The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-05
NEW WOMAN TO PAY ALIMoNY

Mrs. Emma Bernard strenuous
type of the new woman" has been
legally parted from her husband, Will
liam C. Bernard, by County Judge
Davis in a remarkable divorce decree.
The husband, who was the plaintiff,
was refused the decree. but he was
awarded, in the form Of alimony, an
annual pension, payable by his wife
on the day before Thanksgiving every
year Under the court order he will
receive s43, or 81 for every year of his
life. This pension is to be increased at
the rate OF 81 per year SO long as he
lives.
The wife was given the divorce de-
cree and was ordered to pay 800, the
amount of her husbands attorney fee,
on the ground that she is benefited to
that extent in getting rid of him.
Should the husband lead an immoral
life his pension will be reduced by the
court, and should the wife demean her
self improperly the husbands portion
is to be- increased. Mrs. Bernard has
an annual income of $500 from the
estate OF ner father, the late stephen
Crane, q noted lawyer. She was a wild
ow when she married Bernard.
Bernard IN his complaint, asked for
alimony. He said he did this because
his wife had money and ne needed
money. He testified that he was en-
ployed to manage her farm and that
she popped the question. He declared
that after a few months she had gone
back on her promise to pay him 50
a week for being her husband.
Bernard said that once when he re-
belled his wife fired three shots at him,
one bullet striking him in the foot.
Mrs. Bernard, in her answer, aleg-
ed non-support. On the witness stand
she admitted that she had proposed
marriage to Bernard; that after mar
riage she had paid him a regular an
nual income of $3.50; that she made him
do all the chores and assist her in the
washing and cooking.
She paid for his cigars and his neck
ties. She gave him a saddle horse,
overcoat and umbrella, which he
pawned or sold.
She said her husband was only a
dude" and expressed a desire in
court to "douse9 him in a tub. He
was a hotel clerk in Lexington when
he met her In her evidence she said
he was "indelent. loving. lying, gentle
deceitful, persuasive, stealing and
soft
In his petition her husband mention
ed her colored house servant, Harry
Barnes. On the stand she said the fact
of her having called Barnes Petite,
"Dearie'' or Lowe in the presence OF
her husband, signified nothing. as she
was liable to bestow those epithets or
cats, dogs and calves, and had even
so called her attorney
| She said that when she lived at her
country home during the summer the
members of the family, with the col
ored servant, played ball and flew kites
together, because they were isolated
and had to seek some sort of distrac-
| ton from the monotony of the life.
Mrs. Bernard admitted using profane
| language and added: How could you
| help it, Judge, with that MANI"
She said she threw a lamp at him
when he took $50 from her pocketbook
He sold horse she gave him, she de-
clared, and pawned much of her jew
e1ry. She admitted she had said she
wished him dead
Concluding her testimony, she said
her present experience would deter heI
from entering into another marriage