The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-15
THE IMPRISONED CLERGYMAN
MAKES A STATEMENT OF
FAMILY TROUBLES.
BEGAN ON HIS WEDDING DAY
WHEN, HE SAYS, MRS. HULL ACTED
QUEERLY, AND HAS KEPT
1T UP
AT ODD INTERVALS EVER SINCE,
He Alleges That She Is Subject to
Mental TROUBLESOME Answer
From Her.

Rev. ]. G. Hull after ten days stay
in the county Jail has loosened up a
trif1e, and is out with lengthy state
ment regarding the past history of his
wife and the troubles he has had dur
ing the fifteen years of his married
life. B. F. Latta, who is acting as at
torney for Hull, in speaking of the
case Wednesday, said he could not un-
derstand how the impression had gone
forth that the case would be settled
outside of the courts. He stated that
there was no such plan on foot, at
least SO far as Mr. Hull was con-
cerned. In the statement made pub
lie by Hull. mention is made of three
letters he has sent his wife since his
arrest, asking that the children be
placed in a school and that she travel
with him during the winter in the
South This would indicate that per-
haps Attorney Latta has not been
fully posted by Hull as to the arrange
ments made. or attempting to be
made regarding settlement of the case
outside the courts Mr.. Hull, seen last
evening, said that, aside from the
statement, he had nothing to say. If
and sketch of his life as outlined in
the statement, the same could be veri-
fed by referring to an encyclopedia
which was on file in the public library.
Mrs. Hull was sent copy of the
statement made by her husband, and
requested to, if she desired, make an
answer to the same. This she declined
to do, and sent word that she had
nothing to say whatever Following is
: the statement:
County JAIL Aug. 10, 1896
Having denied through your columns the
story that my wife is the victim of PERM
clous drug, and having promised at various
tunes TO give facts if it became necessary,
ana having patiently awaited the time set
Tor my hearing, and having gone down into
court this morning ready to answer and being
returned to the prison CELL | now believe the
ume mas come when it is neither imprudent
nor unwlse to give facts, | am the more con-
WINGED of the necessity of this course because
l 1. Know well that so long as my wife con
she will take infinite delight in the fact that
| am behind the bars
The trouble is peculiar one inherited and
as in the case of her mother has always mani
tested itself in hatred toward her husband
was married Dec. q, 1881, in Emporia Kan,
my Wlfe,s people at that time living at To-
ronto, Woodson county, Kansas. We were
elder OF the Emporia district, now pastor of
the M. E. church at Hartford Kansas We
were married at noon and at once sat down
to lunch. After the meal / was greatly sur
pr1sed to find that my wife refused to speak
to me. | thought at first 1t was only little
game; but began to feel uneasy when it con-
u e1a all afternoon and evening, and grew
alarmed when the strange conduct was in
considerable measure, carried through two or
three weeks. Her mothers condition hadEsup.
70 that time, been carefully concealed from
l was then pastor of the NJ E. church at
Madison, Kansas, and was reappointed at the
following conference, and remained during the
year 1857 and was then stationed at Yates
Center. Here we had parsonage, and first
began housekeeping l had looked forward to
the opportunity of improvement in home of
our own; but found the same kind of a spell
came on with entrance to the parsonage as on
our wedding day. In this instance 1t was
quite prolonged, and about o'clock one night
noise at our bed room window (up stairs)
aroused me. I looked and saw my wife
standing with the window opened. l rushed
to her and asked, what is the matter?" She
her to tell me what was the matter. but
she refused to offer any explanation whatever
The next day l hired horse and buggy at
the livery and took her to see her married
sister who lived some twenty miles distant
In the edge Of Greenwood county 1t was my
purpose to tell her sister of the situation
and have her try to ascertain the trouble; but
under the influence of the drive and chang
ing scene my wife came out of the trouble.
and that evening when we were alone cried
heartily. and begged me to forgive her, which
about 1t.
The following winter her father told me of
ms own aft11ction, by which l recognized at
once the malady which l had never under
stood till then. He said that he had endured
1t all his married life with the hope that when
the children grew up it would cease; but f1nd-
ing 1t as bad as ever, believed it his duty to
have his wife committed to the asylum He
said all his children were aware of their
mothers condition. but as I had become a.
member of the family. he felt it his duty to
ton by telling him that was
having duplicate of his experience; but told
him to use his own Judgment, in which had
perfect confidence. He did not carry out his
purpose, however. but sacrificed his home at
Toronto and removed to an obscure place in
Ford county. in the southwestern part of the
state, where they are now living in seclusion-
the nearest railroad point being Garden City.
L was SO near that I thought her knowledge
OF the situation at home was making nv wife
worse, and declined to remain at Yates Cen
ter for the third year, and was transferred to
the West Virginia conference in the fall of
1885, and stationed at Wheeling.
l was disappointed in my hopes of relief by
the change, and by the middle of the second
year found my wife so bad that I could not
we'll keep the situation concealed. Taking adj
vantage OF an excuse, when the church was
Obliged TO run behind with the salary on ac-
count of the prolonged nail mill strike / re-
signed in the midst of the year and went
70 evanston, ILL.,, where | attended DR.
Harpers summer school of Hebrew That
fall QSSO was transferred to the New Eng
land Southern conference and stationed In
St. Paufs NJ E. church, Fall River. Mass
Here my wife became so bad that she fire.
quently threatened to take her life, and also
threatened to kill me.
took her to Boston, Martha's- VINEYARD
Camp and other pleasant trips including Wis
its to the General Confereneesfn New York
City QS8S) and the national convention of the
w. c. T. u, in the same city that year; but
only realized temporary results. At the con-
ference in Taunton, Mass, in April. 1889
took supernumerally relation. and came
to Minneapolis quite discouraged with try
ing to be pastor of church under such en-
barrassment. While living there supplied
the church at Howard Lake, Mimi. for
year and half. and the First church, Des
Moines, Iowa, one winter never taking NV
wife to either place. In the fall of 1892 I
was appointed to the First church, Duluth
but believing that my wife was not in con-
dition to make success possible l did not