The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-03-26
AWFUL DIVORCE CASE-SENSATION TES
TlMONY.
FULL rHoSOGRAPHIC REPORT.
"Bini up my wounds
sit:itt, ,ua tunthur husband -

Plaintiff on the perpcndicular-Maiden
name Tenpenny, [tittering, married name
Nopenny, [smiles,l married at sixteen,
[grins. Married 3Oth January, 1850,
First child child born October, 1850, laugh
ter;1 three days after husband wanted to
kiss me, [shudders.l five days after wanted
to hug me, testimony reserved for private
examination, pulled me out of bed, put me
under the bed, [great laughter,l kissed the
the nurse, rubbed my back with the coal
shovel, Suppressed laughter,] shambeed my
head with soft soap, [sensation;] poured q
quart of castor oil down my throat through
a funnel, [boisterous laug ghter;] threw a
backing brush at my head-testim OBJ
jected to, on the ground that the witness
State to prove defendant never owned q
blacking brush. Objection was sustained.
Counsel here knocked defendants legal ad-
wiser, with an argument, and the case pro.
cecded. Spring Of 'j4 upset large jar Of
preserved cherries on baby's bcad-lhere
the bench's center gravity was upset and
glasses ratified. Made the baby swallow a
tallow candle, [roars of laughter.l Wouldn't
hold the baby when it had the measles,
slapped hot buckwheat cake on its mouth
to prevent its crying, ill concealed laugh
ter.
Went out of the house with cigar in his
mouth, leaving baby in a severe fit (of cry
ing.) Spring '55, baby troubled with tape
worm, cried in the night, defendant spanked
it with the corset board. Defendant laugh
cd and called corset board riolin wood
Commissions of laughter.] Spring of $50,
had turkey for dinner-he ate all the dress
ing. THE sympathies Of an entire audience
were here excited to such degree they
could hardly restrain themselves. Spring
of '577, bought little plaster Samuel for the
parlor; he took burnt cork aud made
whiskers on its face. Spring of '5s wore
his boots in the parlor, scratching the par
rot's head with a tea fork. swore at me,
called me foo-foo; wouldn't allow me but
forty dresses year. Fall of '5S had q
severe cold: to irriidte me,put mustard
plaster on my chest, read the newspapers
when had the back -ache, was in the habit
when had retired-of swearing it was
bed time, and turning off the gas; on two
occasions put on a clean shirt in the room
where lay sick. Fall of "a took me out
to ride; carriage broke down; sen. me home
in stage; wouldn't give the driver but q
slxpence. Here the plaintiffs testimony
rested-in an arm chair.
Here defendant being nervous was put
upon the stand sitting down. Married the
same year my wfe-her child and mine
both born the same day: didn't have any
maiden name: always been nervous: ncrv-
business caused by being born when my
mother was sick in bed; married because |
,houg It it would pay, fount it didn't; in
tended to marry Miss TenpsDny, but mar
ried Miss calculation; did pour soft soap on
her, had a pot of soap in my hand, in joking
way said, ''Mary, see bow you'd feel if |
should pour this on you; presume did
pour it on her, it's Ike ne, it's my way;
one morning plaintiff took the gridiron-
here counsel for plaintiff objected to bring
ing in gridron, his client said nothing
about gridiron, griliron was foreign to
the case. Court decided the gridirou should
be ruled out. Plaintiffs counsel thought il
proper to state that although he was op-
posed to the gri!iron he was not to Free
Masonry; in fact, he was Mason himself;
never threw y hlacking brush at her |:
it was brush | used for polishing my
boots.
Spring Of IS handed her tin funnel;
requested her to blow through it; had a
bottlc Of castor oil in my hand thought it
would be funny to pour it in; presume |
did so, it's just like Inc. it's nv way: pre-.
sumo did put a taIow candle down the
baby's throat; presume heard it was good
for the Group; presume it had the Group;
always loved babies; was always kind to
babies; was in the habit every Christmas
of buying penny's worth of lemon drops to
divide among my children; think did daub
the praying sammy just little, it did look
so funny; may have upset the preserved
cherries on the baby's head; very likely did
so, presume did so, think did, know l
did. Mrs. L. has cruel disposition, used
to speak to me before company; spring of '57 !,
rocked on my sore toe when was in deli
cate situation, did call her foo-foo; che
scratched me, pulled my hair, bit me, and
drummed me down the cellar stairs, stuck
my head into the coal bin, and had the chill.
blains for three weeks; always been kind
husband, presume have slapped her, all in
fun; l have made her kiss other men, | NAV
have done so in all 6 or times, or 10
times, 10 or IL times, possibly 80 times.
Strong rebstting testimony--George
Washington Adams Jefferson Monroe Lucas
on the stand-Wool grower; born in Africa;
Is years old; no hesitation in pronouncng
the turkey dressing story a falsehood, a a
base fabrication, having no foundation
whatever; distinctly remembers laying into
1T himself; recollects plaintiff saying it was
rich, and would make him sick.
Cross-examined-Don't know when or
where he was born; don't know what Dress
ing is; suppose it's stuihng; don't know that
he does know that he knows that he ate any
dressing that day; it might have been meat;
possibly the wing; probably piece of tue
breast. '--@ -
49, STUMPER STUMpED