The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-28

oTfcs from Mrs Kern, OF Nebraska city.
she asked the doctor II Mrs. Kern. whom
re attended. was a nice woman, ard the
doctor said she was. OF course. The next
thFng that happened was when sire found
Maud wIlliar1s' picture IN a drawer under
an instrument case. When she asked the
doctor whose picture Il was he replied BY
asking which one she meant After an ex-
piansfson the doctor told her y was Maud
Williams 8 married woman Mrs Fail
did no. think e was proper and the doc
tor said: Il can't help u IL women get
stuck on me-
A. one sinaa the doctor was gone from
home and Mrs. Williams was missing also.
They had a Christmas dinner AT home, but
the doctor took dinner with Mrs Williams
Previous 70 her believing the doctor really
guilty Of intimacy with Mrs. Williams.
but while fearing Mr.. Williams was going
70 sue DR.. Fail for alternating his wife's
affections. she commenced bookkeeping on
the doctors actions. 70 prove him innocent,
she said. She then commenced reading
item after item, giving the tire the dor
TOR left home and returned. Many Of the
items were as follows.
''Cut al night" Returned home at II
n n" Home first time in two weeks"
once in a great while she had him home
at q
Speaking % the scene ar the doctors
Office she said Il was one Easter morn
ing after church that she went there 70
have him go home II he was not busy. She
found him with a man in the reception
room and, Judging from the glasses they
had been drinking beer Just as soon as
she entered. the doctor took bis friend into
the private Office and shut the door. She
did no; like 20 have the doctor in such
company and 50 she went 10 the door and
wanted TO see him. He did not come out
and she ratified the door, but did not kick
IT, One day she found a nude womans
picture I'm his coat pocket and thought il
was Maud Williams. Il showed the girl as
dressed in shoes. a hat and a bow and ar
row. The doctor explained that street
car man had given it TO him.
BACKED the Doctors Eye.
On REORGANIZATION Mrs. Fall ad-
r7ltted that she BACKED the Doctors eye
on one occasion.
Mrs. Bokee. who knew the Falls. testi-
fed that she saw the doctor at Madison
park in q compromising position with a
woman. When asked to describe her she
said: "She was thick set and short, but
not as short as / am"
Falls God-Given Right.
John Wiley. tire husband Of Mrs. Falls
sister. who has acted as peacemaker in
all the quarrels until last March, recount
ed many happenings and summed the case
up By saying that in his estimation Fall
was as industrious a man as ever lived up
to the time he began drinking. Then he
(FalD did not do right by Mrs. Fall. and
Mrs. Fan did not pursue the right course
TO reclaim him. Continuing Wiley said:
Fall was all right until he commenced
TO exercise what he termed a 'God-given
right TO drink when he wnated to-"
Mrs. Stevens, a sister Of Mrs. FAN, tes-
tined that she accompanied Mrs. Fail on
her visit to the Doctors. and that she did
not do more than rattle the door. She
did not see a Mrs. Boswell who testified
that she heard Mrs. Fall kick the door.
The man who was with DR.. Fall claimed
that Mrs. FAN was unattended.
The Hair-Puiling Incident.
Mrs. John Wiley. who is Mrs. Falls
sister. testified that the doctor stayed out
nights, came home intoxicated, did not
provide clothes as he ought during the
past three years and their life was mis-
cradle One night she heard her sister
scream, and went into her room. The
doctor was pulling his wife's hair. Mrs.
Wiley said she told the doctor he ought
10 be ashamed of himself, and he said he
would pull her hair. and then Mrs. Wiley
said he dare not do such a thing. Mrs.
Wiley was n-s aware that DIR. Fall ever
had a black eye.
In rebuttal Mr. Cay called Zollia Nc
Daniel, who was ianitor in the Roxwell
building during 1894, and testified that the
lower panel OF the door to DIR. Falls prt-
vate office was broken. He said he never
saw the doctor intoxicated.
"Dar' Roberts said he rode home on
the same car with DR.. Fall one night last
winter. and when he saw him in a day
or so he had a black eye.
Fall Makes Some Denials.
DR.. Fall was recalled and explained that
the obscene picture found IN his pocket
was given him by a street car man and he
put Il in his pocket thoughtlessly. He
said he was in the Nickel saloon and saw
a coIored woman take drink. but did not
hug her, or pay any attention to her. He
never had anything wrong 10 do with Mrs.
Williams or lewd women except TO treat
Them, and took dinner at Mr.. Williams
request The doctor said he had always
drank beer but never TO excess.
DO you remember going to sleep in the
hath tub and being found by Mr.. Wiley?'
asked Mr.. Thompson.
az was not asleep" said Fall. II was
simply taking a sweat"
The case being closed. Judge Humes
said he was satisfied Mr.. and Mrs. Fall
must part, and from the evidence be felt
justified in granting her divorce on the
ground of cruelty. AS the doctors medical
education was obtained by money from
community property he would give the Ne
hraska farm 10 Mrs. Fall. AS 10 the per-
sonal property the doctor could have his
Office furniture, etc, and Mrs. Fall the
household goods. worth $780, Each party
would pay their own bills.
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