Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-01-24
GEORGE w. KNAEBEL.
Secretary.
AvilLA, THE WASHER.
He Is In Deep trouble With Serious
Charges Against Him.

He Is In Deep trouble With Serious
Charges Against Him.
Alonzo Avilla, the passenger brake
having one wife at Winslow and an
other here. and was brought to this
city Saturday night by Deputy United
States Marshal Fred Fornoff is Ian
gushing in the county jail. Saturdays
Citizen gave an account OF Avillas ar
rest and some of the circumstances
which led up to II, but not all.
At first 1t was thought tina; Avilla
had committed bigamy, and that ne
was rightly married TO- two wives.
Now 1t is positively known that his
second marriage in which Miss Ada
Petty was thought to have become his
wife. was a mock marriage, and that
Avllla has committed an offense that
in the territory comes under the Ed
monds act.
Avilla sits In his cell at the county
jail mum as a monk. Through advice
from his attorney, w. C. Heacock. he
refuses to talk.
Miss Petty's Story.
Miss Petty, the girl wronged. was
seen at her room on Silver avenue
Saturday evening and told OF the ar
rest OF her betrayer, Avilla. She re-
ceived the news with downcast eyes,
and tears began to flow down her
cheekG as she told the story of how
she first met Avilla. their long CORE
spondence. the marriage. few happy
weeks. the discovery and the deser-
ton.
MY father and mother live on a
farm near the little town OF Alta.
sixty miles from Des Moines, Iowa.
have a brother living in Los Angeles
atd three years ago ! went there for a
visit. II was while on the train going
there that | met Alonzo Avilla. We
become quite well acquainted while
the train was going between here and
Winslow, the end of AvillG's run. He
is a passenger brakeman, you know.
Well, we correspondent. My brother
at Los Angeles knew him and thought
that he was nice fellow. When re-
iui ntu ttht dkails RNllid llihudEtu w
take the same train at Winslow and
we had nice visit till we got to Albu-
querque, the end @. his run. He was
awful nice to me ana liked him pretty
well. In fact we talked of marriage at
that time. When ! got back to my
to correspond. writing most every
week. Last October he wrote me to
come to Albuquerque and we would
get married. | came and arrived here
the night OF the 10Th. He met me at
the train and took me to his room on
South First street. He went out that
night and was gone two days. On the
night OF October % he returned We
went to a cobblestone house, 204 North
Arno avenue. and were married. There
were no witnesses and Avilla took the
name of james Forrest, He gave as a
reason for having a quiet marriage
that his folks were Catholics and OBJ
jected to marriage to a Protestant.
see now how silly was. The preach
ers name was J. J. O'Bryan. He
seemed very nervous and had consid.
cradle trouble getting through with the
ceremony. We took three rooms at
the house where we were married and
lived there until discovered that he
had a wife at Winslow. | wrote her
letter and she came here to see me.
moved here and got employment at
the Hubbs' laundry. where | have been
working every day since, Everybody
has been very kind TO me and I am
very grateful"
NO, sir; he never bought me
cents worth Of clothing during the two
months we lived together" was the an
swer to question. Miss Petty also
said that she did not have Avilla ar
rested. but thar her father. who is
member OF the Workmen's lodge,
wrote 20 parties here, who did.
The case will come up In United
States Commissioner Writings court
Wednesday.