Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-04
Broke up thcBrcakfass.

According to story told by Mrs. Leila
S. Frost in Justice Meade's private
room in Harlem Police Court on Tues
day, her husband got up an entertain
ment for their guests at breakfast last
Sunday morning that she does not wish
repeated.
Her complaint was that her husband
tried to kill her, and though the man
denied the accusation the justice held
him in 1000 bonds The woman, who
is thirty-eight years old, was richly
dressed when she appeared IN court.
Her husband is fortytwo years old.
Dancing Master Eugene B. A. White,
his wife and child, of Mountainville, n.
y, and fourteen-year-old Clara Webb
were breakfasting with the Frosts on
last Sunday morning when, according
10 Mrs. Frost, her husband suddenly
left the table and went into the kitch-
en-, returning moment later with a
carving knife. lie then seized her by
the hair, drew her head down over the
back of the chair and flourished the
knife in front of her face.
The other people in the room sprang
to their feet, but offered her no protec-
ton. She broke away from the man
and ran through several rooms, into
which she tried to lock herself, but
was prevented by her husband, who,
she said, followed until she fell from
exhaustion. Then he laughed and said
he had been joking.
Mrs. Frost added that while she and
her husband were playing chess that
evening, having effected reconcilia-
tion, he declared that he would kill
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. White and Clara Webb
corroboratcd Mrs. Frost in her account
of the morning proceedings.
Frost who is a clothing salesman for 4
Brooklyn house. denied that he had tried to
harm his wife or had even threatened her
He admitted having had the knife, and said
he had proposed to the woman that she Kill
herself and that he would then end his own
life.
Matthew Webb, Clara's brother, has 4 promi-
nent part in the trouble between Mr.. and Mrs
Frost, the husband said. He is a young law
yer whose attentions to Mrs. Frost are object
cd to by the husband,
Frost declared that when his wife inherited
$4,000 from her mother year ago she gave
Webb her legal business and since then she
has spent half of the money. He said his
wife had promised TO keep away from the
young man, but he had learned they were
together on Saturday, and this knowledge led
to his outburst on Sunday morning He said
his wife used opiateS ana was hySterical. lie
admitted that he drank.
While Dancing MISTER White, who weighs
about ninety pounds, was giving his testimony
the justice asked:-
Did you see the assault"
eyes" was the reply.
"Did you interfcrcY
mo"
''Why not? Would you have let him muir
der his wife,"
The dancing master smiled and answered =
"a few years ago | interfercd in quarrel
between husband and wife. l was arrested,
arraigned before 4 police justice and dis
charged with the caution never to put my nose
in family affairs other than my own
Mrs. Frost said that two years age she be-
longed to ST. Elizabeth Guild and went to an
entertainment given by it on Randalfs Island
Hor husband got home before she did. and
when she arrived he Knocked her down and
kicked her repeatedly.
When it was announced that Frost would
be held in $4,000 Mrs. Frost's brother who
lives in Westchcster county, offered to sign the
prisoners bond, but the justice refused to ac-
cept him as bondsman and the man was
locked up.