Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-22
VALENSIN vs.. VALENSlN.
EVIDENCE OF THE WIFE AGAINST
TIE HUSBAND.

An Interesting Divorce Suit be'"ee'i
a Real Count and Cen
uine Countess.
The hearing of the divorce case OF Allce
NJ. Valensin vs. Guilo Nalensin was COM
menced yesterday in Department Two OIL
the Superior Court, before Judge Mcf
land. The attorneys in the case are, Tor
the plaintiff, benson and Beatty; Tor the
defense. johnson, Catlin and Henley.
DIR. \. Montague of Calf, was sworn as
witness, and testified that he was ac-
quainted with both plaintiff and defendant.
On the 9th of July last was called to the
Arno farm to see Mr.. Nalensln ON my
arrival Mrs. Valensin represented to me
that Mr.. Valensin had taken laudanum
[ was Immediately shown into
the room, where l found him
on a bed in a sleepy condition. He
was under the influence OF the drug
enough to be drowsy; his pupils were
| contracted, and he was languld ana lndif-
| ferent | suggested to him that 1t would
| be well for him to take an emetlc. lie
! objected, and | told him ii he resisted that
| course we would be obliged to empty his
stomach ANYHOW After some remon-
STRANGE he submitted and we did so. At
| first we undertook to strap him, but did
not succeed Judge MeSick and the hired
man and Mrs Valensin and myself under
+ took to
RESTRAIN HIM FORCIBLY.
| We laid hands on him and undertook to
| restrain the movements of his hands and
feet. | think we had straps, but my
memory is that we did not find them
efficient. Finally we pumped his stomach
full of water, and it came back again
without any pumping process. We used a
number of ordinary pans full OF water, and
l then administered an antidote and
gave him exercise, making him walk
until after midnight. Mrs. Nalensin
seemed to be distressed, mentally
and physically She was very weak
| was up all night. We walked him around,
and when he would become exhausted, |
allowed him to sit down; among other
( things | made him count in Italian and
English | did not examine Mrs Val
ensin's physical condition as physician.
She expressed such manifestations of anX-
/ iety as We would naturally expect under
I circumstances.
witness said: | remember a man named
! Chris. Lang. | think he was there at that
time When we applied the straps to him,
and they were Intellectual. Mrs Nalensin
urged him strongly to submit to the intro
duction of the stomach pump, and he then
said If you will unStrap me | Will do 1t,
/ but | rather objected to unstrapping him,
! as l was afraid we could not succeed if we
/ did, and Chris. Lang then said, ''If he says
| he will submit, YOU can depend upon ii he
will do it, He made no resistance at all
when we administered the stomach pump.
He submitted quietly. | arrived there
about or o'clock in the evening. left
| about or s o'clock in the morning, and |
made another visit there that same day,
and the poisonous effects had all passed off,
| TESTIMONY OF PLAINTIFF.
! Alice NJ Valensin was next called as a
witness and testified: l am the plaintiff in
! this action. | was married to the defend
ant in Florence, Italy, on the 10th day of
/ February, 1873 For the last five years
! have been residing at Hicksville, Sacra-
mentO county, on what is known as the
Arno Stock Farm. | have one child
named Pho. He will be y years old the
26th of November | resided in Italy for
( three or four years after | was married to
defendant, but then we were in other places
during that time We left Italy in the fall
! of 1877 and came to this country. We re-
sided in San Francisco during portion of
! that winter. After leaving San Francisco
we went to my mothers, in San
JOAQUIN county. where we remained
until March when we came to Hicks
Vile on a visit to my grandmother
and grandfather, Mr. and Mrs. Hicks. Re
NAMED there few weeks, and afterwards
l went to a house in Hall place and stayed
/ a few weeks until a small house was built
on my land, and from that time until now
/ have lived there. | made the acquaint-
ance of Mr. Nalensin in Florence Italy, in
1871 or 1872. about a year and a half before
we were married. There Lad been a dis
cussiOn between Nh. NalenSin and | as to
the form in which our marriage was to he
consummated. | always believed that !
was to be married i'll the Catholic church,
and a short time before my marriage Mr..
Valensin came to me and said that his
father
WAS OF THE JEWISH FAITH.
He himself did not practice that religion,
but had been brought up under a Catholic
tutor, and believed in no other religion but
the Catholic if he believed in any. He
had a great preference for the Catholic re-
ligion, but for the sake of his fathers life,
on his Bonded knees, with tears streaming
down his cheeks, he begged of me not to
be married openly in the church, but pri-
vately in some little parish in Italy near
Florence. He said, Would you cause my
fathers DEATH" | said would not cause
his death. but could not be married out of
the Catholic Church, and | wished to be
married publicly in the Catholic Church.
He cried he begged of my mother, and she
was more tender hearted, probably, than |
was, or she felt sorry for him, and she
turned and said, Daughter, don't be so
hard don't be so hard. You hear what he
saws" ! had always thought that when |
| was married in my religion | would be
more devoted to it. | was brought up a
Catholic, and
| HAD BEEN RAISED IN CONVERTS.
He said, promise you, ! swear 10 you
on the head OF my father, and may my
father die this instant. if do not keep this
promiSe-I swear before we leave Florence
two hours that | will marry yen before a
Catholic priest He wrote a letter TO
priest in Paris, my Conilssor. | have not
the letter that he wrote. It is in dispatch
box which he has IN his possession In
consequence Of this promise that he made
relented, and said that ! would consent To
not being married publicly. hut Is be said.
civilly married, and with the civil marriage
certificate take il to q Catholic priest and
he would marry Us Immediately We were
married civilly III Florence, and from there
we went to Pisa. There requested him to
fulfill the promise he made me, At first
he refused in very kind considerate way,
and begged me to wait awhile as it might
be hard upon his father, and different
things of that kind, and l said,
No, CAN NOT WATT
| said: You know very well that do not
believe that a marriage before magistrate
IS binding, or that | am married To YOU.
and | can not wait and | begged him
He then told me that he never had the
idea of fulfilling his promise, and said he
would not fulfill it, which caused me very
great pain. and week after | was married
was very near unto death; and he has
refused ever since at different times to
fulfill that promise, until short time ago,
he having used all the means in his power
to prevail upon me to either give him my
property absolutely or mortgage it in his
favor, and because l would not do it
exactly as he wanted me to, and found that
he had lost a hold upon me by the threat
be had always made to take my child, he
thought he would gain me back