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Show Deserted Wife i Los Angeles Salt Lake Newspaper Man Figures Jn a Sensational Episode on tho Const. W. D. Van Blnrconi, formerly a wcll-kuuwti wcll-kuuwti Now York newspaper man. and nn active member of tho 13. P. O. R. Ilpures.ln a sensational episode which Is rulutcd as follows in a dispatch from Loa Angeles, under date of October 30: " T can't be good, r want to bo bad. 1 .ihall 1o bail. My brother and sisters have nlways said that J was tho black sheep of tlie family. Now. I will provu to theni that 1 am. Good-bye, now go homo and wait for inc.' "These- words wi-ro spoken by A . D. Van Blarcom. Jr.. to his wife lost Mon-dnp Mon-dnp night an ho helped her Into tho llttlo white chnrlot that goes up Angels' Kllght. Sim has not sjjimi him slnco. 'Mv llfo has become a blank. It Is as though J had run against a stone wall. I shnll commit suicide," said Mrs. Van Blarcom throuch her tears In her apart-monts apart-monts at the Alta Vlsto on South Bunker l Illl avonue this afternoon. She would have killed herself but for the Intervention Interven-tion of friends. Mrs. Van Blarcom believes be-lieves ther Is n woman in the caso, but doos not kpcnv what has happened, and still threatnns siiloklc "Tho Van Blarcoms worn married on Christmas dayt In Salt Iako City, ard come to Los Angolos by way of Portland and San Francisco. "Van Blarcom ostensibly camo to southern California for his health, lib secured employment on a local paper and was employed as a reporter at tho time of his disappearance, lie was divorced from his first wife in September nnd married Mrs. Emlllo Minor three months lator. Mrs. Minor had been divorced four years wirllor. Her family Is highly respected re-spected In WYomlng, and she Is a painter of china of ability. "Van Blarcom left his wlfo In destitute circumstances and pawned her .gold watch on tho day of his departure. Ho vas a member, of the order of Klks, and a subscription has been taken up by that body to aid tho dosorted wife to return to Salt Lake." |