The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-12
BOTH SEEK DIVORCE.
Mr.. and Mrs. George GIotzs| Tell
Their Troubles in Court.
Each Accuses the Other Of Cruelty and
Drunkenness---The Testimony.

After a weeks acquaintance George
Glotzel, North End tailor, married IA
country woman March 2sth last Be-
fore the summer was over he had filed
a petition for a divorce alleging con-
tinued drunkenness and extreme cru
city on the part of Marie Glotzel. Within
a few weeks thereafter Mrs. Glotzel
filed cross petition In which she
charged Mr.. Glotzel with neglect To
provide, extreme cruelty, continued
drunkenness and other gross and inn
proper conduct. Both petitions were
heard by the Appellate Court yester-
day.
Mr. Glotzel is no longer "A young man.
but he had his story OF wrong g-doing on
the part of his wife well In hand ana
for some of his facts riverted 10 memo
randa that had been kept i'm his busi-
ness letter heads. He testified that ne
had lived i'm this city IL years and that
his wife was on the 2sth Of May last
and on the 2Sth day of the following
month very drunk. So drunk that ne
had To undress her and put her To bed.
\ few days after the second drunk he
said Mrs. Glotzel tried to DO some work
on a step ladder, but owing to her con-
dition fell from IL. Witness gave his
testimony in a manner that caused
every one i'm the court room To smile
broadly. He said his wife did not know
when she had enough liquor, was fire.
quently loaded visited saloons 10 get
drunk and had been drunk in the street.
He was a good provider and left
money enough with his wife, he claim
ed, 10 get all necessary things. but the
trouble was she got more than was
necessary. once Mrs. Gotzel had at
tacked him with pair OF shears ana
he was forced to seek safety by Hight.
She made habit OF threatening him
and on August Sth he left the tenement
they had occupied and went To live in
his shop. The leaving was, Mr.. GlotZel
said due To his fear Of bodily harm
from bis wife.
Police officers Thomas J. Curley.
Thomas r McGovern and Charles Il.
Fort testified that Mr.. Glotzel was an
industrious hard working man. who
never got into any trouble. They had
all seen Mrs Glotzel on the street un-
der the influence of liquor Two other
witnesses testified they saw Mrs. Giot-
eel intoxicated.
Mrs. Spooner. who said she was a
witness To the marriage Of the parties.
proved a fluent talker and IL was evi-
dent she and Mrs. GlotZel were not
now the friends they once We're. There
parting came. Mrs. Spooner said, be-
cause she refused to dim, beer with
NlTS. frlOlZel N1IllGSS ltSlllitu Atidl
Mrs. GlotZel said that before her mar
riage =. keg of lager did not last her
week Once Mrs. Glotzel had treaten
cd. according to witness, To blow off
Mr.. Glotzels head with a revolver. This
led to a disc ussion between the two
women as to whether there was a hell
or not in which the woman who, IL is
claimed. did the threatening sustained
with much vigor the Ingersol view of
the matter.
Mrs. Clotzel denied she had been
drunk since her marriage. on her we'd
ding night she said her husband was
SO drunk she had To put him To bed.
Witnesses for Mrs. Glotze deny this
statement. Mrs. Glotzel denied she had
ever threatened 10 shoot her husband
or To poison him. once her husband,
she aVerred. threatened her with a re
VolEer and once he had struck her with
a cane for which offence he had been
bound over TO keep the peace. Her
husband had the habit of getting
drunk and keeping up the drunk. She
was positive he had once been drunk
I DAYS at a stretch. On the Wednes-
day afteR-she got married Mrs. Glotzel
claimed her husband wanted 500 or $3.50
and growled when she for "A time de-
INJURED to give IL To him. She was
forced To furnish her own clothing
though for six weeks her husland gave
her from $25 To $50 a week.
Witness. after reciting many minor
acts of alleged cruelty said that once
she followed her husband TO Wauskuck
and saw him in n house. A woman was
sitting ON his knee. She had one arm
around his neck aud he was asking for
kisses, but the woman said he had had
80 many he could want no
more. At this witness said she
boltcd into the house and told
the woman. who was married
woman. TO kiss him AZ often as she
wanted To-.
ON cross examination witness denied
she had done anything wrong since her
marriage or that she had any property
OF her own. not even $1,000 i'm cash
Page a Page arc attorneys FOR Mr.
Glotzel and Frederick Rucrckct counsel
for Mrs. GlotZcl.