The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-16

Although Her Husband Said She Was
Not Entitled to Il.

Not Entitled to 1t.
The early part Of yesterdays session Of
the Superior Court was consumed in the
hearing of the action for permanent and
temporary alimony, fled by Mrs. Della
Stein against her husband, r. G. Stein.
That phase of the case on trial was the
plea for temporary alimony, until the final
hearing and disposition of the case, and
ended in the plaintiff being allowed $40 a
month alimony SIS attorneys fees and
the costs of court.
The answer of the defendant was only
filed when court convened and this with
the testimony given in evidence, furnished
sensational details of the case that hither-
to have given no indication of their pres
ence. Mrs. STEMS petition for alimony
had been grounded upon her desertion by
her husband, his cruel treatment, and his
continued refusal either to live with her
or support her. These allegations the de-
PENDANT denies in toto, and makes in his
trun sensational charges against his
wife After admitting the formal al
legations of the petition, as to the mar
riage and its incidents, the petition con-
tinues:
the plaintiff kept company with a class
of people that she knew defendant did not
approve Of; she has gone in company with
men and refused TO so with defendant;
for The last two years plaintiff has kept
furnished rooms to rent, and during that
time has rented rooms to men and woman
Of immoral character. and that plaintiff
well knew that her boarders were leading
immoral lives. She kept a room In reserve
next to her bed room to rent to transient
boarders and that usually man occupied
said room, and that there was door con-
Meeting said room with that of plaintiff"
The defendant, he says in his answer,
objected 10 his wife conducting herself in
such a manner. His duties as member
of the fire department kept him away
from home, with the exception of one
night in ten, and during his frequent abb
sences plaintiff kept company with men
against the known wishes of the defend
ant. He AYERS that one OF the boarders
in the house had become SO close
and intimate a friend Of his wife that
he was compelled to- order him
out of the house, and to compel compll-
ance with his order by a show of physl-
cal force
AS to his wife's daughter by a former
marriage, whom il was averred he had
treated in a cruel and harsh manner and
refused 10 permit 10 live in the house with
him, he admitted ner existence, AMI that
was all. Not only, says the answer, had
he never treated her cruelty or unndtur-
ally. but he had on the contrary e0deav-
cred to be towards her all that he should CT
thai his duties required. He had never eX-
acted that she should leave the house in
which he was living with his wife, but the
latter had sent the girl away to answer
her own purposes and to serve her own
ends. This daughter was now a woman
grown and neither dependant upon ror en-
titled to his support.
The testimony given before the court was
in its nature conflicting. 1t supported the
contentious of plaintiff and defendant with
q fair degree of precision, but it was
impossible to reconcile both sides and
the absolute and unvarnshed truth Some
where truth had been forgotten and some
slight wandering from the path of the
strictest carefu.ness of statement in
dulged in But the evidence was
not gone into at any great length. When
the case comes on 10 be heard a the next
term of the court the facts vii be inqulr
| ed into thoroughly, but it rarely happens
that any very thorough investigation is
made upon tire hearing Of the application
for Temporary alirnony.
At the conclusion of the evidence Judge
Falligant announced that the defendant
had not shown that the plaintiffs con-
duct had been such as 10 debar her from
| the right to temporary alimony, while It
was still an admitted fact that she was
| his wife The evidence resolved itself
| into a question of the credibility Of wit
| nesses, that a jury ought to determine,
and the judge directed that temporary all
| mony to the amount of SO a month be
| paid until the case has passed its final
| hearing or until the further order of the
court.
A number of letters from the defendant
to the plaintiff and vice versa were Of
| fered in evidence some OF which were of
| a decidedly interesting character. The
| plaintiff was represented by Mr.. d. Fl.
| Clark and the defendant by Messrs. c. W.
| Owens and w r. Slater.