St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-25
TWO I'LL MATED COUPLES.
Miseries Of Married Life Detailed in
Court.
PELTED WITH BEER GLASSES.
A Deserted Husband Who Seeks Relief
From Calling Bonds and the Gus
tody Of His Child,

with billiard cue. pelted with beel
glasses, carved with. a butcher-knife
punched in the face and shot at with {
revolver would not tarn a man agains
optimism and decide the question oil
whether marriage was failure or not
then he is something more than the OF
binary human machine. How CALLING
1t must be for woman, who, after EN-
plOying the above named Instruments
failed in laying out her victim and
finds herself to be forever bereft of that
upon which she could eXpend her
wrath as often as bad whisky excited it.
Joseph w. Miller, a salOonkeeper at
White Bear lake, was the much-abused
person who told thrilling story of hair
breadth escapes and hand to hand
encounters with his wife, Edith. He
stated that they were married at Des
M0ines, To-. Jan. 25, 1879, and have
lived at White Bear lake since their
marriage. He was prompted to seek
single bleSSedneSs once more, because
his wife would continually exercise in
discretion in the use of Intoxicating
liquors. She would leave his home,
come to ST. Paul ami inhabit places
such as did not become true wife, aud
Invariably returned home after a pro-
tracted spree, as drunk as she could be.
Upon such occasions she would threaten
to kill her husband and use such vile
names and epithets as to arouse all the
neighborS. to the humility and chagrin
to St. Paul, and returning after days
revolver i'll the store room of
their house, attempted to shoot
her husband. Such treatment the hus-
band suffered for four Or five years, al
ways overlooking and correcting it
whenever he could. Sept. "a Of the
present year She tried to horizontaIize
his frame with the butt end of billiard
cue, chasing him up stairs into room,
which. fortunately for him, he reached
before she did. He held the knob on
the inside against her wild threats. with
huge butcher knife on the outside.
Here she held him prisoner for fifteen
minutes. swearing an awful streak of
pale blue profanity and brandishing the
knife and VOwing vengeance dire if she
EVER GOT AT HIM AGAIN.
Aug. IA Mrs. Miller, who had been
drinking hard during her husbands alb
Sence and had become so Intoxicated
that she fell upon the stairs while seek
ing her room, was stepped upon in the
dark by her husband upon his late re-
turn from st. Paul. Readily compre-
hending the condition of his wife, he
undertook to carry her to her loom. At
this she became furious, and renew
ing her threats, she again attempted to
execute her design. Her husband tried
to pacify her, and failing to get her con-
sent to 90 to her room, he said that he
would not stay in the house unless she
went to bed like lady, and started Off
down the avenue for the Chateaugay
hotel, where he intended to stay for the
night. He had gone but block
reached the front of the Methodist
church, when he was confronted by
his unruly wife, who with loud and
boisterOus yelling and swearing, tried
to force him to return to the house,
striking him several times in the face
and tearing the clothes from his back.
Five weeks ago, shortly after Mr.. Mill
ler commenced his action for divorce,
living in st. Paul. The defendant made
no answer to the complaint, not even
appearing in court during the hearing
before Judge Simons yesterday after
noon. Several witnesses from White
Bear lake were examined, and the
judge, after listening to the story of
the plaintiff, took the matter under con-
sideration and will file decree to-mor-
row.
The divorce case Of Benjamin Welch
against Martha Welch was heard before
Judge Simms yesterday. The plaintiff
is brakeman on the Omaha road, and
stated that they were married at Clin-
ton, Wis, in January, 1884, and lived
together as man and wife little over a
year. A female child. the issue of their
marriage, is i'll defendants charge, who
is living with Hans Peterson, at Sharon,
Wis, to whom she has also born child.
Plaintiff left his wife at Clinton three
years ago and has not seen her since,
and knows that she has been living in
open adultery with Peterson for two
years. Judge Simons, upon hearing the
evidence in the case, took it under con.
sideration until tomorrow.