Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tutaki a Whitaker ki te kaitoi a Xavier Martinez i te wharekai o Coppa i San Francisco. I tana kitenga i te kaupapa tino pai, ka whakairoiro ia ia, ka tiimata tana raupapa Elsie. I muri i te
I te ruu o te tau 1906, ka neke a Martinez ki Piedmont. I etahi marama i muri mai, ka tono ia ki tetahi Whitaker 18-tau-te pakeke, kua oti nei i a ia te oati ki te marena i etahi atu tangata e wha, he hoa o tona papa. I a ia e whiriwhiri ana i a Martinez, ka mea ia, "I whakatau ahau ki te whiriwhiri i te tangata e homai ana ki ahau te oranga tino whakamere". Ko Martinez, e 37 ona tau, e rua noa iho ona tau i te papa o Elsie, a Herman Whitaker. I marenatia te tokorua i te Oketopa 1907.