Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-18
THE KIND OF HUSBAND TO ABOLISH


ing it, which is eating proof of the pudding.
THE KIND OF HUSBAND TO ABOLISH.
There are husbands and husbands, and
there are some who ought to be drubbed
out of decent communities by the old
women and the children. The fellow
Clery of San Francisco, whose wife Mary is
in trouble, is one of the kind that is good
for nothing but to serve as an object upon
which may be expended the contempt of
men and the hatred of women. He is of
the order of fellows who may serve some
purpose as awful examples of deprayity
and want of heart Clery's story is brief
and shameful that of his wife is sad. For
her there is sympathy; for him there
should be a rod in every honest hand. Two
years ago the young woman, then but
twenty, came from Ireland to this country
to enter domestic service. She was and is
an unsophisticated, very simple and
comedy Irish peasant girl. She secured
employment in family of Californians
then at the East, who brought her on to
this State and retained her in their service
In the same service was Clery, a cook. He
wooed and won the simple Irish girl, and
they were married and removed to San
Francisco. Clery at once put his wife into
dive to sell beer. He told her it was a
proper thing to do in this country, and
that she must aid him to make a living
He provided her with one blade of pair
of scissors with which to defend herself
when returning home late at night, if he
should fail to meet her at the closing of
the saloon. He drove her into this humil-
iating and disreputable life the very day
after their marriage, in August last, and
ever since he has led life of idIeness, re-
fusing to work and claiming to be sick, and
subsisting upon the wages OF his wife as
waitress in the dive. Monday night an
old man whom she was serving with beer
in the dive made an insulting proposition
to her, and offered her violence. She re-
sisted, and he struck her thrice in the face.
In what she ue1ioro1 - he self-defense she
struck out wildly with the weapon referred
to, and killed the man with single blow
In prison she did not appear to under
stand the terrible situation in which
she was placed, and impressed reporters
and officers alike with her innocence of
sin and her simplicity of character. If
she is deceitful woman, then, it is agreed,
she is Che queen of actresses. Her chief
sorrow seemed to be that her husband did
not come TO inquire after her, since he
must have known that she had not re-
turned home, and must have ascertained
if he had sought her, that she was in sore
trouble. In Court on Tuesday the
wretched young woman stood alone, with
not friend to give her word of advice
or consolation. A kindly attorney finally
took pity upon her and volunteered to ap-
pear for her. In the afternoon, however,
the husband Of the poor creature turned
up, and as one of the reporters with grim
humor puts it, che brought her a whole
sandwich with which to comfort herself"
He pleaded that he had been sick; that he
went to bed early Monday night and did
not awake until IL the next morning. In
stead of starting out to learn what had
become of the wife he had SO recently
married, he steered his miserable frame
into the nearest saloon for glass of beer,
and there received information of the ter
rible charge of murder laid against his
wife. He declared that he felt so "sorry"
about it, that be went straightway back to
his rooms, forgetting all about the beer.
The man attempts to excuse himself for
placing his wife in a dive on the ground
that he was sick and unable to work. a
story that, if true, is still to his discredit :;
but the truth probably is, that the fellow
is simply lazy. The San Francisco papers
agree that it is evident Mrs. Clery did not
know the infamous character of the place
in which she had been put to work. The
husband of this unfortunate woman is of
the type without which society would be
vastly better off. He is unworthy SO
much attention as has been here accorded
to him, but for the fact that such an awful
charge hangs over the life of the wife, who
is thousand times too good for him, and
who, though with blood upon her hands, is