The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-08
A WIFE'S SUFFHRINGS.
Their Recital in Court
ArouseS the Chancel-
lors Indignation.
BRUTAL LEWIS TERHUNE.
He Repeatedly Knocked his Wife
lnsensible, and He Buried his
Twin Children in a Lot
Without Ceremony.

It is exceedingly difficult to imagine a
man who could so brutaliy and fiendishly
abuse the woman he had promised to
love and protect as Lewis Terhune. Of
Railway. was accused of having done in
the Court OF Chancery this morning. It
was such an aggravated case Of cruelty
that Chancellor McGill itook occasion to
say SO and readily grantediwhat the coun-
sci for Mrs. Terhune asked. The case
came up upon the application of Mrs.
Lizzie A. Terhune for alimony and coun-
sci fee pending the decision OF the suit
for divorce
The petition shows that the parties
were married in Railway in August, 1856
and went to live on a farm two miles
from Railway, where Terhune raised
early vegetables and garden truck which
he sold at Newark. Mrs. Terhune alleges
that shortly after her marriage she dis
covered that her husband was of a
brutal. cruel and disagreeable disposi-
ton" His brother Isaac, who was man
Of the same disposition, was the only
other member of the household.
Both men tantalized her and annoyed
her with their coarse, indecent talk, and
Knocked her until her life there became
unbearable. In addition to this he fire.
quently beat her. One morning in the
spring Of 1889 she went out to the barn to
try to get him 10 come TO breakfast, when
he struck her in the back with a pail and
she became unconscious from pain.
KNOCKED HER THROUGH A DOORWAY.
On another occasion his coarse, obscene
language became SO unbearable that she
demonstrated with him. whereupon he
struck her in the face and knocked her
out of the back door. She fell down a
flight OF stone steps and struck her head
on them The blood flowed down over
ner face and she became unconscious.
Her sister, who was visiting her, picked
her up and carried her into the house. but
1t was some time before she recovered
consciousness.
One morning when her husband was
about to drive 70 town she got into the
wagon to accompany him. when he threw
her out into manure pile and told her TO
lie there. for there was where che be-
lopged. She could not stand this treat
ment, she alleges, and so she went 70
Newark and obtained employment. She
remained at Newark until June, when
she went back to her husband Terhune
aud his brother Isaac ordered her out and
told her TO 90 TO her father and let him
support her. She refused TO go. however,
and ran up to her room, where
she remained two days and two nights
through fear of her husband and his
brother. Then she returned to Newark
and obtained employment again. But last
September she went back TO her hus-
bands home once more. When she arrived
there she found her husbands sister at
work there. The sister asked her IL she had
come for her clothes. She paid no attention
to the sister, but went into the parlol ana
sat down. In a few minutes her husband
came in and gave her five minutes To get
Ota no rat zad To ffn an WINS nl lnfv von
TO remain over night.
TERHUNE WAS HIS OWN UNDERTAKEN.
The next morning her husband went to
Railway saying that he was going TO have
her arrested and when he returned in the
evening he was hopping mad" He
again gave her five minutes In which to
leave the house, but she refused his offer.
Then he and his sister put ner clothes in
a basket and set them out on the back
stoop, and telling his sister TO shut the
door quick he showed his wife of the stoop
and sprang back into the house. The
wife fell down the steps and, striking her
head ON the stones, became uncon-
scious. IL was raining, and the falling
water on her face revived her and though
wet to the skin she managed to drag her.
self to the lhouse of a neighbor where she
has remained ever since.
Mrs. Terhune also states in her petition
that she gave birth to twins. one OF which
was dead and the other died shortly af-
terward Her husband would not allow
her physician at their birth. and when
they were dead he went to the barn and
knocked together box of rough boards.
The twins were placed in the box, the lid
nailed down and then Terhune and his
brother Isaac took them down to the pas
ture lot, behind the house, and blurred
them.
Chancellor McGill allowed Mrs. Ter
hume 50 week alimony and SIS counsel