El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-09
WIFE'S SAD PLIGHT
She Nearly Starved for Four
Days and Was MaItreat-
ed In Numerous
Ways.

A story of more or less interest in El
Paso has come 10 hight in Chihuahua
and has aroused the better people CT
that city to the greatest indignation.
1t is the story of A. \. Garston and
his wife, who spent several weeks in
Paso last October. 1t will be remem-
bered that Garston gave numerous
capped TO Mexico in a mysterious way.
His wife followed him and neither was
again heard of until several weeks
later
They went to Chihuahua. In Ell Paso
Garston and his wife stopped at a first
class hotel and Mrs. Garston was quite
q favorite with all who knew her Here
it became rumored that she had run
away from home 20 marry him. She
was very young and beautiful as we'll
as accomplished and cIever in CONVEX
sation.
At Chihuahua they stopped at a good
hotel and for 8 while GarstoR PAL
their board o,st of money he received
on worthI ess 5ck ecks. Finally his men,
ey gave out and he moved his young
wife to a respectable American room
ing hoE-se. Here she began 60 realize
more haan ever that She had destroyed
herself by .clhlging to the man she had
marrteSi. .Fnr four days she remained
at that house without anything 10 ca,
except a lin.le tea offered her by e
lady friend one afternoon. She was
too proud To beg and came near starv-
ing there.
In~the ati ernoon of the fourth day
Gar<ton came in and told his wife that
some friends had invited them to stay
at their .hOpse until he conld get money
from home He explained that the Ia
dies were.IrDt at home h,u would return
in a few days. She accepted the inv
tatjan and was taken to the house af-
ter night She went 10 small room
and for thee days remained there re
ceiring heI meals in her room and see
ing no one at all. In the evening of
the third day Garston came in and told
her that the women had returned and
asked her to join them in the parlor.
WiCb this the husband led
his pretty young wife into a parlor
where gay girls were dancing, singing.
and drinking beer to the music OF a na-
tive orchestra. She was received with |
a hurrah-
Bursting into tears Mrs Garston |
He'd from the room and sought her own |
r-fa a ho6
that roof for three days knowing moth
ng of the character of the place She |
denounced her husband in a tit of |
wrath and remained in her room uE-
ible to leave untiI the next day. The
girls visited her and apparently were
'itying her. Feeling that every friend
he had ever had had deserted her and
hat her own parents would never re-
Give her, suffering from intense hun (
er and deprivation. the young woman
nst hope.
After this turn of affairs Garston {
uns around the place trying to see his {
Tife but with the assistance of the DO
ce she has kept him from the house l
lie then went o the Hotel Palacio and {
ngaged board. Having no money his c
i'm arrested Saturday for the debt. f
[e was taken to Jail but released on
lie promise that he would pay the S
loney by O'Clock. He then sent q a
ote to his wife asking her for the v
oney and she refused Garston had
othing more to do and escaped from
'wn and up until yesterday had not
zen heard of.
Garston was once a man of good po-
ton. 1t is said that he was an as
slant travelling passenger agent of N
e Illinois Central railroad out of Chi IL
go, and when he married went west g
fCOntinno1 nm Fifth pauol Ii,