Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-31
MRS. PARKER STRIKES sACx.
she Makes Grave Charges Against Hsz
Shooting Husband

She Makes Grave Charges Asainst Hsr
Shooting Husband.
Yesterday in the case of George 7. Parker
against Ellen NJ. Parker for divorce the wife,
by Messrs. Cook q Sutherland, fled, with the
leave Of the court, a cross bill against the hus-
band, asking a decree dissolving the bonds of
matrimony, the custody of the child, Philip
Walker Parker, temporary alimony and perma-
nent alimony thereafter for her support She
sets forth the marriage October 10, 1885; that
they had two children, one Of whom survives;
that September last Parker filed . bill for
| divorce, containing vague and general charges
OF adultery against her, and October . de-
murrer was filed and sustained, with leave to
amend, and on November an amended bill
was filed containing seven distinct charges Of
adultery against her and December 10 she filed
her answer denying each and all the charges.
She states that while said charges against her
are unfounded, yet after. June 1889, bis
conduct toward her was Of indifference,
neglect and cruelty and she suffered both in
body and mind therefrom, and her happiness
was destroyed and her health impaired and en-
dangered; that such indifference, neglect and
cruelty were gradual and eliminated in harsh
and bitter words and cold and severe acts to-
ward her and the bestowal Of special attention
to another woman mentioned by name. Among
these acts which came to her notice and which
she suffered great agony, were the following:
The purchase of a horse and buggy by him
about May, 1890, in which the woman named
was repeatedly driven out in the evening or
during the day to her (the wife's) exclusion;
the procuring by him Of shoes for said woman
and fitting them on, praising her feet; attend
ing her in the public markets and visiting other
places with her, until she regarded his wife
by the dealers and others; travelling with said
woman at night with connected sleeping berth
hafx
dence from Hammodd, N. H., and elsewhere in
which he was addressed as my dear boy by the
said woman; the gift of gold ring TO said woman
by her husband; his sitting up late at night
with her and at times with closed doors; with
other acts and in October, 1889, fondling and
kissing each other: also in May, 1890 and about
the 18th of June last hugging, kissing and going
beyond this in expressions OF unchaste and cor
rupt attachment.
She further says that in this city, in New
York, Baltimore and elsewhere Parker has
committed adultery with said woman in the fall
and winter Of 1ss9'9O and the spring and sum-
mer Of 1880. She says these averments are
made in part on personal knowledge and OBJ
servations of the conduct and peculiar init
macy of Parker and said woman and on inf0r-
nation derived from others
She further charges, on information and be-
lief, that on or about July 20 and 30, 1889. Par
ker was in Baltimore and while he registered at
the Eutaw House on the Goth of New York he
with some woman, whose name is unknown,
and registered as George T.. Parker and wife,
Richmond, Va, occupied room IS, had one or
more meals furnished and he committed adul-
terry with said woman, falsely registered as the
complainant. On information and belief she
charges that in the summer Of 1880 he COM
mi.ted adultery there with women whose
names are unknown, as well az in New York,
Boston and elsewhere.
She further charges that about September 10
last he conspired with his brother to carry out
a purpose long entertained by him and destroy
her character and life, deprive her of the care
and presence of their only child, and in accord
ance with said conspiracy he entered the Office
of DIR. Augustus Brown, where she had gone
for dental work, and falsely claimed to have seen
promising attitude in said office; hastened to
the house where the child had been left asleep
and carried her away with the cooperation Of
his brother, compelling her to obtain the re-
turn Of the child through the court by a writ
of habeas corpus. She saws that in further exc
cution of the conspiracy the defendant fur
nished the press OF the city false narrative Of
his conduct in Browns Office and of her be-
havior there, and afteFward, in further execu-
ton Of the conspiracy, caused to be prepared
and filed petition of divorce based largely on
exaggerated. false. scandalous and impertinent
of the occurrences and Of her con-
duct and that of said Brown at his said Office,
''all of which said doings were extremely cruel.
to cause her great mental anguish
and physical suffering" and from these cruel
and wrongful acts she say she has suffered
greatly in mind and body and will continue to
suffer.
She therefore prays as above.