Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-24
RICH RECITAL.
Mrs. Avilla Tells Of tho Wrong Doings
Of Miss Petty.
AS GUILTY AS HER HUSBAND
Editors Citizen:

Editors Citizen:
| do not uphold anyone in wrong
doing. My sympathy runs with those
who have been wronged. And If Ada
Petty had been SO wronged and de-
ceived as she has led everyone to be-
lieve, I would certainly give her my
heartfelt sympathy. | certainly uphold
and protect a good girl trying to do
right, but | believe in justice being
done in every case. And If my hus-
band is guilty, as she claims, she, too,
is guilty. God in heaven and they two
alone know. Then why should one be
shielded and the other bear all the
blame? She claims that when she
found he was a married man sne left
him; contrary to that she wrote an
anonymous letter to me, knowing that
I was yet in bed after the birth Of our
baby, telling M he was untrue to me
and asking me to come to 20i North
Arno street and see. Signed, "A
Friend" This letter was written De-
cember 6. She talked with me on De-
cember 81, when came here, telling
me everything possible to get me to
leave him. And when Mr.. Avilla and
4 went to his room, 215 silver avenue,
(where she had obtainedsa room Nest
to 'his), (that evening after my talk
with her In the afternoon), to get his
clothes, there was a note telling him
his wife had been to see her, and she
wanted to see him, after pretending to
me when she found out he was a mar
ried man she would have nothing more
to do with him. l am too proud to beg
him to live with me, even though he is
my husband, SO l told him to take his
choice before her. If he wanted to live
In the house for the sake Of our chill
dren he could, but If he chose her /
would never get a divorce. and he
could not get one. He chose his wife
and after our return home he changed
Als run to Needles, And between the
time OF our departure from Albuquer-
.ue till his arrest we received some
thing like seventeen letters from her,
begging him to leave his wife and chr
dren. that God would provide for his
children, that he must &c away with
her, saying your wife said she would
not grant a divorce, but she did not
care IL they were never married-he
must go away with her by the 18th Of
January, or she would have vengeance
If it fell on the whole family. She
would not live without him. Our baby
took sick and died and the doctor said
his sickness was caused by the worry
and nervous strain upon me caused by
the trip to Albuquerque and the letters
she still persisted In writing after he
had told her he did not want to have
anything to do with her. She was not
satisfied with all she had done; no, she
had to do more. She acknowledged in
two letters that she had written those
anonymous letters to me, and said
about a dozen times she was in a deli
cate condition, and said she would
send the child to the orphans home
and in another letter asking him tC
ask me to tell her what to do to gel
rid of it. ! never wrote her a line and
surely she did not expect me to tel
her that. Anyone, even not a Chris
tian, should nave more honor. Up t
her last letters she claimed to be sicl
anu III tHdt IOuuAllOhi anu hOn VIZ
mics il.
She said she never went under tn
name of Avilla. She ordered a pape
for a month and sent the bill to m.
husband to pay. The bill is heade
Mrs. Avilla. She saw when he advise
her to go home and live a Christia
life that all her threats and pleading
had been in vain, SO she then brough
up the story of the mock marriage,
which she has not yer a witness nc
a Notwithstanding to prove it too
place.
Mr.. Avilla was in a little play ono
and took the name of James Forres
He has often written 1t in %autograp
albums before and after our marriage
six years age the 23d day of Noven
Der. He often told ms since he went o
passenger two years age the 7th {
November, that girls would ask hil
his name and he would say that col
sidering it none of their business, h
would not tell them. From observi
ton and hearsay | think that if peopl
on trains knew their place and woul
keep it there would be less trouble an
many a heartaehe saved.
| was "a years old the 18th day
last October, and If my hair was ont
brown las the paper said is no
streaked with gray my friends and m
self fail to notice it, but some thin
are done for spite, as | am sure til
was, because desired information cou
not be obtained. If each person won
be sure they we're faultless before tn
comment on others faults, they won
not talk so much.
All | ask is justice, neither censl
ing nor ~excusing either party CO
cerned. | will always stand by
woman as long as / conscientious
can. And | consider ii my duty to hi
the father of my children as much
4 4 - 1890. a. 10