Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-03
MEXICAN WOMAN CHAINED IN A SHACK EVERY DAY BY A
 JEALOUS HUSBAND.
LADY WEARS IRON GIRDLE
Senor Pinea Adopts Ancient Method Of Insuring Constancy, But Learns That # You Chain Up Wife Away She Will Go.

In the good old days, when every gentleman was @ rowing ironclad and the road to fame and fortune was filtered with hardware shed by the conquered; when the best man was he who poked his armored contem- pOrary off his horse with @ big stick and shelled him with an aX, or picked him out of his casing with @ dagger; in the halcyOn days of chivalry, the knight who left his happy home to go crusading for few years in Pal estiue sometimes lacked entire conf donce in the durability of his wife $ virtue or the cOustancy of his mis- tress There were "sOulafIinities" in those old days and they made trouble for the simple, rugged men of var Wherefore the knight baron, earl or king who went a grailing sometimes sought to keep the lady true by in ducing her to wear a girdle of pecul far fashion until his return, and the key to that locked girdle he carried on a chain hung from his neck inside his steel shirt The "girdle of Venus was much worn five hundred years ago, but it is out Of faehiOn now
 But the device did not always serve the purpose for which it was intended. Comes to the castle, where the lone some lady abides, a young man with soulful eyes, long curls and a reedy tenor voice-Gaily, the troubadOur. 4 soul affinity episode ensues, and the medieval philosopher thereupon in vents the sage proverb: Love laughs at lOcksmiths."
 Francisco Pinea, Mexican section hand at Glamis on the desert, rer- haps had read some ancient chron- icles of the days of chiyalry Or per haps he just figured out the scheme for himself Francisco's wife is young and comedy, and Francisco seems to be of jealous disposition. When he goes to his work on the railroad, he chains the lady fair fast in his rail road-tie bungalow. That is what he has been doing ever since the first of July, and it has been pretty warm at Glamis turing a part of the elapsed tune.
 1t was not Q wandering minstrel who rescued the chained lady of Clam is. The wife of the section foreman did it with a backsmith's file last Tuesday while Francisco was away, and the lady fled to Yuma, where she hoped to find her people. Failing to discover her relatives Sonora Pinea went. to the Wilson house and made known her trouble. She had been freed from the shackles that bound her to her happy home, but she still wore a padlocked chain about her waist. with attachments of a more or less ingenious and effective design similar to the device of the crusaders.
 Senor Pinea discovering the desc 1ation of his hearth hiked after the fleeing fair one and landed in Yuma one train behind her. He fell into the hands of a deputy sheriff, and Justice Joe Redondo sent. him to jail for seven days on a charge of vag- rancy, which charge seems more con- venient than accurate when applied to a railroad section hand It serves to hold Senor Pinea where he can be found, however, and at request of the Yuma officers the Sheriff of Imperial county has taken up the case.
 District Attorney Eshleman on secured a warrant for Pin oa's arrest on the charge of false i'm and Under Sheriff Buck went on the noon train to Yuma to endeayOr to secure the prisoner