The herald., 1896-07-04
EKYu AND HYDE AGAIN
Beal, the Photographer, in
the Divorce Court
UNIQUE 0ATHS IRE HIS SPECIALITY
A Father Gets His Children by
Habeas Corpus
FROM THE AID SOCIETY
Mrs. Cummings Marrlsge With Her
Husband AnnuIled
Stevens, Accused OF Attempting to Rob q
Bank Wants Damages
Opening Wall street-Warren. Concerned In
the Spilman Water Trouble surren-
ders "A Batch Of New Suits.
General Court Notes
A Father Gets His Children BY
Habeas Corpus
Mrs. Cummings Marriage With Her
Husband AunuIled
Stevens, Accused Of Attempting to Rob a
Bank Wants Damages


"A house divided against itself cannot
stand" the good book says, and in that
case the home of the little family of c.
H. Beal is lettering to its fall
Mr.. Beal has Photographic gallery on
Spring street, and is fairly well known
about town, but If the evidence certain
witnesses gave in court yesterday is to
| be believed, the true Mr.. Beal is known
| only within the confines of his own
| home. In fact, it is another case of Jekyl
| and Hyde, only with the characters re-
versed, the monster having full sway
only with those who ought to be dear
as they ara near to him.
The evidence given yesterday in Judge
Van Dykes department was in the di-
| vorce suit brought by Maud Beal against
her husband. The plaintiff is pretty
little woman with large swapping eyes
that seemed to indicate that however
she had been sinned against, she at least
could use her tongue as weapon of de-
| Tense.
The state of things that developed in
the little Pasadena cottage, where the
couple lived for eight months, in the cot
|
| lived for one month, and in the three
| dingy unhealthy rooms adjacent to the
gallery, on Spring street, was most cur
| ious The plaintiff stated that her first
! grievance was when she found out after
| her marriage that the house her hus-
band had brought her to was. in addi-
| ton to the ordinary purposes of its use,
in reality house of designation. The
| ~f no. orrlr ,iraa tod hoy
ever, after the baby was born. Instead
of the father developing that ardent
| paternal affection supposed to distin-
| guish young husbands, he refused to
| touch it or have anything to do with it.
| He spoke of it as the damned brat" the
monkey" and said he would as soon
| have "a snake crawling around him as
| it.
Mr.. Beal, too, while very profane in his
ordinary conversation, developed
| unique power of foul expression in his
fits of temper. His oaths all had the most
astounding qualifying adjectives before
them, and were it not for the serious
| ness of the trouble that provoked them,
some admiration might be provoked by
| the undoubted talent displayed by him
| as picturesque swearer.
| Repeatedly, when Mrs. Beal displeaSed
her liege lord. he would vent his spleen by
! splitting in her face and heap further
| contumely upon her by applying obscene
and indecent language to her. He
| bought his wife one dress and two pair
| Of stockings. and that was the extent
| of his support so far. The household
necessares, more often than not, were
| furnished either by plaintiffs mother
or, in some instances, by her mother in
law.
To put it briefly, Mr.. Beal was and is
| according to his wifes account a holy
terror.
Counsel for the defense tried by a
rigid cross examination to make witness
contradict herself, but she remained self
possessed and in essentials was unmov-
! ed.
| Mrs. Susan Houck. a very sweet ap-
pearing old lady, who occupied the cot
tage adjoining the Beals at Pasadena
| testified to the fact that the young wife
had sought refuge with her on several
occasions from the brutality of her hus-
band. She had assisted Mrs. Beal on
several occasions by giving her fire.
wood. etc, until her husband stopped
| it. Then she had seen Mr.. Beal cutting
up the sidewalk and pulling the eucalyp-
tus trees to be utilized for firewood
Mrs. J. F. Nadeau, the landlady of the
! house shared by the Beals in the city.
gave her evidence in very indignant
| tone. Three weeks after the baby was
born she heard Beal threaten to kick
his - - wife down stairs, saying
that he had done it to a better woman
|
| this reference to allude to his first wife
who on one occasion rebelled against
| his tyranny and hit him across the cheek
with poker, making him for life. She
! had seen him spit in his Wife's face and
! on more than one occasion saw the
| marks and bruises where he had struck
her
Other witnesses testified in the same
line before adjournment. Counsel for
the defense applied to the court for per-
| mission for his client to visit his child
! urging that his side of the case had not
yet been heard. Judge Van Dyke, how
| ever, refused to make any such order,
| and the case went over
HE CLAIMED HIS OWN
A well appearing man addressing the
| court with a tremor in his voice in be-
half of his children; d comfortable,
pleasant looking woman sitting placid
| ly by, and in turn urging that the chill
| dren be not entrusted to this pleading
father; and in the background a little
boy and girl-the latter quietly sobbing
al intervals while tears filled. her eyes.
This is the scene as it appeared in
| Judge Van Dykes department yester-
| day afternoon. The case was one where
| in William f. Dunn petitoned for a
| writ of habeas corpus to recover pos
session of his two children from the
possession of the Boys and Girls Aid
| society.
| fore service could be obtained on the
superintendent, Mrs. Watson, and at
| o'clock when the case was called Dunn's
| counsel was not present. But the case
| suffered nothing in that respect, for the
rough. unvarnished tale of the father
was more potent with the court than all
the legal argument and hair splitting
| of counsel.
Mr.. Dunn stated that he owned 100
acres of land, 60 acres of which is fenced
and partly laid out, and that last Sep
TENDER he injured his hand so that he
| couldn't work. Having taught school
| once he determined to brush up his
knowledge at the Normal school, and
| with that end in view he gave his chill
dren to the society. When he went last
Saturday to remove them he was denied
| admittance and his written and verbal
| demand for them had been refused
Mrs. Watson smlingly explained that
| when Mr.. Dunn came to the home he
tried to get his children to obtain from