Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-04
MR. PARKER WANTS A DIVORCE
He Files BMl Against His Wife Naming
DR.. Brown as Correspondent

MR. PARKER WANTS A DIVORCE.
He Files Bll Against His Wife Naming
DR.. Brown As Correspondent
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YxsfxRpAr-MRs. PARKRR GONE TO HER
MoTH8R's-PAnKIR's FIRST wIFR's DIVORCE
BILL
Two holes, one through the door and one
through the door frame, mark the shots that
Mr.. G. 7. Parker fred at DR.. Gustavus Brown
at the time Of their sensational meeting at DR..
Browns house on 18th street yesterday after
noon, as reported in yesterdays STAR
DR.. Brown is highly indignant at the account
Of the affair a. given by Mr.. Parker and he
said to STAR reporter this morning that the
whole thing was simply case of plackmail The
house where the shooting occurred is large one
with wide Railways. At either end of the second
story hall is ball room, the one in the front
OF the house being used by DR.. Brown as his
office, and the one in the rear by another
dentist. The bed rooms are on the north side
Of the hall
1.-THE whole story as told BY Mr.. Parker Of
his finding has wife and myself in my private
room is q falsehood." said the doctor to q STAR
reporter today. when Parker entered was
IN my ONCE and he came in through the door
leading from the front room to the hall ROOM
which use for an office. Mrs. Parker was
present at the time, filling q professional en-
gagement she had made with me- aud the
statement that there was anything compromis-
ing IN our attitudes is entirely without founda-
ton. Both doors into my Office we're not
only not locked, but were partially open at
the time he came in, and Mrs. Parker
was just on the point Of leaving. Other people
were around the house at the time, and when
Parker says that his wife went into my private
room to get her hat and cloak he says what Is
not true. Nor is il a fact that ever gave Mrs.
Parker one OF my photographs. l deny. fatty,
the story that went over to Asbury Park at
any time for the purpose of meeting Mrs.
Parker. My relations with her have always
been simply those Of physician toward q
patient
'.In my opinion Parker, who il seems was d.
vorced from his first wife, is merely seeking an
excuse for separation with Mrs. Parker num-
Der two, but why he should have brought me
into the matter is more than know. Naturally
enough. situated as am. am provoked and
enraged at the whole business, but am conf
dent that will have no difficulty at oil in clear
ing myself Of all his charges.
when he came into my Office yesterday
afternoon he at once drew a revolver on me. I
told him, that I was unarmed and that he
might shoot il he wished. for he was nothing
but a coward anyhow. He did not fire, how
ever. until he'd left the room and had entered
the Office at the other end of the hall and closed
the door behind me. Then he fred the length
Of the hall, but did no damage whatever"
Several other people in the house corrobo-
rated his statements and said that situated as
the rooms are it would have been impossible
for anything unseemly to have taken place
without their knowing it, especially as the
doors were all open. The colored man, DR..
Browns servant denied that Mrs. Parker had
gone into the doctors room to get her wraps.
but stated that after the shooting she simply
went down the hall out Of his Office and then
out OF the house.
MRS. PARKER AT HER MOTHERS.
Mrs. Parker has gone back to her mother,
Mrs. Turner, to stay for the time being. When
a STAR reporter called at the house where Mrs.
Turner lives, 600 F street. today, he was told
that the two ladies had gone out together some
time before and it was not known where they
had gone nor when they would be back.
WARRANT AGAINST PARKER.
After the excitement was all over yesterday
DR.. Brown went to Magistrate Taylor's office
and swo-e ont a warrant against Mr.. Parker
charging him with assault and battery with
intent to kill. The warrant was placed
in the hands OF the first precinct
police for service, but Mr.. Parker could
not be found by the officers this morning. This
afternoon at the / o'clock roll call Lieut.. Amiss
placed the warrant in the hands of an officer
who was sent out IN citizens clothes to look for
the accused. but Parker had not been arrested
at 2:30 o'clock.
Mr.. Parker was at the Office of his counsel
Mr.. Bell today inquiring as to the warrant and
stated that his business required him to leave
the city, but he did not like to leave IL q war
rant had been issued.
PARKER ARRESTED.
Parker was arrested later at the office of his
attorney, Mr.. Bell, on ~ street. by Oficer
Boardmap Of the first precinct, and Mr. Bell at
once went out to arrange for the giving of bail
MRS. PARKER WANTS HER CHILD.
Gen. E C. Darlington, for Ellen NJ. Parker,
today filed a petition for a writ OF habeas
corpus to George T. Parker. commanding him
to produce before the court the body of Philip
Walker Parker, an infant about twenty months
Of age. She sets forth her marriage in 1885,
that she has one child, and says that on or
about the Sd instant she called upon one
DR.. Gustavus r. Brown, a dentist of high
standing and character, when. to her surprise,
her husband came into the Office of said Brown
and. without explanation, discharged several
pistol shots at him. when she left in a high
state OF alarm without opportunity for ex-
PLANTATION. She says her husband took
possession of the child while asleep
| and in his night dress and has avowed
and to apply for a divorce upon the false
charge, as she supposes from his conduct OF
infidelIty on her part. She states that she has
been chaste, loyal and affectionate wife, and
says his conduct was cruel. brutal and withou,
cause, and is inexplicable except on the theory
that he was prompted by spirit Of jealousy.
which amounted to insanity She therefore
prays the production and the award of the
| custody of the child to her. There being no
judge at the court house the writ has not been
issued.
PARKER's BILL FOR DIVORCE.
To-
of the pistol shots fired at DIR. Gustavus Brown
by Mr.. G. T. Parker, on account of the alleged
intimacy OF the former with the wife OF the
la tier it was stated that the husband had en-
gagged Lawyer A; H. Bell to prepare papers for
a divorce with DIR. Brown correspondent.
The bill for divorce was filed this morning at
$50 o'clock by Bell. The complainant Parker
states in the bill that he and his wife have re-
sided in the District for twenty years; that his
marriage to the defendant, whose name was
Turner, took place October 10, 1885, by Rev.
DR.. Tressel of the Grace Lutheran Church;
that OF this marriage two children
were born to her and one Of them,
and is now under his care He further states
that he and his wife lived together till Septem-
Der /, 1890, without his entertaining any sus-
picion that his wife was otherwise than a good
and chaste woman; that on the last mentioned
day information came to him which convinced
him to the contrary; that being deter
mined to investigate said charges and
prove or disprove them he left his
residence, 1910 10th street, ostensibly land
informing defendant SOY for New York, but in
reality remaining IN Washington with the
further: THAT on the afternoon Of September
complainapt received word that the defendant