St. Paul daily globe., 1890-10-10
THE HEAD DIVORCE CASE.
The Husband and Wife Tell En-
tirely Different Tales.

tirely Different Tales.
The trials of the Head family. which
have at various times hovered like
cloud over the social horizon, came up
i'll circuit court yesterday, in a suit by
Ellen l. Thomas Head against her hus-
band, Ernest K. Head, for divorce. The
lady was in court in company with her
mother, who, of course, poses as the
mother-in-law in the case. She took
the stand first, and a murmur or some
thing like admiration wnet about the
room as the trim figure in the natty
tailor made suit, and jannty sailor hat
above the perfect aquilive features, took
the chair and looked saucely toward
Bob Jamison, her counsel, and stated
her age at twenty-seven years. She
said that they were married Nov.
Is, 1887. She .had lived in Minneapo-
lis for seven years. When first married
they had lived at SO Wright street south
with her mother. Previous to their
marriage Mr.. Head had lived at their
house and taken his meals at the Nicol-
let
She had worked as hired girl for the
board of boht at the house of her mamma.
She told of the incident of MIR. Head
finding the photograph. She said he
came down stairs with glaring eyes,
looking like a demon, and abused her
very much. The witness was soon Sob
bing bitterly and the trial proceeded in
tears.
''State TO the court what occurred at
your first quarrel" said Mr.. Jamison
1T was about picture. Mother and
/ went down to Riggs and had my
picture taken. 1t was finished before
our marriage, and l put it into the bu-
reau drawer. Some time after we were
married. when l was at WORK down
stairs, heard him rush down stairs in
a towering rage with the picture. He
was in fearful condition. He rushed
at NE, and then pushed mamma into a
room and locked the door. Then he
pushed me in a chair and raised his
hand to strike me. Don't you know
better than to have picture taken like
this? Mamma told him that she had
the picture taken, and not me. / got
away and ran up stairs and locked the
door, and he came up and pounded on
the door. He said if l didn't open it he
would smash in the door. Then /
opened it and he dragged me down
StairS.''
10 The testimony was but repetition of
quarrels and set-tos, in which he invari-
ably got the best of it. On croSs-eXami-
uotiOu oitS HclO W u6T SLOIy uTIuIy, anu
her evidence was not shaken. Late in
the afternoon her mother. Mrs. Thomas,
went on the stand and corroborated
part of her daughters testimony. When
he had tried to frighten them with pis-
tolls, she had told him he had better sell
the guns and buy some feed for his
horse.
The counsel for the defense tried to
put a letter written from the Hotel st.
Louis to her mother in evidence, but it
was objected to and it did not go in.
When Head was put on the stand he
tried to instruct the court in the order
of procedure. but Judge Young eyed
him coldly, and would not have it.
He simply denied all the stories point
blank; said there had never been a
quarrel, and that high words had never
been held. They lived happily to-
gether. He had never seized her nor
scolded her, nor abused her. He de-
MED all about there being a quarrel
about the picture, and said that Ella
had simply lied about it. His examina-
ton will be continued this morning.