The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1875-12-09
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st. Louis in January, 1875, she states
Titus treated his wife very badly and
did not speak to her for three or four
weeks. Although his wife was i'll
at the time he failed to pay any a..
tention to her, and she sent to this
city for her mother to purse her.
While in Kansas City he cursed and
abused his wife because she refused
to play at the matinee when she was
sick, and, on that OCCASION, he also
Threatened to take his trunk and leave
her. She pleaded with him to re.
main, and he went out and got drunk.
The witness was sent for about four
o'clock in the morning, and remain.
ed in the hall talking to Titus until
six o'clock, pleading with him not to
desert his wife. While in Philadel.
phia in October, 1874, he also treat.
ed his wife very badly, and on one
occasion, when she spoke to him
about business, he told her roughly
that she did not know anything about
business, and pushed her, and che
would have fallen down the steps bat
that the witness was coming up and
caught her. She states that he hand.
led all the money, and when tho
plaintiff asked him for money ho
would say he did not have any, and
would then so out and spend it in
drinking. While in San Francisco
in January, 1875, his treatment of
her was such that she was compelled
to have the attendance of a physician
behind the scenes while fulfilling her
engagement at the theatre. 1t wac
in that city they parted, and the wit.
ness states that the defendant took
his trunk from the plaintiffs . room
and left the hotel. The next day the
plaintiff came to tho witness and
since that time has lived apart from
the defendant.
She further states that the defends
ant is Il man of disagreeable temper!
The plaintiff had always attended to
her own business, but after her mar
riage with the defendant he would
not let her ask him any questions or
say anything to him about business;
if she did ho would shut her up as
though she was Child, and this. nc
matter what the place or who was
present, before the company or in
the theatre. He always treated her
unkindly, and would curse her and
talk roughly to her. She also stated
that the plaintiff had always tried to
live happily with the defendant, and
had, up to the time of their sepa--
ration, endeavorod to hide all his
faults.
The deposition of Matte Denke,
the waiting maid Of Mrs Titus, wac
taken at the Exchange Hotel, in
Richmond, Va, and has boon filed
in the court. Sho states that she has
known Titus for fonr years, and that
he was very i'll tempered at times;
that she heard him curse plaintiff in
St. Louis in June, 1875. Titus had
never been kind to his wife since she
knew them--that is since their mar.
riage- except for a few months after
the said marriage. She also refer
red to the absence and neglect of the
plaintiff on the part of the defendant,
as detailed by the other witnesses,
and stated that though she had never
seen Titus actually strike his wife.
she saw him shake her in Philadel.
phia, and heard him tell her 9Th at il
she was man he would knock her
head off her" She also states that
when the company was playing in
this city to crowded houses, plain
tiff asked defendant for $5, and, in
cross manner, he asked her what she
wanted il.