Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-02
NAT GO0DWIN'S WIFE
Charges the Popular Actor With
Nearly All Kinds of Cruelty.
LIVELY SCENE IN A BATHROOM,
Where She Says He Tried to Drown Her
While He Was Drunk, and
had GLMBLED AWAY ALL HIS MONEY


separation from the actor, Nathaniel G.
Goodwin, have been showed under by q
multitude of new charges made in the
amended pleadings These were used to-
day, on motion for an additional counsel
fee for her, which Justice Ingraham denied.
| In her first suit Mrs. Goodwin asked for
limited divorce on the sole ground OF
abandonment. She said that her husband
had deserted her after she had been injured
| in q carriage accident Her counsel, A.
Britton Havens, obtained an order from
Justice Lawrence last June granting her
$75 week alimony and q counsel fee of
$3.50. She asked to-day for an additional
allowance for counsel of $4,000. to procure
| evidence of cruelty.
She says now that while they were living
| together in West End avenue her husband
came homo drunk one night, swore at her,
dragged her out of bed with his hands about
her throat, threatened to choke her, and
| would not relinquish his hold when she
knelt before him and begged Of him to stop.
This charge the actor denies
More Cruelty Charges Denied.
At Fenwick Hall, Saybrook, in August,
1889, he had been continually gambling,
she says, had lost heavily, and vented his
anger on her. One night he came back
from the game, said he had lost hum
dreds of dollars, and struck her stunning
blow on the head. This the actor also de-
MES
The following day he returned to New
York. Several days later she found him at
the Hoffman House and learned that he
had been on prolonged spree. He cried
and appeared to be repentant. The next
day he struck her. This the aotor denies.
/ While they were In Toronto, in Septem-
Der, 1889, she says he repeatedly struck her
and cursed her, all of which the actor de-
nieR At the Leland Hotel, in Chicago, in
September, 1889, while intoxicated, as she
says, he cursed and severely beat her, and
caused her great fright by pretending to
throw himself from their window in an
upper story, to kill himself An illness
followed, which brought her to the point of
death.
Mr.. Goodwin says her illness was the re-
suit Of being thrown from her carriage. He
says he nursed her then himself and pro-
cured q physician for her.
Plot for . Bathroom Play.
While they were at Anaconda, Mont, and
she was In her bath, she says, he came into
the bathroom, ''crazed with drink, his hair
standing on ends, his eyes bloodshot and
bulging out of his head" He then shouted:
Snow have got you where I want you.
am going to drown you. All your jewels
are gone. I gsmbled them away. have
been gambling all night, and have lost
everything"
He then turned on the water, although
the bath was nearly full, and he held her
head under. By desperate effort she re-
terrible blows, and threw her with such
force across the bed in the adjoining room
that she thought her back was broken.
Mr.. Goodwin says she threw her jewels
(Which had been his first wife's) at him in
. fit Of drunken anger, and that he returned
them. He never saw her in a bath in his
life.
InParis, in 1890, she says, when she had
nursed him through protracted illness, he
left their hoGel and went to London, leav-
ing her without money or friends. A week
later she learned that he was leading fast
life in London. She telegraphed for money,
went to London, and found him living in
the greatest luxury. He met her with ''the
vilest abuse and threats"
Nat Calls His wife Drunkard.
He says he was driven out of his sick
room by the anger, drunkenness and irrita-
bility Of his wife, and that his physicians
ordered him to 60 away Immediately Be-
lOre he uSPs!Seu HS gAve HIS WIG ,oUu.
He was still SICK and under the care of
physician when she rejoined him in Lon
don.
In London, she alleges. he struck her in
the face at the theater, struck her again on
the stairs Of the Victoria Hotel, and when
they reached their room struck her again so
that she fell and her spine was injured.
Mr.. Goodwin denies these charges
She says he nearly killed her at the
Broadwater Hotel, at Helena She rang
for help, and when q bellboy came she sent
for one Of Mr.. Goodwin's theatrical friends
Mr.. Goodwin said to his friend, with hor-
rible oath, 'You can have her if you want
her.
He said that his wife attempted to flirt
with his friend, who took it jocosely. His
wife said she meant no harm.
After - little jocular conversation" MI.
Goodwin says, knowing his friend to be
gentleman and . man Of honor he jestingly
said to the plaintiff: 'T will leave you in
each Others society" To his friend he
said: "You can have her. 1 don't want
her." He adds, ''The whole occurrence
was 9 mere pleasantly, plaintiff being
slightly intoxicated"
APrivate Watchman Necessary.
She says that since she began the suit she |
has had to hire a watchman to keep him out |
of her house in West End avenue. He
once tried to get in disguised as messenger !
boy. Again he tried to gain entrance |
from the roof of an adjoining house, upon |
the pretext that he was telegraph line |
man. He tried to get in by the doors, and |
employed locksmith.
On August l, last, while she was standing
1T the window of the parlor, in the presence
of crowd in the street, he smashed a win
dow with . hammer. One of the pieces of
glass cut her head.
Mr.. Goodwin says he owns the house. He
says that his wife has been addicted to
drink since October 1888; has locked him in
his room at the theater, time after time,
his face, and accused him of vari-
JUS things On train from Duluth to
Chicago, in June, 1890, she was drunk.
While he was conversing with two ladies of
ais company, and six gentlemen, she seized
him violently and tried to drag him away.
She said: "How dare you associate with
voman of your company while am on the
rain?" He tried to expostulate with her,
md she tried to pull the bell cord to stop
he train. With assistance he released her
lold Of the bell cord.
Big Bar Bill for . Week.
She drank intemperately on the steam
hip La Bourgogne, in June, 1890, and
Ter bar bill for seven days cost him $40.
'he accused him of intimacy with several
women, and once, in 1890, at St Louis,
he swallowed . little diluted carbolic acid,
tut of unfounded jealousy. Her reported
harges of this kind made things unpleas-
mt for the actresses who appeared with |
i'm She ieo louc of xuon,o N he avap |