Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-21
A DANDY HUSBAND.
Drinking to the Health of a Sick
Wife.
Receiving His Drunken Chums, and Com
polling His Wife to Crawl from Bed to
PIaV on the PianO-Scatlering
Food for the Angels.

NEWARK, n. J., September ia divorce
suit now in progress in this city is abound
ing in interesting complications. The par
ties are Abram Watson Flavell and his
wife. Mr.. Flsveil is a son of the late
Abram FlaYell, the famous Second Adj
veatist and Millerits, who spent three
large fortunes seeking 10 promulgate his
peculiar ideas.
When be reached the matrimonial age
young Abram was duly uni led in wedlock
10 Miss LOtsie MaCombcr, comedy and &C.
complishei blonde. TIE marriage was
only an experiment however, for in a
short time yOuag Abram was divorced
from his Joy and pretty wife. He now be-
came great favorite with the tair sex. He
was a fine tenor and as heir to a large for
tune he was considered a big catch. The
lucky woman proved to be Alice A. Kosher,
who had just been
Conveniently United
from q certain Mr.. Kosher. She was q
II, usGC teacher, tall and slender, with black
Csir and eyes. Five children blessed the
union, but in 1878, on account Of extreme
Personal abuse aud cruelty she applied for
q divorce. Then her husbands father in.
duCPd her 20 return 10 his son, promising
10 provide in his will for herself and chill
rTen.
In August, 1881, the elder Flsvell died.
He left an iron. clad will, cutting Off his
eldest son without a shilling, and leaving
al his property ~ his widow. In Febru.
sry last the widow died, and Abrsm Wat,
son Flavell received SIS. $50 worth of prop.
erty as his share of the estate. His eldest
brother sued the estate and got about s., 900
through a compromise. Two sisters got
81, 600 each, and valuable house and lot
was left 10 AbraR Watson FlayelPs chill
dren. Several weeks ago his wife again
applied for q separation from him, on &C
count Of drunkenness and cruelty.
Mrs. Flayell, in her petition, AYERS that
her husband began drinking TO excess soon
aII,r their marriage, and was continually
Drunk and QunrreISOms
during the three years they lived in Pater
son. He threatened her lille, tried to make
her bRke pies for the keeper Of rumshop
where he Caroused, beat her until she vas
blsCk and blue, said she was "a milestone
about his neck and y stumbiipg-6lock ia his
Path" srd finally drove her mother out OF
the house while she was nursing the plain
til through q seige OF illness. She says
that one Day be sat at the foot of her bed
and drank Der health from bottle OF gin.
that he brought tramDs to sleep in the
house, sud got his little boy drunk on
beer.
When they removed to Newark he once
took her five mon tbs babe from her mothers
house at night, and kept it at his mothers
ageek. That was in 1878, and she at once
applied for divorce, alimOny and the Gus
tCGy OF her children.
Favelps father, the petitioner continues,
induced her TO look over her husbands
4. Afa
fathers house for the sake Of her children.
After his mother died and beqUeathed him
a large share of the estate, he moved to one
of his houses st William and Washing
ton streets, this city, aud there,she AYERS,
Abused and Beat
her badly. He drove her into the street,
and she crawled through a window at day
light TO feed her children. A neighbor
complained to the police. She SAYS that he
was drunk when three OF his children were
i'll and when they died, and Was also drunk
at the funeral.
On the evening after the last child was
buried, Flavell brought to his house Geo.
Mathews aid one Crosby, two curbstone
real estate speculators aud made her get
ont Of bed and play the piano and sing for
them. Last June he took his two survlV-
ing children to Ocean Grove, and q few
weeks later returned and said they were
sick. He made his wife go to them, and
then he advertised ia . local paper warning
10 ks not To trust his wife, because she had
left him. He sent the household clothing
snd furniture TO an auction store.
LAST week United States District Attorney
A. L. Keasbey and r. J. Castles, counsel for
Mrs. Flsvell, made a discovery that will
probably get
The Husband I'm Trouble.
Fe bad told his wife that valuable property
at William and Washington streets was be-
dueathed to him, and he included it in his
statement of assets to the Vice Chancellor.
But the last will of his mother showed
that the property was absolutely de-
vised to the children, without any
power upon the part OF the father
to control it in any way. Further,
by q special provision of the will, FlavelPs
mother desired to provide permanent
home for her grandchildren, and to that
end positively requested her sou to use the
income from two other properties willed to
him to pay of q mortgage on the chlldren's
property. Mrs Flavell has applied for
gus rdian to carry out the provisions OF the
will. FlayelI. in his answer, admits drunk,
enness, but says his motherin-law caused
ali the trouble.