The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-12-14
Tore OF Wedding Rings and Threw Them
Into Fire; Dragged Her by the Halr.
WIlC0xS0N MAKES COUNTER CHARGES
wife Went Bathing With an Indian Msharajah
RscsIrsd English ARM Officers In Her
60udor and Smoked Cg,piss.

| NeW YORK, Dec. F.-NOW The uues-
ton is, can you swim with an Indian
maharajah. receive English army cap.
tains IN your boudoir, call English gen.
erals Tommy" receive letters from
admirals. smoke perfumed cigarettes
keep the pictures OF other men beside
| your husbands in your room, and vet
not give your husband grounds for re-
| proof?
| But' on the contrary, can YOU strike
! your wife, tear off her wedding ring
ana throw IL into the fire. toss up a
| com 20 see whether you leave your
| wife or stay. pull her ears. drag her
| around by the hair IF her head and in
| dulge In pistol practice I'm her boudoir .
These and other questions came out
| yesterday in the supreme court. before
Justice Russell where Mrs Phoebe
Wilcoxson is suing her husband, Mar
TIN Wilcoxson, for "A separation on the
grounds of cruelty and Abandonment.
The husband denies everything and
puts in all sorts Of counter Charges
The wife is a beautifuI, superbly fig
ured Englishwoman, just p years old.
The husband IL scion of the old Pruyn
FAMILY or Albany. on his mothers side.
Ills father was "A French count, and
when his mother dies the young man
can be one too. The mother has MANY
land.
The young people married i'm 1892.
Their ftrst fight was during the honey
moon, while they We're travelling i'm Ire
land. The husband, according to Mrs
Wilcoxson. tore off her wedding ring
and threw IL into the fire. She got an
other and he did the same thing with
Weren't you frequently I'm bathing
at ostend with an Indian prince named
Maharajah Carpatatia?" asked the
husbands lawyer.
only when my husband was along,
replied the Wife.
do YOU smoke cigarettes, Mrs. Will
COxson?"
II some times do"
while you We're visiting the wife of
Gen. Thomas Frazer at Chatham didn't
you become so well acquainted with the
general that you called him Tommy p"
once her husband swore that she
struck him in the face with "A riding
whip. She denied doing this. but ad-
mitted that a. +. Douglass picture was
among the others that her husband
had destroyed during a fit of anger
He Is cousin OF Lord Sholto Doug
las. Oscar Wilde's friend. A letter from
him signed Ever your pay" and an
other from Admiral Hammick Of the
English navy were admitted i'm evil
dence.
"Will YOU swear that you are In love
now WITH man in England--or I'm ire
and?" asked the lawyer.
Il am not"
I'm Dover didn't you often receive
gentlemen callers at your apartments H'
YES. sir"
WAS the door closed when they call
ed?"
1t may have been"
Among these callers were there not
Mr. or Capt. Parker. Hammick. Logan.
Douglas. Romayne, Schlesinger and
Frazer
Yes"
In her own defense the wife said:
My husband would take "A c~'-- Frnm
hts pocket. toss IL in the air and saw:
Heads, | leave you; tails, rema -
He tossed a coin just before our little
daughter was born 10 see if he would
go away or not. He lost and STAYED
until ten days after the baby was born
and then he left. kicking me I'm the leg
before he went.
"He has dragged me around by my
hair and has fired pistol at me. He
pulled my ears while we were out driv-
ing MY love died the first time he