Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-12
JUL|A MAAON['S
TALE OF SORROW.
THE DEPOSITION OF THE NOTED
ACTRESS IN HER APPLICA-
TION FOR A DIVORCE.
HUSBANDS FITS OF RAGE.
She Says He Choked and Otherwise
MaItreated Her-The story of Her
Stage Troubles After Marriage.
Did Not uccee Until Taber Left
Her.

STOWE, VT, December 1.-THE af-
fdavit of Julia Marlowe Taber. used
in the hearing on her application for a
divorce before Chief Judge R. S. Taft,
in Lamoille county court, was taken
in New York by agreement December
3, 1899, before David H. Taylor, notary
public, in order not to interfere with
the engagements of the p~laitiff. w. B.
Stickncy appeared for the plaintiff, and
J.. G. Mccoy for the defendant. The
affidavit covers sixteen typewriter
pages, but much of the space is used
In questions requiring answers only OF
import from a legal standpoint. The
following is the substance Of the afi-
dayit:
After being sworn Mrs. Taber testi-
fed that her age was 20 years, and
that she lived in Stowe, VT. She was
married on May 20, 1894, and Identified
her marriage certificate, which was ex-
hibited. 1t was signed by Joseph
Blanchard, the rector Of st. James
Church, Philadelphia, which is Episco-
palian. Her name at that time was
Sarah Frances Frost, and it was after
ward changed to Julia Marlowe by the
Court of Common Pleas in New York.
After her marriage she lived in Stowe
with her husband. She said: Our
5,tu oolJad =, ovar tba country h,,t
that was our home. Our relations af-
ter we were married in 1894 were pleas
ant, but about March, 1898. they be-
came very strained. Up to that time
they had been normal. A change "a
manifested when we came to New York
to play in March. The trouble began
when we were in Providence preparing
to go to New York and a friend of
both sent me some clippings from the
press showing what had been done in
preparing Gor U.s."
Mr. Taber showed his anger at the
fact that Julia Marlowe was mentioned
more than himself by hurting a glass
at a mirror, breaking it, and being very
much enraged. They were then stay
ing at the Hotel Narraganset. She ad-
ded to this that "he had a violent tenn
per, but he couldn't stay with that de-
gree of feeling all of the time
In<New York, about two weeks after,
he grew worse because his success was
not as great as hers, and was unreal
sonably unhappy about the press re-
views. II was not as sympathetic as
! might have been because he was not
SO well received, and he threw me
down upon the bed as l was dressing
and s%trangled me and held me there.
ION another accession said Mrs.
Taber, in the affidavit, when in At
lanta, in November of 1896, he simply
took the tablecloth in his rage and
threw the dishes in the air While In
Salt Lake City, in my dressing room,
he grabbed me about the throat, when
my maid, Mary Daley rushed on him,
ohu hC Ob HSl a. OuNG, dllu Slc
had to defend herself. l think the
most harm wan done to M nerves,
although l was at times physically n
fit to play. He would go whole days
without speaking"
The Tabers went abroad in the
spring of 1898. He went across first
and knew she was coming, but did not
meet her and was unpleasant when she
found him. He then said. Everything
is over between U.S." and claimed to
have told the family solicitor to tell
Mrs. Taber SO in America. He said he
no longer considered her his wife.
In the cross-examination by Mrs.
In the cross-examination by Mr..