The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-03-18
From Tuesdays Daily.
HER HONOR INDICATED,
JUDGE FULLER GRANTS A De
CREE OF DIVORCE TO
MRS. WILLIAMS.
The Name Of Pure and Noble Woman
Remains Unsullied---The Last Hours
Of the c.se---A Very Just Decision
Court Room Occurrences

b Remains Unsullied---T The Last Hours
Of the case---A Very Just Decision
Court Room Occurrences.
In the concluding portion ofyesterday
afternoons testimony, Mrs. Williams
made decided point when she told the
court that even this very day she was
willing to 60 back and live with her hus-
band as man and wife. She said Mr..
Williams ridiculed her views on religion
y llsr,esstii iitious,
.which incensed her somewhat, abnt that
usually she was very patient with him.
She testified they talked about religion
before they were married and that the
husband offered 10 objection to the
ceremony being performed by a priest;
that the O'Malley girl was not a. relig-
ious fanatic, that she was companion
able person of considerable education
and that when plaintiff accompanied
her (defendant) to church, which he did
four or five times, he always conducted
himself becomingly during the service.
Mrs. Williams resumed her place in
the witness stand this morning and Mr..
Fowler took up the thread OF the cross
examination. Referring to particular
incident brought out in the examination
OF plaintiff in which he alleged that de-
fendant denied him the marital rights,
the witness could not remember such an
occasion and felt sale in saying that the
allegation was not based on facts. Prob
ably as touching q scene as has ever
been enacted in this court room took
place when Judge Fuller asked the wit
ness il she ever suspected her husband
Of unfalthfulness to her. She was
preceptlbly agitated, her lips quivered,
her eyes filled and her face became ashy
pale as she answered that she had al
ways had the most unbounded conf
dence in the man and supposed when
he remained ott at night, he must have,
been in the lodge room, stating further
that this belief was hastened by the
knowledge that Mr.. Williams was not
strong healthy man, concluding by say
ing that she did not know human ature
then, as we'll as now. Here the witness
broke down and sobbed bitterly, caus-
ing strong men to make strange motions
towards their eyes. Proceeding the wit
ness again testified that all her overtures
for peace were spurned, she admitted
that she might have said to Miss Neill
that she preferred 8 protestant servant
glrl because her husband was OF that
persuasion, she confessed to having
spent considerable time IN the company
OF the O'Malley girl, to having helped
her in her business. to having gone
to the hospital to visit her
during the girls illness and
to the fact that she was afterwards sent
to an insane asylum. The witness
stated that the poor girl had neither
relatives nor friends and she naturally
took a deep interest in her, particularly
when she had served the witness SO
faithfully and had then lost her power
OF speech from sickness. She swore that
she was never away from home when
she expected her husband, but he was
absent 80 much that it was hard to tell
when he would be in the house. She ad-
mitted he exercised the rights OF hus-
band during the year 1885, eve were
man and wife properly" that year, SAID
the witness, and che came to my room
| regularly twice or three times week"
| said she. She said that she could not
then give up her husband and live alone,
that she wanted him for help mate
through life, that she did not want to
sever connection with him and that
plaintiff had on one occasion asked her
to leave her home and take lodgings
in other apartments. She emphat-
ically and with unusual warmth.
denied ever having stated to Miss Neill
that she (the witness) did not believe in
protestant and catholics intermingling
as man and wife, or that she ever ste led
that the fact OF her husband not ng
a:catholic was the cause OF her nd ar
ing children as the idea was too redicu-
lous to be thought OF much less ex-
pressed. She again stated that she had
no recollection whatever OF any par
ticular Sunday dinner when they had a
duck and bottle OF wine and Mr.. Will
Jams put his arm around her. She con-
suited witha Mr.. O'Brien lawyer In
Rochester, after Mr., Williams had made
repeated propositions to her Tor 4. sep
aration, She said catholics should
marry catholics, but that 10 marrying
Mr.. Williams she was directed entirely
by her affection for him, hoping that
some day he would become catholic.
The witness displayed much agitation
when Mr.. Fowler asked her which she
would rather give up, today, her hus
band or the church. The Judge said
that she need not answer the question
as it meant which she preferred, man OF
God. Mrs. Williams testified that hel
husband had exercised the martha
rights since July LIST 1887, thus refutins
one OF the allegations in the plaintiffs
tcomplaint.
Here the counsel for both sides retired
to the judges chambers to consult ani
tits understood stipulation was mad,
that in case defendant was given a dl
vorce, the question OF alimony would b,
continued for two months.
John r. Brennan, having found tn,
missing register, produced it ane
showed the name OF William William
thereon May 8, 1891, which Mr.. Brown
identified as being in the hand writing o
i ntainfin