The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-03
Nat Goodwin's Demestic Troubles.


Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
New YORK, March 2.-Nat Goodwin's
domestic troubles were aired once more in
court to-day when Justice Ingraham, in
the supreme court IN chambers, heard a
motion on behalf of Mrs Goodwin for ad-
ditioLal alimony and counsel fees in her
suit for separation from the actor. This
suit was commenced last May on the
ground of abandonment, and Mrs. Good
win was granted SO per week alimony and
$3.50 counsel fees pending the result of the
action. In August last Goodwin served an
amended answer to his wife's complaint,
setting up counter claim for separation,
and made numerous charges against his
wife of drunkenness, ETC., covering
period of two or three years. These charges
Mrs. Goodwin characterizes as outrage
ously false, and has put in an amended
complaint charging the actor with cruelty
ana lnhuman treatment while they were
living together. Your readers will recall
the story printed August IA, 1891, in which
was narrated some of the troubles between
the actor and his wife and his efforts to
obtain possession of the house at No. 90
West End avenue, which was barricaded
,.
still In possession of the house which she
claims Nat" gave her as a wedding
Christmas gift. She swears that
Goodwin Is now and has been
for long time in receipt of
$50, coo to 5000 year, and that if he is
short OF money it is due TO the fact that he
lives extravagantly and is an inveterate
gambler, and that according to his state
ments 10 her he thought nothing of losing
l q ire HtrrIr,
That III order 10 repel the charges against
her 1t will be necessary to send for wit
nesses in different parts of the country and
probably Europe, which will involve an
outlay of 81 0U0. She asks for that sum and
additional counsel fees.
In her affidavit Mrs. Goodwin recounts
numerous instances OF Goodwin's brutality
Once, she says, he tried to drown her in a
bath tub. "Nat's'' affidavit in opposit on
TO her motion states that his wife knows
full we'll that it is Injurious to his business
to have their domestic affairs made public
and she seeks TO goad him into yielding to
the demands she has made in her suit BY
circulating falsehoods concerning HIM, and
that her evident purpose is to barass and
annoy him all she can. The actor further
swears that his wife is addicted to the
whisky habit. He gives dates and place
where she was under the influence SIEVE
raj times she went to the theatre where
her husband was playing, in a state of in
toxication. On several occasions Nat wa
locked in his rooms by his irate wife.
Justice lngraham denied Mrs. Goodwin
application, saying Nothing appears in
the afidavits TO justify an additional al
| lowance to the plaintiff for counsel fees.
The Plaintiffs attorneys have been well
| paid for the services rendered in the action
up to the present time and for what will be
necessary to prepare the case for trial, and
as etenGant denies plaintiffs allegations,
nothing more should be allowed than is
necessary TO allow plaintiff to prepare her
case for trial"
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodwin were married on
October 10, 1855, in Chicago, not very long
after the death of Eliza Weathersby, the
actors first wife. The present Mrs. Good.
win had obtained divorce from her first
husband. son of one of the wealthiest
men of Buffalo, N. Y.