAUPERS GRAVE
lie never VAS known to pay an hon
- debt. | was nothing but a dog for
lin and my two girls were kicked out
n the cold world and he never was
| nan enough to offer them one cent. ]
ia everything a wife could co to make
rome pleasant ana would hav, still
lved with him. but he would not let
ne. lie left me sick without money.
| Everything / have written ear he prov
d. ! can give YOU the names of the
| lest citizens OF waiiS Nalla that will
Gritty TO everything | hav salt They
| m know me well from the time | went
here until I left. came back here on
he 9Th Of December In ve:y poo.
| leaith. Or. Benham came here last
september and he has been practicing
,yer since and Shaw knew |. well.
shaw
CAN HAVE A DIVORCE.
iut not on such grounds as that. As
ar as living with DIR. BenhaIn or any
,thcr man there Il no truth IN it,and
g well knows II n he has got to
irove It. | want The citizen to pub
ISL every word OF his letter. Talk
lbout him being a successful business
nan, He never had a customer he did
rot rob; even mis- own son-in-law. lie
,hargcd them all with things they
lever got. Ask Mr.. IL. NJ. Reed, the
nan who bought the store and took the
ostonice. ASK any man In Aihuquer-
Iue. Mr.. Reed can tell OF the way h
led to him TO get him to buy the store
Please publish every wore Of this and
end me a copy.
MRS. ANNA SHAW.
Note-It has always been the policy
4 The citizen to give each side OF a
family In trouble a public hearing
through the columns of this paper. Mr.
shaw had his inning. when he returned
from the Pacific coast and was quite
free in talking to a umbe OF people
in this city and on the train OF his fam
ly troubles. and on this information ar
article appeared on December 6. In thai
article he found one mistake n asked
that a correction be made as to his
finding Dr. Benham and Mrs. shaw
living together as man and wife, which
a o the case. The Citizen gladly
mode the correction. Now comes Mrs
shaw, the wife. ana tells her tale OF
woe and trials with her husband, anc
asks that her letter be published. 1t Il
printed above and presents some In
terestlng facts. at the same time prov
ing 20 the reading public. especially tC
the goSslpers, that Mrs, Shaw knows
how TO handle the English language SC
as to get out some very strong points
In her defense.