St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-24
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Two Suffering Wives Air Their
Ills in Court and Are Granted
Divorces.

Two Suffering Wives Air Their
Ills in Court and Are Granted
Divorces.
Saturday is the day set for the hear
ing of special term causes in the district
court, and at these sessions divorce
suits are aired and fumigated, some
times creating little excitement and
oftentimes an odious unwilling of IN
harmonious domesticity. Two cases
came up yesterday which have been de-
facing the court minutes each Saturday
for month or more past. They were
heard by Judge Kerr, who sew
cred the matrimonial bonds in each in
stance. The first was that of the much
abused Mrs. Agnes &. Graves against
her very abusive husband, George p.
Graves, whom she charges with cruel
and inhuman treatment. They were
married at Duluth in 1881, and have
had borne to them one child. They
lived for a while at 65 East Fourth
street, and it was here that the husband
made life miserable for his better half.
He was arrested last fall for threaten
ing his wife with horse pistol, and
after hearing in the municipal court
was placed under 500 bonds to keep
the peace. Two days later he tried to
paint the town a blooming crimson,
but partially failing in this, he came
home and painted his wife's left optic
in dark blue. She says he kept his
muscle hard by pounding and smuggling
her poor weak frame. Since he seemed
determined to reside upon the earth
and caress her after the CROWS fashion,
she was obliged to dissolve the relation,
and therefore. by due process, she ap-
pealed to Judge Kerr, who ordered a
decree to be drawn severing the ny
mental bond so severely strained.
The next was a sensation all dressed
of form. with anti-Chicago feet, teeth as
white as pearls, large black eyes with
the iris set in frame of white as
large and bullying as a frogs
stomach; her dress was faultless for
its kind, and in all, she would have been
considered beautiful on the coast of
Africa, for she was negreSS. From
the day of her unhappy union with
William M. Waddill, an Eighth street
barber, her life has been multiplied
ton table of indigestible victuals, and
she let the court know that she would
not be griped and suffer the dangers to
life and limb in MI. Waddill's company
any longer. They were married in Sep
IL.
She claims that he is bold, bad man,
and dangerous character to live with.
He is fond of Boosting of his skill with
the rah-zar, and time and again has he
tiOurished it over her form. She had
brought as witness of her sore
trials a gentleman of her own
color, though considerably paler-
probably from fright. This individual
took to the witness stand as a spaniel
does to mud puddle, and once there.
proceeded to describe the obnoxious
characteristics of the defendant in the
action. After review of the four cor
nerS OF the court room he deliberated
upon ''dat Mistah Wod'ul." ''Wahl, he
am stremely unconscious oh de laws oh
rll-ation. He be mean, and-and-eh,
chock full OBJ de stuff called spite. De
spite dat he have is de wust dat ebber
man did spectorashun obon his pu-ah
wife"
Here the judge interrupted the wit
ness and asked him to tell what he knew
of the defendants dangerous prOclivi-
ties.
NV ell, ye'onah! dem declivities'
what's just scared his wifi NOAH dan
his 'busive language. In fack, William
Morrison Wod'ul is meaner dan any oh
de coons whats raised on Fifth street,
and ye'ohah-Ise spects he is real -
uncouf' (uncOuth). The last remark
he uttered with an assuring glance at
the court, as much as to say, that alone
should seal the defendants fate" The
court shut off all debate by granting the
divorce.