The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17
Divorced Spouse Declares That
San MateO Attorney Prom
iSed TO Remarry Her
Secret Wedding to Mrs. Kast
Reveals Story of Revolver
4 Play at BeresfOrd
Fear of Violence on Account of
Broken Vows Forbade Her
aiding of NuptiaIs

= GOD reason had Joseph J Bullock.
district attorney for san Mateo
county, for keeping secret his
uooing of and sensational wedding TO
Mrs Charlotte Van der Naillen Kast
former wife of Eugene Il Kast of san
francisco. according TO the declara-
tons made by Mrs. Bullock No. ] last
r ght. She said that Bullock had re-
roatedly promised TO remarry her and
that on discovering him false 10 his
promise she had drawn a revolver and
threatened 10 shoot both him and Mrs
hast. Under the circumstances, she
said. secrecy was the best policy Bull
lock could pursue to keep intact the
peace and happiness OF his household
WOman'S Trust Misplaced
This is the end OF my dealings with
hin.~ said Mrs. Bullock, who is living
ct e22S Parker street Berkeley. I
have trusted him numberless times
only to realize that my trust has been
misplaced She then told of her mar
riaEe and the subsequent events, the
whole forming as peculiar a chapter in
love as ever graced LIES pages.
After we had been married eight
wears" she said I found out that he
was paying attentions 10 Mrs Isabel
Brittan. I left our home at Beresford
b and took up my residence with my
mother in Berkeley. A short time later
he came TO me saying that he would
drop Mrs. Britain and believed him
and went back TO his house.
T discovered. however. that he had
- 70 me and had no intention Of
Tossing his attentions to the other
woman. again left him and he again
came back TO me, promising TO behave
limself
Divorced for Desertion
i believed him and we became friend
r. bat prior 10 this he had secured q
divorce on theg round of desertion. I
lid not contest the suit, feeling too
miserable TO fight him. After the di-
rorce we became friendly, as I have
said and he then promised TO remarry
me-. one day ] picked up a paper and
discovered that he had married Mrs.
Britain
Mrs. Bullock said that on receiving
rhis news she went to Redwood City to
he near her former husband, intimating
that she could find what little satisfac-
lion there was in store for her by
knowing that her continual presence
would remind Bullock Of his broken
promises. on Mrs. Brittan's death, after
TWO years Of married life, she said that
Bullock once again sought her.
TPromises of, Remarriage
II loved the man. she said. and
when he came to me again I had hoped
that the past would be forgotten and
that we two could finish our lives to-
gether lie told me he would remarry
me. and on the strength OF his prom
ises I visited his home at Beresford and
he came and stayed at mine in Berke-
ley. Suddenly ! discovered there was
another woman on the horizon in Mrs
Kast. and ultimately affairs grew from
rad TO worse. till last September
found Mrs. Kast at his Beresford home
IT became so angry that I picked up
q revolver and wanted to shoot them
both. I said ] was going to do so. but
lie took the weapon away from me and
gaeifed me. Even then he made the
usual promises-but they were like all
the rest
FaIsify 'CruSheS Love
IT pinned all my faith in him He
< was the father Of my children and
somehow or the other I believed that
in the end he would leave the other
women and keep his promises to me.
His marriage to Mrs. Kast closes
everything between US. have put up
with about as much as woman can,
and the years of broken promises, Of
lying and falseness have crushed out
what love I haJ for him"
Bullocks wedding to Mrs. Kast was
kept secret for'three months. He mar
ried her three days after she secured
her fnaI decree Of divorce from Kast.
and installed her in his Beresford
aiome. No announcement was made OF
the marriage and there was consider
able questioning as TO why he should
have been so secretive about the joy
raj event. It was not known that he
was rather uncomfortably caught in
the meshes Of his matrimonial entan-
clements and that on account Of the
attitude taken by Mrs. Bullock No.
wisdom forbad any heralding Of the
nuptials.