Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-03-31
He Deserves II Divorce.
III TALE OF CONJUGAL TOR
MENT TOLD BY WILLIAM L.
HILL IL TRUE.
He Pictures His Wife Minifred as an
Cnmifigated Hurricane OF
Wrath.
s,,,,o the st. Louis Sunday Mirror

( SUI VI
eager for q divorce from his wife,
| Vinifred. Collins Il jameson are
backing William in the Circuit Court
for ! divorce from Winifred and il
the petition 10 which William has
sworn to be the truth he should not
only have a divorce, but Il statue
| should be raised showing himself
and Job arm in arm on q pedestal.
William and Winifred were mar
ricd in the City of Brotherly Love
on Nav D., 1885, and left the city
and love behind soon after for a
residence III Rush Hill, Mo.
Whether it was the Missouri climate
or the muddy water of Rush Hill
that caused Winifred to cut up or
not William fails to state; but Wini-
fred did cut up and started the ball
rolling early in the game by striking
William with a poker, breaking all
the household utensils into smith
Greens and driving Williams pater-
| nal ancestor from the house. Then
she shook William for two long
months and went to reside in Phil
adelphia once more.
Spasm number two began when
she returned and with William took
rooms in the neighborhood of Grand
avenue and Olive street III this city.
Here she and Williams sister had a
stubborn set-to. This was in the
early winter of 1885. Winifred was
then on her best behavior for three
years and was a good Indian until
Christmas day, 1888, when she again
turned loose on Jobs descendant
and swiped him with a bottle, drove
the Christmas guests from the house
and accused William of having
murdered his father. Still he stood
it.
Later in the same winter she threw
all the available articles of the house
hold furniture she could lift at him,
accused him of undue intimacy with
the female servants, called him
names which reflected serious doubts
upon his parentage and became so
violent that for protection William
appealed to the police. Still he
stood it.
The irritable summer season then
came and caused Winifred to seek a
new target for her wrath; she Sc
lected her next-door neighbor,
whom she licked in one round.
Then William was taken i'll with
diphtheria and before he had time
to recover Winfred became jealous
OF a female nurse, fired her, dis
charged the doctor and then took
another fall out of William. Still
he stood it.
But it remained for her to put the
finishing touches on her meek and
ong-sufferinghe lpmeet while visiting
England, Ireland and France. Here
she threw wine bottles at walters
and kept late hours and got drunk
and used William up so badly that
he was on crutches for two weeks.
Wine was what Winifred was most
fond Of and on the continent she in
sisted on having it for breakfast,
dinner and supper. Since their re-
turn to st. Louis two years ago
William claims that Winifred has
been intoxicated almost the entire
time. There are three children in
the family and William wants them
all.
The LEDGER has in its columns
told the story of Hills alleged
wrongs while liyingat Rush Hill and
since in st. Louis.
William P. Hill is a man of great
erudition. He has spent half of his
life, nearly, in continental Europe.
His education was completed at the
University of Heidelberg, in Ger
many.