The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-09
COURT RECORD.
Superior oourt-Judgo s. o. Prentice.

Superior Court-Judge $. O. Prentice.
 The divorce suit of Emma l.. Allen against George M. Allen was continued in this court yesterday, Mrs. Allen
 finished the story of her i'll treatment in the afternoon. Witness Meserole
 was then called and told of Allen's
 habit of staying out late nights, An
 thony Carroll, another witness stated
 that he had seen Allen ill a pool room
 on Grown street in 1890 or 1891 buying pools on the races.
 L. B. Clark the picture dealer, was next called. He testified to having seen
 Allen gamble, and he remembered one occasion when Allen told him that he
 had put SEQ on a policy "gig."
 Horace A. B. Johnson, colored, who was janitor of the Hurlburt flats while the Aliens lived in them, was the next witness He swore that Allen was i'm the habit of staying out late nights, his average time of getting home being about midnight. Witness recalled two occasions when he let Allen in at 3 o'clock in the morning. He also tes- titled to hearing Allen call his wife bad names and swear at her.
 The next witness called by the peti- tioner was Edward D. Knight of Prov idence. R. I. Knight formerly lived in this city. He is a travelling salesman employed by F. s, Wheeler & Co of this city. In his answer to his wife's complaint for a divorce Allen charges her with having acted improperly with Knight
 Knight swore that while he lived in this city he roomed with the Aliens first at their house on Grown street and afterwaPd on Dwight street, mov- ing with them at MT Allens request. On one occasion he stated thGt Allen came home about 10 o'clock at night and found Mrs. Allen walking about the dining room carrying her baby in her arms. Allen, witness said, demand ed that Mrs. Allen let him take the child. She refused and he attempted to take the child from her. She re- sisted and he struck her with his fist knocking her over against chair. As Mrs. Allen fell Knight said that her husband said: "Now-you, you'll do as I say next time"
 Knight was the last witness called | by the petitioner.
 The first witness called by the de- i fendant was Miss Emma Swift, nurse. | Her testimony and that of Miss Danar, | another nurse was in effect that Mrs. l Allen had been guilty of some impro- l prieties.
 Dr. Whittemore was the next witness l called and he testified that he had att | tended Mrs. Allen two or three weeks | before the birth of her child and had | found her suffering from nervous pros tration. He had found no organic | disease but thought that her nervous ness might have been caused by mental | worriment.
 Attorney Hamilton then asked what in his opinion would be the effect of an alarm clock going off at or 5 o'clock In the morning on a woman who was in Mrs. A1len's condition, Dr. Whitte- more thought that loss of sleep might result and that would bring on various symptoms, just what he could not state, but that at certain times it might re- suit in serious complications,
 MT. Allen, a brother of George M Allen, was the next witness called. He was asked when he first came to the that there were improper re- atons between MT. Knight and Mrs. Allen. He answered in the middle of 1892. Attorney Hamilton then asked what specific thing had been done which convinced him that Mrs. Allen and Mir Knight had had |, relations He replied that the reason was because she had paid so much attention to him.
 Witness testified that he had seen Mrs. Allen in Knights room while he was sick, but the defense brought out he fact that she simply was there to ,are for him a little on account of his oeing sick. Attorney Hamilton asked Allen If she had ever come in his room while he was in bed. He said she had. 1 Court then adjourned until this morn- ng. |,