Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-28
Mrs. Powers Makes Reply.

In the Circuit Court Of Baltimore
county, Md, at Towson on Saturday
counsel for Mrs. Louise Shelley Pow
ers, wife of Rev. w. H. H. Powers, rec
tor of Trinity P. Z. Church, filed an an
swer to the application of the clergy
man for a partial divorce.
Mrs. Powers alleges that 'many O
the charges made in Mr.. Powers's com
plant are utterly false and without
any foundation in fact, while Other
charges are stated in such form-fact
and fiction being so adroitly interwov
en-that the inference drawn there
from, while apparently logical, is in
point of fact untruthful and absurd
Facts are alleged without reference to
the causes which produced the results
as averred and which causes, when
shown by evidence, will give to such
causes an entirely different force and
color. Thus it is true, as alleged, that
Mrs. Powers is possessed ola high and
at times ungovernable temper, which
has vented itself in such forms as to
subsequently cause her much sorrow
and grief, facts well known to Mr..
Powers during the four years of court
ship preceding marriage
Mrs. Powers admits that she has,
"when wrought up and aggravated by
the unsympathetlc and acrimonious
treatment OF Mr.. Powers. offered vio-
lence to his person. but expressly de-
mics that she has ever been guilty OF
such acts toward her children"
The bill states that Mrs. Powers has
been willing to agree to quiet separa-
ton, provided her husband would make
provision for the support OF herself and
children, but she has been driven to q
defense against the charges made and
full revelation and explanation of the
circumstances attending her domestic
life in order that JUSTICE may be done
her by court.
Mrs. Powers states that she will be
compelled to bring number of wit
nesses from Virginia and that she will
require alimony end counsel fees dur
ing the pending of the divorce suit.
She alleges that she is wholly without
resources. During her infancy she
was adopted by an uncle who, upon
his death few years ago, bequeathed
her an annuity of $500. This has been
spent upon the education of her chill
dren and has been anticipated for near
ly two years.
The bill declares that Mrs. Powers SIS
obliged to remain alone in the rectory at
Towson in an almost destitute condition un-
til she is supplied with means to remove else
where. Her family are not possessed Of such
means as to contribute to her support in any
way, and tie contest forced upon her by this
proceedings win necessarily largely increase
her expenses. Mr.. Powers avsrs in MS bill of
complaint that he has an income of about
$500 year He has in addition home
provided Tor him by his congregation, and
will have with him two daughters who have
been educated largely at the eSBen5s 9f his
wife and uncle, which daughters Will be OF
great assistance to him and save to him much
expense. He has been sending to Mrs. Pow
ers the sum of $40 week for her support
since he filed the bill, but he has caused rep
reservations to be made to her that this sum
will be reduced"
It is understood that the court will bs asked
to allow Mrs. Powers SIS week while the
case is pending and $500 for counsel fees.