St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04
DESERTED AT DULUTH.
Mrs. Buell's Charges Against Her
Husband.

A case was filed yesterday in the dis
trict court, wherein prominent news
paper man of Duluth figures. In
the complaint of Hattie l.. Buell. against
her husband, Frank Buell., for an abso-
lutte divorce and alimony, Mrs. Buell.
states that she is twenty-five and her
husband twenty-five years of age, and
that they were married at Superior,
Wis, by justice of the peace the 10Th
of May, 1887, only four months before
Mrs. Buell. gave birth to female child,
which has since been named
Pearl. Since her marriage she
has lived at st. Paul. except one month
at Duluth. The defendant has always
refused to acknowledge her to the world
as his wife, and Immediately after his
marriage to her he sent her back to st.
Paul without providing her with the
bare necessities of life or subsistence.
He neglected and refused to visit her
or answer her letters, and she says the
October, 1887, when, in answer to her
repeated appeals for means to support
herself and child, he sent her $25. The
child was born in August, 1887. and at
the time of her confinement she was
living at 1853 West Sixth street. About
six weeks after her babe was born she
was compelled for want of means to
move to cold, uncomfortable quar-
tiers at No. 81 South Robert
street, West st. Paul. Wholly unable
to furnish the room, she was obliged to
sleep upon ali empty cot with her child
without sufficient covering to shield
either from the cold that made it almost
uncomfortable, and nearly causing the
death of the infant. She says she was
often forced to sleep upon the cold and
bare floor. with no stove to heat the
room or clothing for her suffering Off
spring. During those trials she suffered
severely from want of food and comfort,
and scant necessities of life were sup
piled by charitable friends and rela-
paying her $50 per month. This he con-
called on her, during one of his visits
from Duluth, and used most abusive
language. calling her vile names
and accusing her of disgraceful acts.
The latter part of August, 1888. he
again visited plaintiff and requested her
to go to Duluth with him, representing
that he would live with her as her huS-
band, and that they would go to house
keeping together as husband and wife.
Believing that he would do as he told
her, she accompanied him to Duluth,
where he placed her in a disreputable
fiat, visiting her only at night and leav-
ing her early in the morning. He had
her take her meals at restaurant and
refused to accompany her upon the
streets or to dine with her. Here he
kept her for thirty miserable days,
which were only made the more bitter
by his continual abuse and malediction
at one time applying to her the title
of a woman of public ill repute.
Then he told her he could
not afford to keep her any
longer, and sent her back to st. Paul,
where she leaned upon her relatives for
support, having received but $40 from
defendant. She claims that he enjoys
large income as deputy Oil inspector.
and that he is one of the proprietors of
of the Duluth Tribune, and asks for
the custody of her child and such
alinony and relief as the court may
grant.