The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-15
WOES OF: META AND NAT
The Unsavory Goodwins Make q
Stand-Off in Their Scandal
Gus Charges.
She Says He Nearly Killed Her
While They Were in
5 Helena. '"..% ~..+'
Also, That He Almost Her in a
Bath ut Anaconda-Ho Says She
Drinka.

Goodwin have bsen showed under ny a
multitude of new charges made IN tho
amended plsadings. These we're used yes
terday on a motion for an additional ooun-
aal fee for her, which Justice lnxraham
denied.
Tn her first suit Mrs. Goodwin asked for
a limited divorce on the sole ground OF
abandonment. She said that her hnsoano
had deserted her after she had been IN
inred in a carriage accident. Her counssi
i Rritton Havons, obtained an order from
~,rustice Lawrence last June granting her
$75 a week alimony and a counsel ice o1
$3.50. She asked yesterday tor an
tional allowance for counsel OF $2,oOo 90
procure evidence of %cruelty.
She saws now that while they were living
topathsr IN West End avenue her husband
came home drunk one night, swors 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 knott before i'm and begged OF nlm 70
stop. This charge the actor denies.
AT Tenwick hall, Saybrook, in August
1889, he had been continually gambling, sne
says. lost heavily, and vented has anger On
hnr. One night he came back from tho
gsmn. ssid he had lost hundreds OF dollars,
and struck her . stunning oloW on sne
head. This the actor denies.
This following day he returned to New
York. Several days later she found hlm a.
tho Hoffman house, and learned ina. "
had been on a prolonged spree. he cried,
and appeared to BIO repentant. Inc next
day hs struck her. This the actor denies.
While thew were at Toronto in SsptemDer:
1889. she says he repeatedly struck her. All
of which the actor denies.
~ - TE1 --l l.-koI s~& m ~ Nan I
TENDER, 1883, while grossly lnto1lcateu, as
she saws, he cursed and severely beat her,
and caused her great fright by pretending
to throw himself from the window IN an
upper story to kill himself. Her lllness
followed, which brought her to the POM
Of death. Mr.. Goodwin says her Illness
was the result of being thrown from her
carriage. He says he nursed her then him
self and procured a physician tor her:
While they were in Anaconda. Mont,
and she was in her bath, she says, ne came
into the bathroom "orazod with drink, his
hair standing on end. his eyes bloodshot
and bullying out of his head" he tnen
shouted: s.Now I have got you whore want
YOU. / am going to drown you. All your
Jewels are gone. I gambled them away. !
have been gambling all night and nave lost
everything He then turned on the water.
althonph the bath was neatly full, and he
held her head under. BY 4 desperate effort
aha released herself. IIe then struck her
some terrible blows md threw her across
the bed in an adjoining room ana sue
thought her back was broken.
Mr.. Goodwin says she threw her jewels
(which had been his first wife's) at HIM IN
q fit Of drunken anger, and that 20 returned
them. He never saw her in a bath IN ms
life. ,
In Paris in 1890, she says, when she had
he left their hotel and went TO London,
leaving her without money or friends; "A
week later she learned that he was leading
a fast life in London. She telegraphsd for
money, went to London. and found him
living in the creates. Injury , ne = met ner
He says that he was driven out OF his
sick room by the anger, drunkenness and
irritability of his wife, and that his physl-
clan ordered him to go away ln1medlatsly
Before he departed he gave his VITO Sl,OOO.
He was still sick and under the care OF q
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,
whe they reached thor room, struck her
again 80 that she fell. and her spine was
injured. MIR. GoodW denies tnese
charges.
She saws he nearly killed her at the
Broadwater hotel at Helena. She rang fol
help, and when a bell boy came she sem
for one of Mr.. GoodWin's theatrlca
friends. Mr.. Goodwin snid to his friend
with a horrible oath: You can have her i
YOU want her."
He saws that his wife attempted to fir
with his friend, who took it loosely. H1
wife said she meant no harm. After "
little %jocular conversation Mr.. Goodwin
SAYS, knowing his friend to be a gentleman
and a man of honor, Il jestingly said t
the plaintiff: I will leave you IN eac!
others society,"" To his friend he said
"You can have her. don't want her." IL
adds: 1.-The whole occurrence WAS a mer
pleasantly, plaintiff being slightly intoz'
Gated"
She says that since she began the sui
she has had to hire a Waterman to keep hin
out of her house in West End avenue. IL
once tried to get in disguised as a telegrat
messenger boy. Again he tried to get i
the pretext that he was a telegraph line
man. He tried to get in by the doors. an
employed a looksanith. On Aug. ID last
while she was standing at q window OF til
parlor, in the presence of a crowd III tn
street he smashed the window with a ham
mer. One of the pieces of glass cut hs
head. Mr.. Goodwin says he owns tbs house
He SAYS that his wife has been addicte
to drink since October, 1889, has locke
him in his room at theater time or trai
time, scratched his face and accused hi
of various things. On a train from Dulut
to Chicago, in June, 1880, she was drum
While he was conyersing with two ladies
his company and six gentlemen, shs SEIZE
him violently and tried to drag him ava
She said: "How dare you associate with
woman of your ompany while ] am on IL
train?" He tried to expostulate wit
her, and she tried to pull the be
cord to stop the train. With a
sistancs ne released hor hold of Il
bell cord. She drank intemperatoly on tt
steamship La Bourgogns III June, 1890, ar
her bar bill for seven days cost him 81
She accused him of intimacy with sever
women. and once, in 1890, ct St. Louis, 81
swallowed a little diluted carbolic acid, o
of unfeunded jealously. Her repeat
charges of this kind made things unplea
ant for the actresses who appeared wi
him. She was Jealous of every woman
ever knew. not excepting her own Biste
She even aunrrelled with him because
showed natural affection for his mother.
MIR. Goodwin calls attention to an at1id
Wit she made on May 4. 1891, to be used
her motion for alinnony, in which she ga
he had maintained her in luxury, given b
a%retinue of servants. and allowed her r
money of 800 Il week. procured Il beautif
villa in tho suburbs of London for her, a
placed Il stem. yacht at her disposal III t
Thames. This was to show that he h
money. bat he thinks it shows now that
spent it f eely for her. Mrs. Goodwin ST
his earnings have been averaging $4,000
year, and that he has $4,000 in realty a
securities. He admits her allegation IL
he is a weil-knovn actor.