The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-03-18

the kitchen. He attributed her refusal to
have intercourse with him to the girls infu-
ence. She remained with them for several years
when he finally insisted on her discharge;
called on his wife once a month and asked her
to live with him; called in May, 1888, and re.
newed his request. then again i'll June, 1888,
when she became angry and said she was
packing up to 60 to her mothers, to which he
objected. He came to Rapid City in May 1891
to reside and make his home.
In cross examination the witness stated he
first came to Rapid City on May 5th. 1891,
that he had been back and forward between
Rochester and Rapid City three times stopping
in Chicago, New York City, Omaha and other
places and that he had been kept very busy on
this case and hence had to spend a great deal
Of time in taking dispositions back east. lie
admitted having spent about two-thirds of bis
time in South Dakota since May 1891, mostly
in Rapid City and while here was all the time
lat Hotel Harvey. He stated he had been
about thirty years in the shoe business, and that
at present was a stakeholder in a shoe corpor-
alton with a capital Of SIoo, ooo, he owning
$4,000 of the stock. He also stated that he
owned a house and lot and some other propertp
in Rochester including furniture and paintings,
that he owned two lots i'll Rapid City for
which he paid $16o ard that he had taken a
homestead in the Hills, on which his attorney
Francis Fl. Clarke had at one time 4 filing.
He had built a IONIC foot house on this
claim and had intended making it his home.
He had no business in South Dakota but may
engage in the smoked ham trade. He stated
he had never neglected Mrs. Williams, nor
had he ever abscntcd himself very much from
home, did not forbid Mrs. Williams relatives
to visit his house, and had never suffered
from any chronic disease between the years
1884 and 1887. In a conversation with his
wife she averred that he had a private dis
ease, when he expressed surprise that as pious
a woman as she professcd to be, should allow
such thoughts to enter her mind. lie knew
positively that his wife was never troubled
with an infectious or contagious disease be-
tween the years 1884 and 1887. He broke
up house keeping in August, 1887, because Of
being uncomfortable. In the redirect exam-
nation the witness stated that neither his
wife nor himself were diseased in 1855, 1856
and 1887. The Judge here refused to hear
anything further on the subject, stating that
he might have the stomach ache himself
some time.
Miss Minnie Neill testified that Mrs. Will
Jams stated she preferred to have a Protestant
girl because her husband was OF that persuas-
ion, although she herself was a Catholic. She
also testified that Mrs, Williams always
locked her door at night, saying it was wicked
to have children by protestant men, that she
was always very cold and obstinate toward
her husband and that she remembered Mr..
Williams going into his wifc's room once and
that scolding and loud talking followed.
The dispositions of VIM. II. Thollens and
DR.. Rnben A. Adams Of Rochester and A. G..
McShane Of Rapid City went to prove the
plaintiff a resident Of this state.