Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-27

For some time past rumors have been
aaoat in private circles Of serious domestic
unhappiness existing between MIR. 7. r..
Hudd!eston, we'll known lawyer of this city,
and his wife. The matter has been, to con-
siderable extent, what might be termed an
open secret, but so long as no actual rupture
eff their domestic relations occurred, it
was charltably kept from public gaze. Mat
tiers have now assumed such shape that what
has heretofore been neighborhood gossip
has become the talk of the city, and the
courts have been invoked to determine the
matter.
A1r. Iuildlestcn formerly resided at Has
tings, at which place his first wife died,
leaving him g son and daughter, who are
now respectively 10 and % years Of age. In
1870 he married his present wife, Miss
Nellie Harmon, who was resident
of New York State. Soon after
this union he removed to St. Paul, erecting a
handsome house at No, 254 Exchange street.
Here the family resided until last Friday,
when Mrs. Hudd!eston, having determined
to apply for divorce, left home during her
husbands absence and took rooms at the
Clarendon hotel. She was accompanied by
her step-daughter, and, of course, took with
her her three children, Hartman, Mary and
Harry, aged respectively 8, 5 and years.
Having secured the services Of s. L. Pierce,
Esq, as her attorney, Mrs. Hud
dleston's first step was to obtain
the legal custody of her
children, and to this end Mr.. Pierce applied
to Judge Brill in chambers On Saturday for
such an order. The Judge promptly grant,
ed the order, giving the mother temporary
custody CT the children pending the pro-
ceedlngs.
CAUSE OF THE ACTION.
The next stop wn3 to commence formal
proceedings for g divorce, and to this end a
complaint has been made out and duly exc
cuted and placed in Sheriff Kings hands
for service. Mr.. Huddleston is, or was,
temporarily absent from the city on hunt
ing expedition. 1t was reported that
he had returned yesterday morning,
bat q Gull at his residence and office by q
GLOBE reporter failed to elicit any informa-
ton either way. If ho is not already in the
city, no is expected to arrive this morning,
when the papers will DO duly served upon
him.
The complaint alleges cruel and inhumau
treatment Oh his part, consisting of personal
violence beating. being turned out of doors
during the night, etc., all of which are re-
lated with much detail and clothed with the
usual legal verbiage. Inasmuoh as but
q few hours will probably elapse be-
fore the entire complaint becomes matter
of public record, we do not assume to give its
contents il any detail, or to repeat any of
the numerous and very damaging reports
which are in circulation relative to his treat
ment Of his wife. The ill treatment, it is al
legged, has covered period of several years,
and the whole affair reveals one of the most
unhappy domestic skeletons which has ever
been presented to this community.
Mrs. Huddleston seems 10 have host Ct
warm friends who Unite in representing her
to DO o most estimable lady. It is stated
that, for at least two years past, she has had
the stop she has now taken in corltempla-
ton, but has shrunk from the ordeal and
publicity which must necessarily ensue.
Both sue and her immediate friends abso-
lutely decline to talk upon the subject, pre-
ferrine to leave the whole matter to the ad-
Indication OF the courts.
1t is due Mr.. Huddleston, also, to call at.
tention to the fact that, thus far in the pro-
ceedings, he has had no opportunity 70 be
heard