Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-14

F>SS~ ASoo'oAy VACLcdlCoE, udu 1clt US OuE
only domestic servant had left us the day be-
lore, $50 that weswere temporarily without any
hired help. Our dinner hour was 6 o'clock P,
H. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon my
son and l were ready to start on our hunting
excursion and had requested that some lunch
oe prepared for US: Our usual lunch time
was o'clock p. M. We waited for lunch until
about O'Clock, at which time none had vet
been prepared, nor were there any signs, that
this defendant knew Of, that any lunch would
be prepared, or that any preparations were
making therefor, aud we started off with
out any, and called on our way out at
hotel and procured some crackers. We re-
turned at about Z o'clock that evening, and
found her sister, Mrs. Welsh, sitting outside
the house on the front porch. went into the
house and into the dining room, and there
were no signs of any dinner having been pre-
pared or saved for US. The dinner dishes,
seemingly, were all cleared away. I waited
some Tune to sec If any Of them would get us
something to eat, and no one came. They
SILL remained Oh the porch. l spoke out loud
enous b Tor them to hear me, and said, Are
we not going to have something to eat?" when
Mrs. Welsh come from the porch into the hall
near the dining room door, where I was stand
1ng' and answered me by saying, "Nellie,"
meaning my wife, ''didn't come out here to
work" replied that 81 didn't want her to
WORK unnecessarily, but we were hungry and
wanted something to eat" and then I said to
her, What have you got to do with my wife,
or what business is it of yours? You are q
guest here, and don't want you to Interfere or
be lmpertinent, and if You don't like my style
you had better leave''and shut the dining room
door between her and myself. She then came
around by another door and was quite imperti-
nent to me. I had no words with my wife,
There was nothing that knew of or saw that
was kept in the oven elsewhere for us to
eaq. What we cot to eat that night. if any,
thing, do not now distinctly remember, but
it was of no great Importance. My wife,
without my having any words with her, de-
serted my bed and slept with her sister that
night. She came down stairs in the morning
and told me that her sister was going down
town to get her breakfast, and that unless
apologized to her sister, that both she and her
sister would leave that day and go to Buffalo,
N. Y. went up stairs and saw that they had
already commenced to pack up their clothes
and had got out a good many of my wife's
things preparatory thereto.
Fearing exposure and scandal, and believing
that my wife had been badly advised by her
sister and would, in her anger, in order to re-
sent supposed insult to her sister, leave me,
was foolish enough to apologize to her sister,
and she did not go away from my house to get
her breakfast, and all seemed pleasant again
for the time being; but my wife's sister pre-
vailed upon my wife, a few days afterwards, to
insist upon going to Buffalo, and she was de-
termined to go without my consent. Seeing
that could not restrain her from 80 doing, for
appearance sake, and not wishing to make a
scene, made no further objection and they
went, and by appointment their brother-in-l law
Oscar Folsom, met them in Chicago and took
them to Buffalo, as my wife afterwards in
formed me. My wife wrote to me about week
or ten days after this a cold letter, in which
she said in substance that she supposed would
like to hear from the child, if not from her, and
signed herself, 'Your unworthy wife" Her
departure broke up our housekeeping, and my
self and Minnie and Gently, my children by a
former wife, who were left behind, were COM
PEELED to go out to board.
My wife remained absent from home about
two months. when went after her and brought
her back.
It is not true, as alleged in the reply herein,
that on any occasion about four months before
our daughter Mary was born or at any other
time while plaintiff was in bed with NE, I
scolded, threatened and abused her to such an
extent that she attempted to get out of my bed
and to leave the room; nor is it true that on
any occasion caught her and locked her in the
room, where she spent the remainder of the
nigh on the floor, or that my wife ever spent
the night or any part thereof, on the floor of
any room, on account of any action on my part;
nor is it true that the arms of the plaintiff were
ever black and blue from injuries received at
my hands on any such occasion as alleged in
said plaintiffs reply.
About the month of July, A. D. 1876, my
wife's sister, Mrs. Emma Folsom, and her
daughter came out to visit us. On her arrival,
my wife, without any cause for so doing, de-
serted my bed and went to sleep with Der
sister. did not particularly resent this
action at first, thinking that it would continue
only few nights. After several weeks repe-
tition of the same thing, I demonstrated with
her about leaving my bed, but she paid no at
tention to it; and I also on the night referred
to in the complaint as being in August, 1876,
as my wife was about retiring to her sisters
bed again spoke to her about 1t, and also spoke
so loud that her sister could hear me, and said
it was not right that her sister should come to
my house as my guest and take my wife from
my bed; and soon after retired my wife came
from her sisters bed to mine. She laid down
on the edge of the bed most distant from me
and turned her back to me. asked her what
1 had done to deserve such treatment, and
attempted to put my arm around her in an af-
fectionate manner. She said, ''Let me alone.
want to 60 to sleep" I said to her, ''Isn't
it the truth that you desire to sleep with your
sister, and not with me?" She replied EYES,"
and said go then,' at the same time giving
her push with my foot. The bed was q very
low one, being only fourteen inches from the
floor, and my wife could not have fallen there
from so violently as to have caused her any
particular injury.
She arose from the floor. calling out for her
sister and others apparently with the design of
arousing the whole household and creating a
scene. arose from the bed and she rushed at
me several times in great anger and struck me,
at the same time calling me names, such as
"villain," "brute," etc. When she rushed at
me I seized her by both arms for the
not with the intention of injuring her in
the least. She still continued to struggle and
tore herself loose from my grasp two or three
times; at about this time her sister, and I
think my daughter Minnie rushed into the
room; when threw her on the bed, and es-
capped from her. I told her then, that she had
struck me; and that as it had now come to
violence she should leave the house that night.
Mrs. Folsom replied that Nellie would go in the
morning. said again, that she should go that
night; when Mrs. Folsom replied as before and
both left the room. took some dresses which
my wife had hanging in the closet of my Sleep
ing room, and threw them out in the hall. The
foregoing is all that occurred between myself
and wife that night. It is not true that after
pushed my wife out of bed, I thrust her on the
floor; nor that commenced pounding her; nor
that in any manner struck her; nor is it true
that on the night before said occasion I had
been fretting and scolding her till after mid
night; nor that she was agitated and wearied
by my said conduct, and begged me to allow
her to 60 to sleep; she did not sleep with me
the night before the said occurrence; but slept
with her sister, as before stated; nor is it true
that she was greatly injured by me on that &C.
caslon: nor Is 1t true that, on account of the
same, she was confined to her couch some three
days.
On the evening of the next day soon after
dinner l went to the bedroom occupied by her
sister and found her there. She was lying on a
sofa. went up to her, and in loving way
asked her how it was that she had made so
much trouble and exposed our differences to
the servant. (Our servant had left that morn
ing). She said she was going to Buffalo With
her sister and they would keep house there;
and she said her sister had housekeeping
things enough to keep house, and
asked if she could have the