The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-28
HILL GETS HIS DIVORCE.
COUNSEL AGHEE ON 4 DECREE
BASED SIMPLY ON DEsERTIOS.
aional DeveIopnsents Quickly Dis
posed of-E.Awyer Knapp Speaks
In Behalf % the Divorced Wife.

II ID an old truth, recognized BY the
habitues and employees OF the courthouse,
that very little OF the real. heart story In
: divorce ease ever finds its way through
the meshes OF legal technicalities and the
dry vsrbiaGe OF the Law. La nine cases out
OF ten the facts that appear In the average
case are contained In the formal record,
enlsvened sometimes By racy testimony
where contest Is made.
II there il . story OF grief. Of shame and
anguish and OF broken hopes In the Hill
divorce case. all prospect that II would
be unveiled before the rude gaze OF the
public was quashed yesterday morning.
when counsel for the opposing parties ap-
peared before Judge Jacobs and indicated
that they had agreed to a proposition by
which the plaintiff was to ask for legal
separation from his wife on purely CON-
nonpiace grounds. Mr. Emory. represent
ing Mr.. Hil. opened the proceedings by
asking leave OF the court 70 file an amended
complaint in which all OF the allegations
touching upon infidelity and dishonor were
eliminated. Counsel for the wife. Mr..
Knapp. agreed TO the fling OF the amended
complaint and the court admitted It. In
this complaint the plaintiff asked for d.
yofce on the simple ground OF desertien.
AL reference to the Sensational charges as
10 a conspiracy between the wife ana ner
former husband were left out OF the new
complaint.
These facts and the preliminary formaii-
ties indicated plainly enough that an under
standing lad been reached between Mr..
Hills attorneys and those for his wife
The proceedings following the admission
OF The amended complaint were uninter-
esting. Mr.. Hill went on The stand and toid
how his wife left this city in July, 1888.
without his consent. and afterward refused
IL return. Evidence was introduced tend
ing To show that Mr. Hill had been kind
and anectionate husband. This ended the
testimony.
Me Knapp. representing Mrs. Hill then
made statement of the case from the ac-
eused wife's standpoint. He said in part:
II do not care TO introduce evidence
contradictory 20 the. piaintins anegation
of assertion. although We have denied the
statements made IN the cfoss-eomp!aiht.
The first cause OF action alleged Dy she
plaintiff. adultery and desertion. was dis,
missed on his own motion. Mrs Hiii
denied emphatIcaiiy the charge or adul-
terry. although she Gid not refute that OF
siesertion. She has been ready ana Will
Ing frcm the start 10 prove herseif apho-
hfteiy nee from n shadow or suspicion
e. ronE-dong. but this sae mas been
denied by the withdrawal OF the aisega-
tions touching these matters.
II have examined the lengthy deposit
lions and answers TO interrogatorles.
which constituted part OF the case Tor the
plaintiff and / have been unable TO find
!: shred OF evidence tus;lfying the belief
that Mrs. IfiIl acted other than In the
purest manner. ] firmly believe that she
Is "A pure and true woman sensitive Ia
nature and against whom the allegations
made I'm the complaint fall like the knife
thrust of an assassin. She desires 70 De
INDICATED of these charges and freed
from the odium they cast upon her. she
does not wish TO answer with recrimina-
ton or In kind. Now that the plaintin
has abandoned this ground for seeking
divorce. we. in the hope that 1t Will STOP
The flow of Jealous and insane accusation
and it's publication abroad by the news
papers will not oppose decree. Inc
hau6 who has thus shown his carability
Of gross siandering his wife. whom ne
had sworn to love and cherish. we Will
not ofrer any evidence.
No reference whatever was made to the
answer and cross-co complaint of the wife
charging cruelty. No contesting testi-
mony was introduced and the court or
dered n decree on the grounds OF desertlon
for the platntiH
The findings of fact and decree were pre-
pared by counsel during the day and were
fled I'm the afternoon. The case was closed
n1 as quickly rs possible. An order was
issued granting leave to the attorneys Tor
tho ex-wife TO withdraw from the Mes.
where they were public property, the SEN
yafional charges made by Mr. Hill and the
r;tcy interrogatories sent East during the
progress of the case
Among the papers still left OF record Is u
little yellow slip. which bore In ink the
words written by the ex-wfe when she
first conveyed to her husband her deter
mination 10 quit him. The yellow slip.
about which so much unhappiness and dis
cord was hinged. is telegram dated at
Milwaukee, Wis. October II, 1925. 1t Is
directed TO Mr.. Hi at Seattle and reads:
Decision final. l beg you TO bear 1t
hraveiy. ANNA.
This is all of the story.