The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-20
SADIE'S SAD STORY
CRUELTY CHARGED BY MRS. WAR
NER IN HER ANSWER EN-
TREMELY SHOCKING.
NEW AND HIDEOUS T0RTURES.
INVENTED, SHE SAYS, BY HER HUS-
BAND DURING A LONG
TERM.
ASKS DIVORCE AND ALIMoNY
The Custody Of Her Ten-Year-OId
Daughter and IL Chance to
Tell Her Story.

Sadie K. Warner has filed her an
swer to the divorce suit brought
against her by Lucien Warner early
last month. Mr.. Warner, in his COM
plant, charges her with having violat-
ed her marriage vows.
Mrs. Warmers answer is more than
a mere defense. 1t is a cross bill for di-
vorce, alleging cruel and inhuman
treatment on the part of Mr.. Warner
The first paragraph of Mrs. Warmers
answer is a sweeping denial of every
allegation IN the complaint, except the
the assertions that the plaintiff and de-
PENDANT were married July 20, 1885, and
that they have one child, Lucia Clayton
Warner, born in May, 1887. Mrs. War
ner then proceeds to unfold to the court
her grievances against Mr.. Warner
Her cross bill charging cruel and in
human treatment reads very much like
her complaint in the action for divorce
that she instituted against Mr. War
ner nearly ten years ago, which appli-
cation Judge Brill denied. 1t is a re-
cital of numerous acts Of physical
cruelty, alleged to have been commit
ted by Mr.. Warner for period ex-
tending over three years.
Mrs. Warner begins with the asser-
ton that, after she and Mr.. Warner
had become reconciled in 1898 and had
agreed to start life afresh, she did her
duty toward the defendant, and avoid
ed all occasion and provocation for
ill-treatment at his hands. But, III
spite of her efforts, Mr.. Warner had. at
all times since the reconciliation, been
guilty Of most cruel and inhumCn
treatment. He had Inundated and
distressed her. He had inflicted physi-
cal violence upon her and broken her
spirit. In fact, so the bill alleges, Mr.
has been to invent schemes and execute
schemes of cruelty towards her.
Then follows a detailed recital OF
specific acts of cruelty, in which Mr..
Warner is accused of slapping and
choking his wife, locking her up in dark
closets and cold rooms and finally
throwing her out Of the window
Mrs. Warner alleges that her hus-
band is a man of means, whose es-
tate eight or ten years ago was worth
100000 is still worth $50, 000
but that during the spring JUST
passed he has refused to provide prop
err food and clothing for her. Prior
to her marriage to Mr. Warner. Mrs
Warner was the widow Of Gen. Fielder
A. Jones, who served in the late war
and as such she received a pension
from the United States government of
$240 year. She says that Mr. War
ner promised to settle a sum on her
after their marriage that would pro-
duce an income of $240 to replace her
pension, which ceased upon her mar
riage, but that he never kept his prom
iSe
During the past spring Mrs. Warner
obtained q position i'll a private. fam
lily, leaving her home early in April,
in order she says, to support herself.
She asks for the custody of her ten
year-old daughter and for SIS month
alimony. In her affidavit requesting
alimony, Mrs. Warner asserts that Mr..
Warner can easily afford to pay 1t. as
he has been hiring detectives to hound
her and paying them SIS day.
Mrs. Warner is forty-seven and Mr..
Warner sixty years of age.
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