The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-07
BEAT HIS WIFE
TO |NSENS|B|L|TY.
Remarkable Story of Cru
city Related in a
Divorce Suit.
MARRIED TWO YEARS.
Martial Hainque Alleged to Have
Attempted to Kill His
Child.
AN INJUNCTION is ISSUED.
It Will Prevent Him From Trans
ferring Any of His Property Pend
ing Divorce Proceedings.
AN INJUNCTION IS ISSUED.


Papers were filed yesterday in the SUI
perior Court in behalf of Agnes M. Haique,
making application for divorce from her
husband. Martial Hainque. Martial
Hainque is a young man % years of age, a
son of the former proprietor of the Cyclops
Machine Works, and an heir to his father
estate, owner of a sixth interest in the
tools, etc.. of those works. He is said to
be worth $4,000, and, upon the motion of
Walter Linforth, the plaintiffs attorney,
Judge Hunt, yesterday issued an injunc-
ton restraining Hainque from transferring
any of his property, as he threatened to do
in case of suit being entered.
The wife alleges extreme cruelty as the
grounds of her petition, and cites series
of extraordinary instances. The couple
were married on the Both of July, 1898, in
this City. The husband is alleged to have
begun to treat his wife with brutal vio-
lence almost Immediately after the mar
rage. On the evening of the 9th of Sep
TENDER, 1898, while they were returning to
their home at $40 Fifteenth street, after a
visit to sister of Hainque, he struck his
wife with his fist, causing her nose to
bleed profusely.
She was only saved from another attack
in their house the next day by the APP
pearance of a friend, Nine. Rosine
Guitrive.
During the month of January, 1894, the
husband is alleged to have beaten his wife
In the face with his fist until he wearied of
it, and then dragged her about the room by
her hair. At this time the wife had but
risen from bed of sickness, her child
being but three weeks old.
In February following the husband
again beat the petitioner in the face,
choked her, threw her upon the floor and
kicked her in the abdomen. She en-
deavored 10 escape from the house with
his child, but he overlook and choked her
again.
A few days later, while the baby girl
was asleep in Its bed, being then less than
two months old, he threatened to kill her
should she awake and cry. The child did
awake and he hurled two wooden boxes at
her. The mother threw herself in front of
the child and was struck over the eye and
temple. AS result, her eye was swollen
and blackened and her face discolored for
period of two weeks thereafter.
In June, in the presence of visitor, he
gave her another choking.
On the evening of the 4th of July. about
8 O'Clock. he beat her into insensibility.
She did not recover consciousness until 4
o'clock the next morning, or seven hours
after. AS another result of this her face
was blackened and discolored for a period
of two weeks.
On the Both of May, 1895, while in pub
lie restaurant at Seventh and Market
streets, he threw a sugar bowl at her,
striking her on the shoulder
On January q, 1896, with the acquies-
cence of the husband, the wife s'was re-
peatedly struck in the face with great force
and violence by Mrs. Frank C. Bangs, a
sister of the defendant"
The petition further states that these
instances were only few of their kind,
but that repeatedly the husband beat and
abused the wife, in this way making her
sick, lame and dIsfgured. He used violent.
abusive and obscene language toward her
frequently in the presence of visitors, and
charged her with being upon improper
terms with every man who came to the
house.
The issue of the marriage is the child
referred to and another not yet born.
The Mrs. Bangs referred to-a sister of
the respondents the wife of a well-known
attorney of this CITY,