Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-16
The Rennett DIvorce Case.

The Pill Hans side Of the Objectionable sires
Mary Character.
The Bennett divorce case still rules the roast
in the New Haven newspapers. Nothing is
talked about or read about but Bennett and
This own Mary Ann" eve suppose there's an
Ann to her name)
We recolect to have read, a long time ago,
the troubles and trials of the "Bennetts abroad"
"a novel0 but they were not circumstance to
the BENEFITS at home. judging from what we
have already published and the following adj
additional. We read that
DIR. Bennett took the stand and testified as
follows:
was always for trying to make peace in the
house, and one way to secure it. l thought
would be, and the best way, to call upon our
Heavenly Father by the way of prayer; we al
ways had number of bibles in the house. and
one of them would take and read chapter in
in the morning, get my little children around me
and my wife, after which would raise my voice
heayenward for protection; one or two mornings
went on this way; then got two little church
music books-Congregatio l thiDk-and after
we had read chapter would invite my wife
to sing tune before prayer; she refused to do
it, and after that she refused entirely to meet me
IN the morning for prayer, and the little children
would follow her away, and this ended the mat.
that she does not meet me was on account of
my swearing Immediately after prayers; there is
no truth whatever in the assertion; as to my
using improper language, doubt whether there
is any one III this room that has heard me use
prolane language for the past six months, for
the past year, for the past two years; as to the
swearing and scolding before the children; she
very well knows that have always told her,
when she was angry at me, or fretting at me
before the children, that begged her to stop, if
for no other reason than for the childrens sake.
One morning as came from down town, |
think L was coming up from down town, as
came into the hall door-by the by our bedroom
door is within one step from the head of the
stairs, step or half will fetch you to the bed
room door-as took the first step or two up
stairs, as came into the hall door, saw a
flash oflight from my bedroom door, there being
no lights around only from the DOORS / saw the
flash of light from the door, and then the person
OF man coming down the stairs, and met about
hall way; he goes down, and by the time he
gets out the hall door, am to the door-the
bedroom door; try to open the door, but it is
locked; Mrs. Bennett opens the door carefully.
and just looked through little ways, she having
nothing but her underskirts on; being rather
confused, she says, "That you-why! was you
there ten or fifteen minutes ago." she says that
she locked it because the children bothered her,
and this gentleman that went out of the room
was Joseph Sheldon.
girls sew in my bedroom, and have ordered them
out great many times, but they would come
back again; have told them if they would not
go out-though told them where they could
go, there were plenty rooms down stairs, the
kitchen, the dining-room, the Sittng-room, the
two parlors, there, if they did not go down.
should certainly arrange my dress as thought
proper in their presence, and anything else that
saw proper to do; they would go down at FIRST,
and after little while come back again; Mrs. B.
would tell them, do not mind mc-to stay there
Just as much as they were mind to; she told
them this before me, and she would tell the ser
wants frequently not to pay any attention TO what
| said, and if said anything about the orders
not to pay any attention 10 what l said, but to
get what they were mind to.
She says she has frequently asked me for
money, and she certainly has, and l have very,
very frequently, very often given 1t to her-but
she certainly was not satisfied at that, and told
me if did not let her have it sometimes when
have refused, there was one way of getting it,
and she could adopt that way-that She would
take a certain way, with young fellows; she has
often told her power, her influence, and that
way was that which was in the power of wom-
an, and 1t was, and she would raise the devil
with me; she invites from New York, from this
house of Mrs. N, one of them, a woman that
was kept by q broker down town. as she told
me-Mrs Gill gave the name the other day:
she invites her to our hose, she stays there one
VI tWo hlEltSi oeIleSe II was the next day or
the day or two after, two men followed her up,
strangers to me, One of these men was mar
Tied man, she told me, (''she' means Mrs. Ben
nett) hut paid this woman'S expense, Mrs
Gill's,) at the house of Mrs. Newman There
was another one of bad character from this
house, that Mrs. Bennett invited up, and this
one she has sent in my bedroom, to influence
me from my innocent ways.
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