Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
DASHING
BL0N DE
EL0PES
Wedding Supposed to
Have Occurred at
Tia Juana
Sends Card with No Post
mark but That Of
Los Angeles
Woman Says Her Pretty Face Was
Cause Of Breaking UP Home,
Woman Says Her Pretty Face Was
Cause Of Breaking Up Home,
but Does Not Blame
Girl

Miss Alta Earl, % years of age.
dashing blonde with baby stare in
her deep blue eyes, who has been prom
inent in Boyle Heights society for sew
eral seasons, has nysteriously disap-
peared from her home at 241S Folsom
street, and the only word which has
been received from her since last Fri
day night is picture postal card ad-
dressed to her grandmother, which
reads:
John and were married Saturday
at 1925. Will you forgive us? Don
worry. Will write. Alta"
The John mentioned is supposed to be
John t. Kenney. an agent for the Gold.
en- State Realty company, sos South
Spring street, with, whom Miss Earl
lad been very friendly Miss Earl has
been employed in various capacities in
this city during the last five years. and
at the time of her disappearance was
night telephone operator in down
town office.
The postal card bears picture of
the caves at La Jolla, and the evident
intention was to make 1t appear that
the couple had eloped to Tia Juana,
MEXICO, a. MT. heHllSy was ohiJ
Gently divorced here and could not be
again married in this state before one
year had elapsed.
The card bears only one postmark,
however, showing 1t was mailed in Los
Angeles, October %, at about II o'clock,
and this has led her friends to believe
that the young woman is in the city.
Man Disappears Also
At the office where Mr.. Kenney is
employed it was said that he lift there
Friday afternoon and had not since
returned. The members of the COM
pany say they expect him back at any
time but profess ignorance of his pres
ent whereabouts and also of his mar
riage. He is 56 years old, and his for-
mer wife at present lives at ColegroVe.
With the disappearance of Miss Earl
the story of disrupted family in which
the young woman is alleged to be the
central figure has come to light:
Friday afternoon of last week Mrs.
Harry White, wife of a claim agent for,
the Western Lumber company, was
called to the telephone at her home,
1o6 North Hope street, and asked by
woman, who refused to give her name,
to meet her at one of the department.
stores down town, where information, of
wrongdoing OH the part of her husband
would be given her. Mrs. White at
rrst refused TO listen to the woman, but
" hen told that her husband had pre-
rared to leave the city in company with
a girl. consented to meet the woman.
When she did 50 she was told that
her informants name was Mrs. John
Kenney -anC that the young woman
with whom White was infatuated was
l-lss Alta Earl, who had formerly been
employed as stenograDher by Mrs.
Kenpey's husband, and is said to have
broken up their home, causing Kenney
to seek a divorce.
Believed Man Single
Mrs. White was Informed that her
husband had made all arrangements
for leaving the city the following night
with Miss Earl, and she was taken tol
several friends of the young woman
who told her of the attentions her
husband had been paying the stem
ographer, and also to her husbands
OF where she was told he had not
? I'd but it was thought probable
=. sould.
Mrs. White then visited Miss Earls
home, where she was told the young
woman had left for the office where she
was then employed as night telephone
operator. on making inquiries Mrs.
White learned that her husband had
been frequent visitor at the house
and that no one there supposed he was
married. Mrs Earl stated she was
CpHHuenI HST BTdHuuduBHtef tnOuBHt ne
was single, and professed great sur
prise on hearing who her visitor was.
After leaving the house Mrs. White
returned to her own home and awaited
her husband. On his arrival she ac-
oused him of the things she had learned |
and demanded an explanation
Harry at first refused to give me
any satisfaction" she said when speak
ing of the case, "but at last sprang up
from where he was sitting and told |
me It was all true: that he loved Alta
Earl and had paid her attentions. He
then packed his trunk and left the
house and last Saturday sent for 1t,
telephoned him once and he refused
to give me any satisfaction. We have
been married for two years and in all /
that time we have never had a cross
word and never have l had occasion
to doubt him.
1T has surprised me greatly TO learn
that Miss Earl and MIR. Kenney have
been married, as / had been led to
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