The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-20
DESERTED
At ALT AR,
HUSBAND
KILLS SELF
Temperamental Modesto PIANO.
pio, D. C. Law Scholar.
Leaves Death Note.


A bullet from a suicides revolver
yesterday afternoon annulled the
marriage of Modesto Panopio, which
his child-bride today claimed was
fraudulent, and brought to tragic
end the struggle of the young
Filipino to get a law education in
q Washington institution.
Bride Asks Annulment.
Ignorant of the fact that her young
husband took his life yesterday after
noon in Philadelphia, Mrs. Grace c.
Panopio, the seventeen-year-old bride.
a Washington girl, today filed . psu
ton in tho District Supreme Court
asking for an annulment Of her mar
riage to Panopio.
The court action furnished the p on
able cause OF the suicide, altho, gh
Panapio left a note saying:
|" II will shoot myself at o'cieck No
ono win know the reason but me Siia
Sen. temperamental, and
dream ,anopio never recovered
from ,hock of seeing his bride
of a hours tear their marriage
certified C at into bits and huri them
After he marriage ceremony last
Wednesday in Philadelphia. ths
couple returned to Washington. At
the terminal station, tho child.wtfe
destroyed the certificate and de
clared that she would not live with
him. Stunned by her act, he stood on
the curb at the station while she
took a car and went home without
him.
Borrowing money from friends.
Panopio returned to Philadelphia.
Lured to America.
The lure Of America and his
dream that he had a message for
the world proved the undoing CT
Panopio.
Panopio clung to the belief that
he had a message that would bring
about a closer Brotherhood between
America and the Philippine Islands.
After coming to Washington three
years ago, he was convinced that a
knowledge of the law was essential
in carrying out his ideal. He became
a night student in tho Georgetown
University law school.
The latest Job held by Panopio In
Washington was In the assignment
division of the United States Patent
Office.
The pay at the Patent Office was
sufficient for the young mans needs
and Panopio would have continued to
pursue the even tenor of his ways,
but-he fell in love.
To get married would require a
greater income. The Congressional
appropriation for Patent Office en-
ployes did not provide for an increase
In the section where Panopio worked.
He left the city, going to New York
to seek more lucrative employment,
failed, returning to Washington and
his sweetheart.
Life was growing more complicated
every day for Panopio. According to
his wifes petition, filed today, Panopio
persuaded her to go N~rtn him to Phila-
delphia on Wednesday of last week.
A good job awaited her in Philadel-
phia, Panopio told the girl
Girls Trust Abused.
Without funds and having implicit
confidence in the young forclgner.
the girl secured a room at the Phtla.
delphia Young Women's Christian
noooSiotioh oiiu ny appointment met
Panopio expecting to be taken to her
new Job.
There was no Job awaiting her.
She appealed to Panopio for funds
to pay her expenses or to return to
her home In Washington. he refused
unless she first consented to marry
him.
Being without funds or friends and
In strange city, the girl saws she
became excited and frightened and
finally consented to go through
marriage ceremony with him.
The girl became the bride Of Pan.
opio at high noon on Wednesday,
August 10.
Panopio and his bride came fmme-
diately to Washington. The scene at
the Terminal Station when the bride
destroyed the marriage certificate
was the beginning of the end.
Some hours after the incident Pano-
pio went to the home of the girl.
but she would not see him. He made
repeated efforts TO see her, but she
rep,'lsed him. and swore she would
never live with him.
Keeping his secret to himself.
Panopio went TO l., V. Carmach, chief
clerk OF the Bureau OF Insuiar
Affairs OF the War Department and
Ssnopio's friend, and borrowed 40,
he secured small sums from oN ax