The times., 1897-07-19
Diverted for the Nonee Into a
Paternai Defense.
BERATEs HIS SON-IN-LAW
The Evangelist Stands by His
Daughter in Her Cross Bill 1Gr
Dtvorce-CaIIs the Complaining
Husband DruniSard and al Thief.
Very Peppery Language.

a daughter of Sam Small, the evangelist,
and his wife's counter suit have taken
on a new interest since the filing OF MIS-.
Fora,s cross bill in equity. This document,
although signed by Mrs Ford's lawyer
Frank E. Anderson, was in reality writ
ten by sam Small, Mrs. Ford's father, him
self, and is in that orators most vehement,
not to say virulent, style.
Ford 5 a sen OF a. }. Fond, proprietor
of Ford's Hotel here, and of Ford's Lithia
snriucs Hotel in The valley OF Virginia.
The elder Ford has been, and now is prob
ably, largely inteTesle1 IN kentucky stock
farms.
Mr. A. j. Ford and his Wife live apart,
having agreed 10 separate without being
divorced. They have daughter who has
been divorced. Stewart Ford is young
man who has lived well. lie has not had
10 work, having an income flom the Ford
estate. Just what this income is yery
few persons know
Ford married the daughter OF the
Rev Sam W. Small after a few days ac-
ouaiHtance She was then a divorced
woman, her first husband having been u
man named Jackson, OF Knoxville, Tenn.
Her father at the time WAS in Norfolk.
He went there 70 conduct prohibition
Campaign. afterwards led reform move
ment in nun icipaI affairs and estab-
lished the Norfolk Daily Pilot.
IL was while the Rev. Small was at
the zenith of his fame in Norfolk THAI
his daughter met stew ard Ford at Old
Point. lie spent much time there. She
was young and attractive, if not pretty.
Ford was a man after her heart. They
came direct 20 Richmond and were mar
ried
Mrs Ford is accused by her husband
of violation Ui her marriage vows, and
her answer and cross bill, drawn by
Rev Sam Snail himself, is the most
unique and interesting one ever filed in
u Virginia court Extracts from it are
6s follows:
lit was soon brought TO her attention
that the complainant, Stewart H. Ford.
was nothing but loafer, wasting his
time in the pursuits of the drunkard
and the gambler instead OF touing tn
provide food, clothing and shelter fer
his wife.
''on many occasions he came home
AAA ~ NfNA itt q Hdsl4N A4Ad bt klNu -
&c wretched a haunt Of misery as his
abodel thoroughly intoxicated
''He stole the jewelry of your oratrix
and appropriated 10 his own Cse the fund
arising fIOn the pawn OF sale Of The same,
although this property was the separate
estate Of your oratIiX.
''of this Jewelry one piece was a dia-
mond pin, consisting of three solitaires
on tar OF gold which cost your oIatrix
5000: another piece was ling of the SANE.
metal, set with an OPAL, surrounded with
diamonds, for which your oratrix paid
S2s5.
'she believed that he pawned this
1ewelry because his statement TO that
effect is corrotorated by proof. He like
wise stole and sold the horse. carriage
and harness OF the equipage OF YOUR
ora'riX, for which she gave $500. and
which were equally a part of her sepa-
rate estate.
Yet for the resulting funds he rem
dered no account, nor did he disburse
them on your oratrixs behalf On vari-
Gus occasions, when her father, Samuel W.
Small, had sent her sums OF money. the
complainant robbed her Of the same, con,-
pellng ner by threats to deliver the
amounts to bnn, and thereupon applied
them TO purposes Of his own He has
never contributed to the support Of yoar
ora'rix. She is willing TO admit
that he did once buy her a pair of shoes.
a circumstance turnt into her memory hy
reason CT its rarity, and she does not DENY
that by some mysterious chance he did
provide a ring and pastors fee on the
nfuh rx-fta Ba-
she had no proof that the money SO eIi-
ployed was even funds of his
HE called his mother the vilest names
He cursed her. He threw her crockeTy
from her table and broke the china to
fragments on the wall or floor When she
drew her allowance and gave him the in
dorsed checks that he might settle the
bills OF the household for her he cashed
them and spent the proceeds $50 he boast
ed to your oT3trix a t the table of a resort
OF chance. Nav, he even told your oTatrix
the name OF the very place at which, as
a gambler. he squandered the funds Of
which he had previously been the thief
And yet all these things chad these
been all, your oratrix might have borne.
but the said Stewart II Ford did not
stop at these l-considerate OF the feelings
of his male associates, who were pos
sessed or the necessary strength and cour-
age 10 chaStiSe MIN for any Infringement
of their rights, but brave. to the point of
TashneSs (your oratriX is reluctant to caIl
his valor what others have called It
brutality where a feeble woman was his
defenseleSz victim, he did not confine him
self 10 uttering to your oratrix all the
a perverted brain could conceive and a
veromons tongue could bring forth
He has laid the heavy weigh of his
unnanly hand upon her On number
less occasions he has srnacked her face
No provOcation could justify such con
duct toward a woman. but were there
such, she gave him not the slightest
cause for such iItreatment But he has
gone further yet At other times, and
equally without reason he has beaten her
most numerically. Two instances may
best set forth his traits.
In the month of February, 1897. h.
knocked her down and then while she
was on the floor he pounded her with
his fists and kicked her with his feet
until her body was covered with pitiful
discolorations, her clothing torn to shreds
tshe being then in her night dress and in
her bedrooml, and she totally unable To
arise, and needed the care of a nurse for
some time thereafter gain in the
early part of the month OF May, A. D,
1897, shortly before she went with him
from The city % Richmond, In the State OF
Virginia, TO visit her parents in the city Of
Washington. I'm the District of Columbia
as hereinbefore set forth. he made another
brutal assault upon her. because havinc