The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-08-31

foeation with people.
Picture. II YOU can. Just before the
rise IF the curtain when the music
has stopped and the place Is silent.
the sight Of a tai. bread shonldered
man standing in the center aisle
pointing Dramatically A. pretty
auburn haired woman seated near
by and shouting.
That woman there with the red
hair l. my wife she left me and Is
living with that man seated next
a. her
~fook ~ her. folks She Is now
nothing bat = common woman Of
fhe sfreft"
)his is what occurred AZ the
fantaEes theater Wednesday night.
igEt before the curtain rang up on
the last show Of the evening.
The sound o. the mans voice
and his sensational charge came
Ike a thanderhols 20 the astonlshsd
audience. Al first many believed
81 70 Be hoax. q prelude TO some
act 70 appear on the stage.
But when the auban haired
woman's escort. also tall and
hrawny hut with an empty sleeve
Tapping where his right arm once
was. rose swiftly 20 his feet and
charged upon the accuser. tie audit
enee vas IN an hproaf.
Men spFang between the beIiig-
ereuts. and eluug desperately 10 the
one-armed man. who vas doing his
best 10 pull a revolver from his hip
pocket. The Infatuated husband was
also fighting vieiously to free him
self IN order TO wreak vengeance
on tie head cf his rival.
Finaly peace vas restored
Fhe husband NaB dragged onto
ssr street. while the woman with
the asrsuea hair and her ous-armed
c0ffI1rnhnn respaed their seats
The music struck ND a lively air.
f'he performance began and the act
ors Of the life drama IN the audience
shrasrk hack in n futile attempt to
escspe the hungry gianees Of a NOR
bid thrsug
0n.ssie the angry husband was
eaFf slnsala frosters 20 Alex Pan
tas.e@
shsptiv afterwards the much dis
cusssd couple left the fheater. and
phe one-asmcd man also told the
theasTisal man how Il happened
Thursday morning a Star man
called on the man who 80 bitterly
denounced lis wife before a thou
sasns pcepfp.
Pa Is -. d woodard. and con
dncas a coal aud wood business az
user First.
Md
Here Is hls story. given In
broken voice Of soTrow
HOW ONE WOMAN WRECKED
Ny LIFE.
Si~%eeu years aEo | married the
woman via nos bears my name.
I asn her third husband.
or the fFEt two. one committed
sacf4e and the other Is now a
hopeless drunkard.
When we were married she was
net only very pretty. very dainty
modest and charming, but she had
the most beautiful black hair God
ever gave q woman.
Whea we came 20 Seattle 7 gave
her e. 900 which she placed In the
tNhA W MfE NHA NNHHHf-
Later she sent money 10 this
present admirer ~ hers. whose
name Is Frank McCulloch. and he
oanse 10 Seattle n was then that
she beRnn 20 neglect me shamefuliy
shr would stay out all night. and
tel me that she was stopping with
n woman friend. On May she
lex me for good and went 10 live
Witt this man McCmloch NJ the
Hotel semeca. First and Seneca.
Ny Eeaey paid sor that room
ana tirejr living
No vssnaer when I saw them In
the theater that ! lost my self con
troll
D--n her. she has wrecked my
iHsi
Five years Of my life have been
wasted IN an effort to find Joy IN
her cens@anionship.
And now that the story must
come out, let the truth be known.
Yrs. Woodland Is living at 107
Maynard. and In an adjoining room
lives the man whom Woodland
charges with having stolen his wife
from him.
when a Star reporter called AZ the
residence Thursday morning he WAS
told that Mrs Woodard was too iil
70 see anyone and referred 70 a
Mrs. Beitmau. Of Chicago. a sister
of the authenticated woman.
McCulh5eh was also present dur
Ing the first interview.