St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-20

| hand over her mouth until she stopped.
| did not choke her nor tell her | would
| conquer her or kill her. We were in
the cellar way about five seconds
AT the cellar way scene did you call her
! she devil?''
NO SIR
He told about her buying a green
plush dress to which he objected, and al
| the same time getting eight other
dresses, the making OF which cost Sl36.
He admitted that he struck her over
! the hand with cane once when he was
! Ill. She kept worrying hum about Lucia,
| and said the child was hers and that the
court would
Give u TO Her.
lie told about his sickness, and re-
! queSted not to be left alone with Mrs.
| Warner. as her incessant talking wor-
| ried him.
He spoke of several occasions when
she would follow him down town and
| importune him TO make out papers Civ
| ing her property.
Questioned as to the time of DR.. Bart
let's visit, Mr.. Warner said that Mrs
| Warner had made demands Oh several
occasions for portion of his property.
Witness had mentioned $4,000, and
| she said that was not enough.
Mr.. Warner mad asked that in case his
! property amounted to 100000, if a half
of that would be enough, and Mrs. War
| ner had said yes, that she ought to have
half his property.
He stated that Mrs. Dunning had told
him that Mrs. Warner had i'll the pres
ence Of BeSS charged her with
Being Eais Wife
the same that Mrs. Warner is except she
had no chlid-she was too old TO have 4
child. The next day she went to his
Office and charged him with adultery
with Mrs. Dunmng.
Il don I like 10 repeat the remark she made.
She followed me down town and l tried to
get clear of her. | finally went to the Office
of Gen. johnson and told him to keep her
there She came iii and repeated to HIN The
charges of adultery. We had very bitter
words the next day. told her would not
stand II; she must make written retTacton.
she SAID she would retract bat would not
submit ii to writing. As TO the incident
when the Mays came to the house, he stated
that Mrs. Warner had come 10 MIN
after dinner, showed him remnants of
lace and ribbon and said that Bess had cut
them from her clothing and denied il. She
sald Eess was little thief, and was educated
10 IT, lie did not believe the story, but told
her to bring the garments TO him. He
matched The pieces, and afterwards learned
that Mrs. Warner had told the truth, and he
was much worried. MIS-. Warner went off.
with Luc a Ill her arms. lie ordered her out
of the room, but she
Pushed Him Back
toward the bed trying to catch hold of his
beard and 10 scratch his face. She jumped
INTO the bed and said she was going 10 I'M
dress and stay there all night. While she
was on the bed the Mays came ill.,
He did not drag her about the room nor
choke her, nor throw her on The bed. The
only violence he used was to hold up his
n hn of A lr,ff tub
and stone as large mans fist were ex-
hibited, and he said she hit him on the leg
with the cover and threw the stone at him.
Before that she was at the barn, and walked
III front of the horse 10 have him run it over
her. lie caught her by the shoulder, and
pushed her out of the way. After the incl
dent in the bedroom, when the Mays came
in. she went away and few DAYS after be-
gan The first divorce action. The day after the
paper were served she came 10 him and put
her arms around his neck and said: Don't
you want mamma and Lucia back ? He re-
piled, You Know what l want if you do
flght, Out she must sign retraction Of the
Charge of Adultery,
She replied, You did that and worse On
sept y, after that she came TO the house and
changed her dress. ana followed Inc 10
churcn, after refused TO stay at home with
her. walked home with her from church
q, her request. Two days later she came TO
the house and was very affectio3ate and
said all was forgotten. | told her there would
be no reconciliation until she signed Il
retraction The retraction was signed Octob-
er .. and we lived together again. October &
she asked for Il deed for the homestead and
q settlement of the $50 per month. She Wis
tied Macon City, Mo-. i'll February and April
1883 Her mother was very iii the first time
The second time she took two large trunks
with her that cost seventy-tive cents foreXtra
baggage She had gone 10 stores and bought
Sl0O worth of goods of which $3.50 was for
handkerchiefs. She also took lace counter
\ M Sb a G
must discharge one of the servants as |
was getting too Intimate with her. She
wanted me 10 redeem a place of hers that
rad been sold for 5 800 due thereon and to
rent II to her, and was very much provoked
when woul1 not do So She came TO the
once one day and wanted TO SIT at my desk
while was going out OH an Grand ! re-
fused to allow her. and when she stepped to
Inc other side of the room | shut ii up and it
fastened with spring lock She was very
angry, called me damned old fool and
struck me. She scolded and said she would
tell SIX persons about
The Way Did
and would go to Capt BTekey ana get the
$1,000, and ] should indorse the note for that
amount. When her brothern-law, Mr..
Pierce came on a visit she acted badly about
meeting them at the depot The night they
were i'll the house she talked until , a. m,
wanting me to make over property to her.
She called me ''darned fool" and nasty
sinking old fool'' fifty times that night. She
said at the table next day that the visitors
were my friends and not hers. When asked
| what room she slept in in the fail of 1889. he
said that she slept i'll several rooms. She re-
| CURED the children to sleep in cold room
! during the winter of 1SS9-99. In
March she put the cat and three
| kittens in Que of the best front rooms up
! stairs against his remonstrances. He com
| planned about her housekeeping, and said
| the bedbugs were so Lad that he could not
sleep. He denied running at her with a hot
lamp chimney or threatening to kill her
! She bought $3.50 seaskin coat against his
| wishes On cross-examination he said she
| had not had a seal coat before that. She
| whipped Lucia hard for wanting to go to bed
/ NJ Z O'Clock. ana went TO the piano and
! played While the child sat on the floor and
cried He told her to care for the child first
and play the piano after. She toen took up
the child and continued playing the piano.
lie denied knocking her off the piano
| stoo! at this time, as has ben claimed.
! She said that 1t he went to Alice's for din
! ner she would go up and make row. She
asked him if he went to Chicago to have
4 Gandestine Meeting
with Mrs. Cunning, and threatened to shoot
her if she came to the house. On Oct.
| she said You were up with Mrs. Dunnng
last night were you:' Shecame into church
fered said TO him in a whisper,
| old auntie is here. Let her go
and pass the hat, you old hypocrite.
As he was going cut of the church he met
| Mrs. Myron ana told her Mrs. Hitchcock and
Mrs. Dunning were in the city, Mrs Warner
came TO him and asked why he did not in
troduce her to them, and Afterwards asked
why he was always talking about that old
| woman. on the way home she talked so
violently that he shook off her arm and told
ner to stop talking. She then fell off the
sidewalk and gave TWO or three faint cries
for help. He did not use any violence at that
| Time
Mr.. Warner was turned over to Mr.
Wellington for cross examination. In
an effort to get at the cause of the
! trouble between them Mr.. Warner was
asked If it was because of her expensive
habits. He replied that there was no
trouble about personal expenses, but
he objected to her buying certain
things. He began to object to her pur-
chases soon after they were married.
He denied that he had stated that her
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