Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-20
MORSE WAS A BAD one
Mrs, Morse Says That He Cues.
toned Her Chastity When.
ever He Got Mad.
Details Of the Incidents at Jack.
sonville and Battle Creek
Sanitarium.
A Dutch Lunch in Grinnell..Rep.
utable and Venerable Ply
sician Dragged in.
Special to Times-Republican.

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4 Montezuma. Nov. 2o.-As the Mors
cases progresses its interest intensifies
| Yesterday afternoon brought out ;
| foretaste of the scandalous story ant
| foreshadowed to some degree the natur,
of the evidence to come. The scanda
lover who rolls the salacious details o.
! a divorce case as sweet morsel under
his tongue will have occasion to smaci
4 his lips before the trial ends. There Is
| dalous in the outline furnished yester-
| day afternoon in the testimony of Mrs
Morse, who was still upon the direct ex-
animation when court adjourned last
| evening. Since II o'clock she had beer
continuously under examination, with
the exception OF the adjournment fol
dinner and the short recesses granted
by the court. She bore the ordeal well
What she will do when she comes UNI
der the scathing cross-examination OF
Walpole Wood will be another story.
During her testimony yesterday c. r,
Morse. defendant, certainly sat for his
picture. From California to the Allan
tic and from Chicago to the gulf she
traced a series of cruelties, Of blows, of
jealous suspicion put into words and of
insults to her womanhood suffered at
his hands. Morse sat quiet and digni-
fed under the arrangement, save when
some unusually severe statement of his
Wife brought the blood to his cheek in a
pink flush and caused him to wriggle
oil, Ga,
with his hands. During her testimony
she often glanced at him and on one or
two occasions turned to him for affirm
alton or correction. On these occasions
he nodded his head in support of the
correctness of her memory.
Her forenoon testimony covered the
trip to Grinnell from Los Angeles via
the Canadian Pacific. 1t included the
Irritation of Mr.. Morse with charmel
upon the train in which his wife's as
sistance was required to put the amour
upon proper schedule and in running
order matter which widened the rift
within the lutte that the corn doctor cpl
sode had started when at Portland
Morse filed practitioner of chiropody
with regret and shocked Mrs. Morse at
the outset of her honeymoon by Ian
guage frightfully profane In the af-
ternoon she unfolded a tale of marital
woe which put her husband in any
thing but an enviable position.
FLED TO CHICAGO.
The dramatic incident of the after
noon occurred when Mrs Morse told o
the scene which preceded her trip to
Chicago alone, when she sought out ane
threw herself on the protection Of he
old-time friend and fiance. Preslden
Bromley, of the Bicycle Trust Com
pany.
The row began at the Morse mansion
Mr.. Morse had. it is alleged scolded his
sister, since Dead and Mrs Morse re
turning found her in tears She ch!det
him for his action and was met with re.
elimination. He accused her Of alienat
Ing his grandchlld and of driving his
children from his home. He shook hi.
fists in rage and made use of his ia
yorite expression that the world is my
home" He threw his derby hat ct hel
barely missing her nose and acted ac
cording to the testimony like mad
man. II said, continued the witnes.
dramatically with tears in her eyes ant
voice, Give me money to go home. Oh
give me money to go to my old Cali
fornia home and my mother! o let ms
so home to her. Every bit of bread
eat in your house chokes me. Mothers.
home was humble compared to yours
but there is love there. l got upon my
knees and begged TO go home l threw |
my wedding and engagements rings UP
on the floor ard cried let me go. He |
told me i couldn't have no money. |
Felt as tho the ceiling would fall upon
me. / couldn't breath there. He tol, |
me no one had any use for me; that
ne was big man in Grinnell and tina,
people would believe him against me. |
'ushed from the house without a wral
n hat. / wandered on the street.
sat on the steps at the Baptist church.
went here and there. didn't knot
What to do. AT last went back to TIL
house and opened the door, told the
servant, Ellen Holland, that was going
o my mother. ! hoped all the time
hat Mr.. Morse would come out ano
'omfort me. He didn't come. / got
mall satchel and the servant saw ms
nut and hoped I'd get home all right.
lad s25, the remains of my allowance
When / went into the street.
"As 1 walked toward the depot Pt
.idnt want people to see me and kept
ut Of sight as much as possible. A
asst i went to the depot and got my
icket for Chicago"
While Mrs. Morse was telling her pit
full starry even the stuicai features @
he grouped attorneys showed evidence:
sympathy and feeling and the small
uo!ence of interested auditors hung on
err every word
When she reached Chicago she went
0 the auditorium and sent for Mr..
Bromley. He had been her lover and
'as still her friend She thought he
1ould help her home to her mother.
He came, provided her with a physi.
ian and assisted her In ner search for
'ertha Hudrey, nurse who had ono.
cen employed by her. She was found
mployed In ticket office, but came to
err assistance She went to the homo {
a Mrs Wells, mother of the nurse, I
heap boarding place for the poorer
ass Of boarders. From there she re-
IT. Bromley, accompanied by the ply
cail, LII. StedSSI, dIiu ny MI Fealn-
stone visited her. Bromley told her she /,
ust return to her husDaad. iaorse by I
lie way had been notified by telegram .
ally of her whereabouts and condition. !
l company with the nurse she came I
ONE. Bromley furnished means thru I
eatferstone, supplying the nurse with
90 without Mrs Morse's knowledge. 6
This is one of the cases where Morse I