The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-04-23
NEEDED SPANKING.
THECOURTS PRESCRIPTION
FOR A PAIR OF TWENTY
TWO-YEAR-OLDS.
Marital Happiness Wrecked on
the Rock of q MO!her-in-Law
and & Black-and-Tan
DOg--S0me Tre-
mendouS Rev
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New York sun.

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Charles A. George told Judg,
rruax, in Supreme Court Yesterday
that the combined influence Of i
mo, her.in Jaw and black-and-tal
dog bad brokea up his happy married
life. He married Lille M. Cummings
his fellow clerk in his fathers rubDel
goods store in Third avenue, ON Apri
"a, 1889 They went TO live q,
klDgsb. idge, aud the brides mother
went 10 v.siL Ter daughter. In the
latter on6 OF August Mrs. George
went to live With her mother in Brook
lyn. Then came her suit for a sepa
ration.
Mrs. George testified that she had
btc, zine acquainted with her husband
at Sunday school, and later OH mel
nun III his fathers store. Their en-,
gak ement nas once brokea on the
% Isctls vi her lnpther, but they
got married the second time. Her
husband sss arbitrary and sooD
after the marriage, she says, he be-
gan to cross her in many ways, and
ence wh,n she wanted 10 60 to Yisil
ner mother in brooklyn he locked
her . in tie gsrrei airs. He never
struck her, although he did once put
his hand over her mon b to keep her
nom taking One evening he came
hume and found some house decOra
tions of which he did 10. approve
On being tod that her mother hat
put them up he declared that they
must come down. She said she
wouldn't take them down, and hs
gave A,r until morning 10 do il.
Thy bad retired tor The night. She
called fJr her mother, but her huss
Dani wouldn't let Mrs. Cummings in.
At last Airs Cummings got IN, AMI
Gearge ordered her out. He took q
revolver cut Of a drawer and the old
Iady withdrew.
airs. Anna r. Cummings testified
about the same occurrence, but de-
cared thai George had slapped her
daughter ami knocked her over on
a sofa, slthcugh Mrs. George had
said he didn't. AIRS. George tried to
:ell tue witness what the trouble was
three times, but the husband forbade.
and fouiishei the pistol. She retir.
cd and took her daughter with her,
1ut the young woman went back 10
her huspRnd at 2 A. III. At 6 o.
clock he went out, and the witness
went TO the room 10 find The door
locked. lie came back at 5 o'clock
with his own neither, and the two
nothers had a consultation.
Tie defendant, = slender young
man Of twcEty.two-his wifes age
also-testiiied that he had thought
that be was not sufficiently clad TO
admit Ms. Cummings TO his room,
AID that be considered Il none other
business ii he had a discussion with
his wife. He sud he took out the
revolver and laid it down upon the
table to frighten the old lady, ss be
was two small to put her out forcibly.
His wife, the witness said, had q
black. and tan deg which lie UNDER
s.Coi had been in the hadit Of sleep
ing in her room. II was agreed by
her befUre their marriage that the
dog should be kept in the kitchen.
When Mrs. Cummings came to visit
she insisted upon taking the dog into
the dining room; then the dog soon
got iutO the habit Of coming into his
bedroom. Il broke him all up when
ne found that the dog was washed In
his bath tub aid wash bowl. tt
crown all. a handsome BEe tooth
comb which he had brought to hic
wif5 was used rpon thg deg biOre hi
very eyes.
Dir George said thbt but for hi.
moth,t.in.law be would have had nc
trouble with his wife lie said tht
little girl, oi Wh0m he is tue father
aid WHO 10 now seven weeks old, hao
been born lie knew not where. liz
uad not seen his vile ainco AuausI
| 80 las. until Lo met her in tue court
room. He say that bis mother.in
fotp afgnLa fasnaF atrfl. ylp f,f fhatr hnfuf
IL klngsbil6go. She told her daugh,
Ter that she worked too hard, ant
that the locality and surrounding
aefe not good. He threatened 10 pnl
the mother liz law out and oEderei
her TO so. lis wife objected to he
mother lrawny, aud told him that hu
bat better get out himself. L. wa
| .htn that he reminded her that ID
Was master If the house, aud tia
Ecr mother would have to leayp th