The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-12
ELOPERS seen
IN SALT LAKE
Figure in Texas Romance Is in
the City With Rum
away Wife.
PROMINENT IN Ell PAS0
ACTOR is RECOGNIZED BY FOR
MER FRIEND.
PROMINENT IN Ell PAS0

man of the Washington Park Stock
company, which has been playing at
FL Paso. Tex, and who is alleged to
have eloped with Mrs. Virginia Carroll,
wife of w. B. Carroll of Ell Paso, was
in the city yesterday, and was seen in
Salt Lake yesterday by a former ac-
ouaintance. The woman with him an
swers the description of Mrs. Carroll.
The story of the elopement of the ac-
tor and the rich merchants wife was
first made public in FL Paso Tuesday,
when Carroll, who is the head of big
electrical firm in the Texas city, filed
suit, for divorce, IN which he charged
his wife with having run away with
| Whitaker.
According to the formal complaint
filed by Carroll, his wife became enam-
ored of Whitaker when the latter
played the sanity character of John
Storm in 1.-The Christian" While
storm" resisted the temptations of
the world and buried himself in a re-
treat, Whitaker did so only for the
few hours in which he trod the boards.
While John Storm" relegated the
pleasures of living to the forgotten
past, Whitaker lived in them daily.
Story In Complaint.
Whitaker and Mrs. Carroll are al
legged in the complaint to have left Ell
Paso on the night of Aug. 8, and their
destination was not learned by the n
ragged husband. IS soon as he had con-
WINGED himself that his wife had for
gotten what she had promised him
when she took his name, he promptly
| filed an action against her in the di-
VOrce courts.
(Nar., 81. ~, II
| that she wanted TO go to Detroit Mich
to visit with her mother. and that he
consented TO the trip. He declares that
instead of going to the home of her par
ent, she left Ell Paso with the actor
As soon as Carroll became suspicious
he began al investigation which
! brought out interesting developments
One of these was the discovery of a
note which was shown him, which was
directed TO Carroll and which he 0e-
clares is in her handwriting. This lat
ter is signed with Mrs. Carrol's maiden
name, and bears her monogram.
Breathing affection and alteration of
the most torrid character in every lire
for the actor, the note enraged Carroll.
who lost no time in applying to the
courts for relief
Text of Torrid Note.
The note which caused all the trouble
is as follows:
Happy shall be the time when I may
lay aside all pretense and l shall be
yours completely. A little quatrain
comes To my mind of Garrison's, per-
haps you are familiar-yOu should be
with it, for you enjoy all good, clean
things:
"'Only four lines, yet when all is told.
Much tinSel is outWeighed by little
gold.
Love is a tiny word, no doubt you see
1t holds all life, all joy mow) for me-
1.-THE last three words are my impro-
vising, but you will please accept it.
Go rest now, my darling. Meet me
tomorrow morning with a dear smile
and just manage to whisper once to me
in the course of the morning L love
you l shall be at the card party until
late, probably until l o'clock, but shall
think of you with every breath 1 need
just few words dear. to brighten UP
this afternoon. Yours,
CsigneO VIRGINIA"
Man Is Matinee Idol.
Whitaker has gained desirable rep
utatiOn in California as an actor. His
father it is believed, is a surgeon at
the Mare Island navy yard in San
the alleged elopement, went to Ell PaSo
after the San Francisco disaster. He is
strikingly handsome man, and was
much of a matinee idol'' among the
women.
Mrs. Carroll was a leader in Ell Paso
society, and gave some of the largest
entertainments of the city. She was
prominent in the ''Women's club" and
other social organizations. She is
handsome woman, and possesses great
personal charm.
Ell Paso was shocked by the an
nouncement of the elOpement, but no
more than by other developments which
came close on the heels of the first
sensation. FL Paso society learned aft
er the elopement story became public
that Mrs. Carroll was before her mar
riage circus actress. employed with
the Orrin's circus in Mexico. She and
her husband met while both were in
the circus business, she as a performer
and he as chief electrician. They we're
married and went to FL Paso, where
Carroll entered the electrical business
and made considerable money.
Whittaker's acquaintance, who met
him here with Mrs. Carroll, says that
the actor showed great hesitancy with
regard TO recognizing his former friend,
and erdeaVored to avoid him.