The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-22
HIS CONDUCT
CALLED CRUEL
AND |NHUMAN
Mrs. NJ. Parrish Seeks
a Divorce.
A SENSATIONAL COMPLAINT
DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH
GROSS BRUTALITY.
Marital Infelicities of the Two Chill
dren of Norman Parrish Be-
fore the Courts in One
Week.

Deep Is the sea of marital infelicities
for the children of Norman Parrish, the
proprietor of the California planning
Mills and the owner of Peralta Hall. A
few days ago his daughter, Cora Plum
kett, obtained a divorce from William t.
Plunkett, and now his son, Walter II.
Parrish, will be sued by his wife, Maud
Parrish, for a dissolution of the bonds of
matrimony which have kept them to-
gether since November. 1896
There will be filed with the County
Clerk this morning, by George A. Proctor,
attorney for Mrs. Parrish, a divorce
complaint which fairly reeks with sensa-
tiOnal allegations. In it are charges of
the EXTREMIST cruelty and brutality and
a recital Of most salacious matter.
The complaint alleges that the i'll treat
ment received by the wife from the hands
OF Walter Parrish began shortly after
the marriage when. without any provo
cation, the husband began a course of
inhuman and cruel conduct which caused
Mrs. Parrish much mental suffering and
severe physical illness from which she
fears everlasting evil effects.
one of the most sensational charges
made against the young husband is that
Of habitual profanity. According 10 the
words Of the complaint Parrish must
have searched the archives of profanity
to find epithets sufficiently opprobrious to
use upon MS vic. mere are SUNNI "a
pressi0ns which do not look we'll in print,
and which the wife swears were her usual
portion whenever she attempted to mend
the error of his ways.
Continuing, the complaint tells OF mid
night search, for the husband was in the
habit of absenting himself from the rooms
which he and his wife occupied in the
Paramount Hotel. This was a night in
December, 1897, when Mrs. Parrish left
her apartments TO find the errant hus-
band She declares that she saw him
intoxicated condition. She attempted 10
induce him to return home with her, but
her solicitations were met with most
abusive language and violence. The
complaint declares that this III conduct
toward the wife was continuous. At times
Parrish would return under the influence
of liquor and then would play destruc-
ton on the bric-a-braC and furnl ture.
This treatment so preyed upon the plain
tiff's mind that she was rapidly oecom-
ing a physical wreck, having lost twenty
pounds In weight on account of the men
tai anguish and physical suffering TO
which she was subjected.
1t was then that Mrs. Walter Parrish
went to her parents for advice, ana they
ordered him to move rom their house
which he did, taking all his personal eff
fects with him Mrs. Parrish prays for
the dissolution of the bonds of matri-
mony and such other and further relief
that might be just.
Walter Parrish is we'll known in this
city. He is about % years of age, a
graduate of the San Francisco High
School and for short time a student at
the university. Latterly he has been en-
nloved by the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company and in his fathers mills.