The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-19
THE CRUEL HUSBAND
The Sad Story of Mrs. Mcmillan
Of Philadelphia.
SHE is A CULTIVATED WOMAN.
She is Highly Connected in Ohio Counting
Among her Relatives the Shermans,
Ewings and the Campbells.

Especial to THE HERAID-Examiner Dispatch
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1S.-The distressing
story OF husbands cruelty to his wife
has come to light through the removal of
Mrs. Mcmillan, cousin of Governor
Campbell, of Ohio. From the Girard house
Mrs. Mcmillan was taken away by her
brother in spite of the circumstances of
her husband, and being in historical con-
dition at the time uttered such distressing
cries that the attention of many persons
was attracted by her. After learning the
cause of her condition everybody sympa-
thized with the almost crazed woman, none
more than the proprietor of the Girard
house, his manager and representative in
the case.
Mrs. Mcmillan comes from Hamilton,
Ohio. She is a cultivated woman, and is
connected with the best families in the
Buckeye state. Besides being Governor
elect Campbell's cousin, she is also rela ted
to the Shermans and Ewings. She is very
beautiful, petite brunette, vivacious and
nervously sensitive, highly cultivated and
kindhearted to fault just such loyable
little creature as any SelfreSpecting or
proper man would be proud to have as
wife. Mcmillan is handsome and trim in
his dress. Nobody would take him for
wife beaten. The story of her stay at the
Girard house is told by Mrs. Bradley, the
housekeeper, who was much interested in
her case.
''She came IN carriage from fashion
able boarding house on Catherine streets
near Broad, to escape from her husband
She sent man to help pack her goods and
then she returned. l was first attracted to
the case when Mr.. Parker was called by
nf he u,,t- md coll tl,.,N
lady in No. q was i'll and was lying in
faint on the floor | went to her and she
told me her story. She said her husband
had beaten her repeatedly, had held knife
to her throat and choked and pinched her
black and blue. She showed me the marks,
some of them as large as the palm of your
hand. She had suffered untold agOnies
from her brutal treatment. but more than
all from the fact that he said he would put
her in al asylum. He told everybody she
said she was crazy, even on the train com
ing from the west, when there was no ne.
cessity for doing So He told the people to
pay no attention to her, that she was not
for her actions He was always
afraid she would expose him.
Mrs. Mcmillan gave me the deeds of
her property in Ohio to keep for her /
gave them to Mr.. Moore, proprietor of the
Girard house. She said to me, Mrs.
Bradley, you don't know what have been
to bear during the last five long
years. She said her husband had for
years pursued course of systematic abuse
to compel her to eXtort money from her
father. She was evidently attached TO
him, though she had grown very much
afraid of him. Speaking of her early his
tory, she said she was very young when
she married. Her mother was dead and
her father bitterly opposed the marriage.
She talked to me great deal about type
writer at John Wanamaker's store She
said this person was introduced to her by
her husband and she had learned they were
intimate. The type writer
cut my bangs she said, 'and ruined them
believe on purpose
Mr.. Parker had clerk at the Girard
house, who had charge of Mrs. McMillan's
interests in the house during her stay, said
that all Mrs. Bradley had said was true.
Mr.. Parker believed Mcmillan intended to
do his wife bodily harm. Mcmillan said to
him: ''If you want to see circus, let me
into her room"
Il don't want to see circus,n answered
Mr.. Parker, land will not letyou in"
Then Mcmillan took a room in the house
and made so much trouble that Mr.. Parker
was compelled to station special officer at
Mrs. McAIillan'S door to protect her. Her
husband tried to get in but was prevented.
Mrs. Mcmillan left November II.
Mr.. Parker sent u dispatch TO Mrs. Nc
Millan's brother, A. l.. S. Campbell, OF
Hamilton, Ohio, cousin Of the governor
elect, ard received the following reply:
Hamilton, Ohio, November Ii, 1889. To
Fannie Mcmillan, room 2l1 Girard housed
Rest easy and will see that you are cared
for as soon as possible A. L. 5. Campbell"
On the following day he sent this dis
patch to Mr.. Parker: Hamilton, Ohio,
November {, 1889 To Charles Parker,
hot =
not neglected until you hear further from
me, A. L. 5. Campbell" in answer to a
telegram from Mr. Parker and long and
pleading letter from Miss Hamburger, who
is dentist and the first woman in the
United States graduate into that profes-
sion. She is a boarder at the Girard
house and is highly connected in Philadel-
phia. She says:
II was irresistibly drawn to poor Mrs.
Mcmillan. She told me her husband abused
and cheated her out of her inheritance.
When he had mortgaged her property, she
said she went to the keystone National
bank, where he had deposited the money,
under the impression that the money had
been deposited in her name, and drew a
check, which was not honored. The money
had been deposited in his name"
Miss Lizzie Coad, the nurse who was EN-
ployed to accompany Mrs. Mcmillan and
her brother to Ohio, has returned to the
Girard house. She gave an interesting &C
count of her trip.
Mr. Campbell brother of Mrs. Mcmillan
and cousin Of the governor elect, is
wealthy resident of Hamilton. He and DR..
Wofiest assisted the nurse in removing Mrs.
Mcmillan from the Girard house. They
went out the back way to avoid meeting
Mcmillan, who was pacing the front corri-
doris like a mailman and breathing ven
geance. The trip to Ohio was made with
out incident. Hamilton has been the home
of the Campbells for half century. Mrs.
Mcmillan acted in q perfectly calm manner
from the time they left the hotel in Phila-
delphia. She was never unduly excited
even i'll Philadelphia, except on the subject
of her husbands treatment of her. They
were met at the depot by the family car
riage and driven to the old homestead,
just outside of the city. At the door they
were met by Mrs. McMlllans father.
Tears streamed down his cheeks as he
clasped his daughter in his arms and she
exclaimed, ''Oh pa, you don't want me''
EYES," he replied, you knsw we all love
you and want you"
In her hasty flight the poor woman had
put slippers on her bare feet and when her
father saw this he broke down like child.
Her other brother was present and greeted
her most affectionately. The morning
after her arrival at her fathers house ex-
Congressman Morry, of Ohio, her sisters
husband, called and took charge of Mrs.
McMillan's legal interests. He took steps
at once to secure her property from her
husband and a legal fight will be begun to
cancel the transfer of certain interest,"
which were obtained from her by threats
of sorce.
Business at Colon.
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