Show FLEES WITH WIH WIFE WHO IS A LEPER Aged but Devoted Couple Go Gov GoI v I to Mexico Officials Will Wi Not Disturb Them FRIENDS TELL OF ROMANCE Relate How Hero of Two Wars Marred Married Woman I Knowing Knowing Knowing Know Know- ing of Her Affliction Los Ang les Aug Aus AuG 8 Knowing that his wIto was vas wa suffering from lepro leprosy Brigadier General David K Wardwell retired a hero o of two wars ars secretly and in the te nl night ht took his hi wife wHo from tho the contagious ward In th this tho county hospital and hn ha has secluded d tho woman in Mexico where ho wilt will wi mako his hla hiso o homo home with wih her Greater Creator lovo hath no man for a woman than the general said paid Supervisor Super Super- visor 1 For C C. E. E Patterson Paterson recently In commenting upon the motive motivo which prompted prompt d the tho soldier to escape Into Mexico with his hia wJ wife No attempt will wi bo be mode to apprehend hend hond them by tho authorities s Both according to officials of or tho county ho hospital threatened threatened to commit aul- aul cido cdo Ir if thy they were wore not not allowed to spend the remainder of or their years yearn In each others other's com company pan even Ir If It i in isolation Three days before Mrs Mr Ward Vard VardI well I a aone at ono one time timo a a. a beautiful woman wa was re ro- ro moved from tom the contagious ward In thc tho to county count hospital Tho rho next next mornIng morning morn morn- ing an opened window and a n noto not thrown carelessly upon tho window rill FIll l told th tho thi of or tho to woman womans fl flight ht Wf VA will wm not bo ho molested In Int t Mexico MexIco MexIco-It It was there where wo were married and wo 0 will be bo allowed to toI I wi I dlo here together Officials FimI ud Xo No A cursory investigation showed shoed that tha tho couple got aboard a late lato night train for Mexico and the tho to searchers r then abandoned the attempt to t locate o the tho woman When supervisors and count county he health officials were told of or tho to circumstances they made mado no comment com com- ment rent found no fault taul It Is tho best thing that could have nii 1 nn T o am glad ie the i general e i- i ise se secured d his wife She was tho mans man's wife He married her with tho the knowledge that that she had leprosy ho he wishes to dlo die with wih her I Do Down n at In tho the neIghborhood neIghbor neIghbor- I hood of or the te Soldiers Soldiers' Soldier home tho the love loveI I story oC or the te couple is well won known The tender devotion of or the aged soldier to his wife when she dally daIly showed signs of or the dr dread ad disease slowly I creeping over o her form torm endeared the man to te those in the neighborhood where the i couple resided t Although Mrs Mrs Wardwell often oren asked aked that she be bo allowed to give herself up to the authorities and asked to betaken bo be taken Into Mexico by her husband the sturdy studY little Ito general refused to allow alow lt It Jt Fear that the te federal quarantine officers would isolate Isolato the woman kept kept tho the general from giving his permission Fear that tha the disease would be bo de der detected detected de- de and she spirited away without r his I his knowledge led the tho to woman to a ask k to bo be allowed to give Ivo herel herself up Given Up 4 Four weeks ago however Mrs rC Ward- Ward well s.-well resolved resoled to give her herself cl Into tho the thoi i custody 04 of tho health h officers LeavI Leaving Leav- Leav I ing tho vino n o c cottage a at Sawtelle Saw Saw- toe telle the tho woman came to lo Los Angeles Tho The great mental strain she Iho ho underwent caused her to faint taint when within a block of or tho the police polca station staton and she was waa carried into the tho hospital It I was waa there that Police Surgeon Wright diagnosed her hor case and eho she was sent I to the tho count county hospital With lh tears In his eyes tho the aged general hen gen general gen gen- eral eal pleaded with wih tho the health officers to tn be bo allowed the tho privilege of ot taking the woman oman to Mexico the tho to country where whore sho was born but they oro ob ob- ob i durate durato Wardwell stated that he was suffering front from leprosy but bUl an examination exam exam- showed that no ho was not not It I was then It Is believed that tho secret trip Into Mexico was planned Yesterday In neighbors talked freely of tho the couple an official of ot the Soldiers Soldiers' home borne showing tho the records tee rec which General Wardwell won In iii tho the service Eighteen years cars a ago o said aid tho the man General Wardwell then thon lieu lieu- leu- leu tenant colonel colon l. l resided In Cananea Mexico Ho lie had bad previously served In tho the Civil war been the hero In tho the battie battlo bat- bat tie tc of ot Mills Mis been rewarded publicly by Governor William Claflin Clafin for tor his meritorious service and commended com com- 0 mended ht ft t. t by th tho the President 1 of ot tho the United w u Marry a i la Ia Mexico I It I W was there In Mexico after no he e had served sered In tho the Mexican arm army against Maximillian that tho the general mot met met Mr Mrs then Miss isabel babel Col Cole Col Tho The woman was dark and beautiful her hor relatives were among on J the tho beet st people of C tho the country her education t f faultiest f Fot Fo two years sho Iho nursed a broth- broth cr cr er u afflicted with leprosy In a a. futile attempt to save lave hin life Ure a It lt 1 was wa then that tho the general mar- mar nod her ber with Ith the knowledge that she Bho 1 would some somo day dy have havo tho the dread dreaded d dis- dis case cue and a n short time later they came camo cameI i to California alifornia Hero here they spent tho the thoi i j last eight years car an anA It was hero the tho 1 first rt symptoms of t tho the disease ware noted Since that time tho they have lived in constant dread of or discovery I J believe o bele the general generl wished to nave have havethe ave tho the disease himself I I I belove he ho prayed for It St Investigation shows that General 1 I was wu captain captin of or company F. F Fifth regiment at tho the battle batto of or Ga Gaines Gaines' nos Mills and later promoted to leu tenAnt ten ten- Ant colonel At the tho battle batte of ot Gaines Gaines' I Mills is ho bo led tho the Union army to victory after four commanding officers had hadI I been beon killed Alter After the W war ho served ered In Mexico j i and ad nd was wa-a wa later appointed postmaster at Ariz |