A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > Los Angeles http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=573 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=37663 Submitted by: SherylRodda Article Title: Los Angeles Times Article Date: October 5 1893 Article Description: Says It Is Blackmail - series of aritcles related to the Green adultery case - Oct 5 through Dec 19, 1893 Article Text: What a Man Arrested for Adultery Says of the Charge. John L. Green, a man of about 30 years of age, was arrested yesterday and taken before Justice Austin, where he was arraigned on a charge of adultery, after which he was lodged in the County Jail. Green was married eight years ago to Sadie Heryford, daughter of Thomas Heryford, who was then living at a place known as Elizabeth Lake, in the northern part of the county. He afterward removed to San Francisco, where he remained for some time. He later on went to Chicago, leaving his wife at the city on the bay. He sent her money occasionally for a time, but, so the story goes, he finally stopped doing this, and his wife was obliged to return to the home of her parents, where she has been remaining ever since. Meanwhile Green had been paying attention to Miss M. B. Watson, the daughter of the landlady at his lodging-house, and had won her affections from another young man paying court to her. A letter written afterward by this young lady to the abandoned wife states that he at first represented himself as a widower, but that at a later time he admitted his wife was living. He said, however, that she had married him for his money, and he expected to get a divorce from her soon. The young man finally came to Los Angeles again, and was seen in company with a third woman, who is supposed to have gone to Chicago. This is the woman with whom it is charged that he has lived in adultery. It is stated, on the part of the prosecution, that Green claim to have a divorce from his first wife, which fact would clear him from prosecution on the charge. It is also said that if he has such divorce it must have been obtained through perjury, for which he can be convicted. If it can be shown that he has married another woman then there is a case of bigamy. Green was seen at the County Jail by a Times reporter. He said that he did not wish to say much about the affair just at present. He would state, however, that the whole thing was a scheme to extort money from him. The preliminary examination in the case has been set for next Wednesday. Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1893, page 2 Green Adultery Case The case of John L. Green, charged with adultery, was called before Justice Austin, but was continued one week on the statement of the prosecution that two of the people’s witnesses had disappeared. Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1893, page 8 The Green Adultery Case The adultery case against J. L. Green occupied all of yesterday in Justice Austin’s court. All of the morning session and a large portion of the afternoon was consumed in disposing of the necessary preliminaries and securing a jury satisfactory to counsel on both sides. Only three witnesses were examined, and the testimony developed contained but few facts of importance further that what has already been published. It will be remembered that it is alleged that Green did, some time in September, live in open and notorious adultery with a certain woman in Los Angeles, when, at the same time, his wife, formerly Miss Heryford, was at the residence of her father near Elizabeth Lake, which place is close to the northern boundary of the county. Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1893, page 8 Convicted of Adultery. The adultery case against John L. Green was concluded in Justice Austin’s court yesterday morning. A number of witnesses for the prosecution were examined, and it was brought out in the testimony that Green had been living at the house of a Mrs. Hopkinson with a woman he represented to be his wife. The defense did not offer any testimony, and did not cross-examine the witnesses. After argument, the case was submitted to the jurk (sic.), and that body, after being out for about ten minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty. Green was ordered to appear tomorrow for sentence. It is not improbable that the case will be appealed to the Superior Court. Los Angeles Times, December 19, 1893, page 4 Mrs. Sadie Green was granted a decree by Judge Smith yesterday morning, divorcing her from J. L. Green, who submitted to a default therein, upon the ground of adultery. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com