The evening times., 1896-04-15
mrs. l4Ls Sues AGAIN
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Second Petition for Divorce j.
Flarlhs ksjor. W.,
GROSS oRPELfY CHARGED.
She Declares She Can No Longer En-.
dure the crdel f,reatment. Sinister
Threuts and Eccentric Acts of Her
Husband-Specifio INSTANCES Cited
IN tue Bill.

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Mrs. Lucy II. Arfhes has again applied
for Il divorce from the bed-and board oi
her husband, Mai. George A, Armes. the
retired ARMY officer. who won no small
notoriety recently, wien lie incurred iht
wrath of Gen. Schofeld and was. s.arrested
ana % iDiprsoned by military AUTHORITY.
Theodore X. Tyierappears as counsel fo
the petitioner.
The long bill filed in the case this morn
ing is fun of frers ac counts OF cruelty prac
ticed by the husband upon his wife ana Gull
dren. once before the wife asked the court
10 separate her from tne Ded anu boar
ofher husband. 1nis was in Jniy, ssf
The following December Mrs. Ariles
Withdrew her suit upon the undersianuuS =
that Major Armes' alleged eccentricitics
should cease in the future. He never kept
the agreement he helped 10 make, sue saiu.
The parties to the suit were hurried In
this city October a, 1874. Eight children
have been born 10 them. MAYOR Armes had
been dismissed from The army, bis ~iie
says, aud was in the zeal estate business
al the time of the ma arriage.
He was rcinstatcd TO his former rank
in 1878. He was ordered with his COM
maDd To Texas, and he moved his family
there. iu the Lone star state, Mrs. Arncs
afiirms, her husband was unpopular among
his fellow-officeTs.
ALWAYS IN TROUBLE.
He was constantly in difficulties and dis
pute with his fcllow-officers, and was
placed on the retired list in September,
1858. After that they returned TO Wash
intgOn.
On the return to Washington says the
petitioner he began and has continued "a
systematic COURSE OF hrutai,reatment.' He
endangered th and life OF the petl-
toDer and her children, ana made them
fearful atr all thars of bodily harm. The
naitre.l'ment OF the wife was not only
committed in the presence OF the children,
but of other persons.
Ma Sot arIncS mas 4 temper so furious and
uncomfortable, his wife states, and he
makes threats Sosinister and brutal tina tShe
lives in constant fear while he Is around.
He curses and beats tue children, she
says, and his humors aud whIns are so
unrsa snaahic and his demands are SO
tyrannical that it is really exaSpcratlng
to have to endure him.
Then the Complainant repeats specific
ally some OF the deeds he has committed.
She said that when the youngest chiIh wa :
born IN April, 1892, the defendant vas
IN Il violent temper and raised Il great
COmmution in the house. He disrharS rSed
all OF the servants aud abused the other
members of the household. when the baby
was only II month old ire compelled hts
wife 10 go INTO Tue kliCheu ana work. she
said, when he was perfectly able tD hire
servants to do it.
treated his daughter. and when Mrs. rtils.s
altenpte! to Interfere be struck her
few dnysiater NJ 1r,e,i o place the daug gi,ter
in the House Of the Good Shepherd.
a tthitCS atIioN.
Another ecceniridfIy is referred to when
The wife says tlIgt one night In June, 1884
MAJOR Armes made his two boys get up
between = and 3 O'Clock in the morning
and unload n wagon load or hay. Ia
October. 1894, he urcw a revolver on his
wife IN December of the same year he
ragg-d his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. daughter
off "a Chevy Chase LToliey car.
Mrs. Armes Ia,es that she owned the
houses At No. 712 and ia Tenth street
north west. Her husband has borrowed
. money on these 'hntiscs and he now collects
the rents on them and pockets the nIouey
He receives SIT = n month as retired
army officer. EHe owns the his Country
hpnie NJ Fairfield. some city property, and
400 acres OF land do wn in Texas H'.r''-i
The w!Te pra ysfor alhnony 10 support her
self and eight children and asks the court
% coinpe! Aa ior AriI.es Ia furnish them a
home. She. seeks the custody OF the chi
dren Id wants the husband o he Co.npclI,-I
20 leave her ami them aloue, though sii,.
mas no Objection tD him yIssl ing the chil-
drcn.
snc further wants him cnIoinel from col
!ccting any more reuts on her own prr;erfy
.tni wants an accounting OF The rem 4, ii,. mas
collected. % 20 -