The sun., 1893-07-15
INC0NSTANT BY NATURE.
PARNsoN HAS NO OTHER DEFENCE TO
MAKE TO MS HIFE,s CHARGES.

Hattie Lenvitt Ons-, TO Provo Manager
Michael Isenvttt's Cruelty by q Photo
graph OF Her Bruises-Bessis TsnnehiIl,
Also nm Actress. Wants y Divorce, Too.
Norbert II Parnson has taken novel posi-
tion In the action OF his wife Rachael against
him for an absolute divorce. He is the man
ager for Charles Wolf & Co. OF 81 and SO
Greene street, ribbon manufn cturers. and. Il
was declared, ia in receipt OF an income OF
$4,000 year. On motion OF her counsel
for counsel fees and alimony before Judge
Gildersleeve OF the Superior Court yesterday.
his counsel said that Mr.. Parnson would not
contest the motion. He was willing to give
her q counsel fee Of $3.50 and slimony Of $35 a
week. This was satisfactory and the Court
SO ordered.
Parnson. who Is a tall man OF athletic build.
80 years old. said that he had nothing what
ever to say against his wife. whom he still
loved. He said that he did not seem to have
the power to resist an impulse to remain away
from home. She accuses him OF intimacy with
Constance Andrews at 226 East Thirty eighth
street. with Daisy Newman at Yonkers. and
with Pearl Meyers at Cincinnati. oil during the
past years
The following letter. which ehe says she re.
ceived from her husband the day after she
had served the papers in the case, was sub
mitted:
Nrw YoRK. July o. 1888.
Ror: was served with the papers you threatened
me with when last 1say you. The delay almost made
me believe that you had recnted sincerely regret
that this is not the 1t would have probably been
for yours and Mays bsnent had you done So As for
myself. know am guilty OF 50 much injury to you
One ,sns ssSs YOU to remsmSsF Always. that
sth'ugn h untrue to you and oy circumstance @
which common sense might have gid me could sna BY,
In this never iost my admiration for those good qual
however. and while recosnize that iorbearance OF
inE the ,empest Which knowledge OF my = m,.de!nE
M n, e sarsh WITH
with Mabel shall try In my action toward her tho
mother Believe me. / am sincere: May you Oo happy
always and live to forget unworthy Eop
Hattie Leavitt has obtained an order from
GuirinS Theatrical Manager Michael T. Leavitt
to show cause on Mond ay why he should not
a
abandonment. She would not sue Tor an alb
absolute divorce he would marry again. She
declares that he is worth not less than sl5OOOo
the the order I 70 on the averment that he expected to
In the papers she presents through he, her
counsel Howe Hummel she says she was
married to Leavitt in Nebraska In lS,s. He
was then an end man AMI she was asy vocalist
to San Francisco to begin married life. He
hadn't cent and she mad as 2 stage werdrr9be: rel
for a separation on the ground Of cruelty. hut
eyes and said he always loved me and no one
else Mrs heavt s the case she de-
with an actress in the Spider and the fly
company. At the Sturtevant House the clerk
denied yesterday that the actress in question
was living there
In her list Of alleged cruelties Mrs. Leaylttt
Ssy on pen
hand beat her back. arms. and bosom SO that
they became black and blue; and she had a
graphs taken showing the discoloration. These
will be used on the notion She says that in
house h Of iii repnte in West Twenty. fourth
street He made her. she said 60 to the house
to he confronted by a, woman. who said Mrs.
she declares he threatened to cut her throat at
149 West Thirteenth street, q house which he
80 that she alarmed the neiGhbors and he de-
sisted. She says that he has often driven her
from the house to the street whom she was but
says her husband owns 4a3 Lexington ave:
the Bush Street Theatre. San Francisco: owns
the Broadway Theatre . at Denver; Mirdsor
Il he the and the
tho Rentz ,Santlev Company $4,000 worth Of
scenery: s. 900 in Gosernmsnt mel. bonds 81 goo
counts here and n San Francisco
Edward s mao sso9
was not defended. She says that she was
cause OF his cruelty, She has had to secrete
S sns "afaHa at = Nest st W s .9es s
April she says; he accused her OF intdeity
s Re ill., and GR %sds nf
two children and is unable to provide for them.
Areport OF John b. Pine as referee was pre-
sentsd to Justice T1pas Ta Of the suprtme
an absolute divorce to Margaret A. Mantell
from Robert D; Mantoll; the actor. She ac-
with whom he has been acting for several
years
M.Tm Ras.ty aGs hsvy xe & A. Gus % Gs %r
sleeve take action on an AFFIDAVIT presented
BY LAWYER, Irving II. Bacon. as counsel for the
for q divorce: withdrew al charges against
Mr.. Bacon before Judge Gildersieevc yester-
5 sy af pu ha ss srn: Th Ss
correctly read to him, BY the other. counsel or
The Judge told him to be more careful about
his charges in future The m1tion m "a f3T all
mony. on whlch ths counsel say they WIN pre-
sent number OF affidavits. went over to Mon
day.
Gerry George has been made guardian OF
his daughter Rose. who is II years old. to
against John Sirgi. to whom she was married
on Jan. "a. 1s93. on the ground OF his relations
with Rose Colombo
Ida Landsman. 10 years old. has had her
father. Marks Nesblatt. made her guardian
by Judge Gildersleeve to bring an action for q
separation from Morris Landsman.
THE CRARY DIVORCE.