Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-24

hold, bay the girl out of II. $50: M
gas bill and buy his clothes, pay t@xses
Insurance. ETC., afterwards out Of q 1N1rr
Their allowance Of 81 q week, or MA
per month. When my money ran ONT,
he got angry il | asked him for more,
and SO | did without, rather tnan a4k
him. He would accept ADVICE,
and he was utterly unreasonanlei WHAT
would please him at n time dispieas-
! ed him at another. He is the very en-
| bodiment of selishness. Always ate
and wanted the best on the table LOT
himself, even if the others got noneTol
the peaches or fruit. N
"My mother furnished the home.
| Once | asked him for $1.25 to 90 g
Moundsville with a school girl friend,
| and he showed Off his temper in the
presence of my friend; that he did not
have money to throw away on visitors
and, finally, mother said she YOU'D
| give it to me.
"Our quarrels averaged at least one
a month. He usually began on the
subject of money, and d on lne
| subject mentioned in the amended petit
tion."
The witness told in detail about her
unhappy relations with the defendant as
man and wife.
His aunt egg basket he made me carry.
He was O proud to do so, and opllged
me to pay five cents to ship It pack-
cannot live with him. The marriage
relation with him is too
He has struck me, and threatened TO
knock me down. He is very unsympa-
| thetic. He is quite Indifferent to othef
peoples feelings. l am still under
treatment. He has remained at the
house since the suit was brought. he
occupies one room, and mother ana l
another. Since December 10, when we
| separated. he has given me more han
he ever did before. He lays the money
on the c%hiffonier, and | get II. For SIX
weeks | have. not eaten at me same
! table with him-no communications Tor
the last six weeks, and very little before
| that. l nave no love for him. | have
a feelingaof intense %loathing. AS long
as his partner was away out west,
things went a little better. That partner
had told him $500 to 5000 was sufficient
to provide for any family at the out
side.
I'VE have no child. | do own some
six lots, worth about $50 a piece, IN
Indiana. This is a fair estimate OF
property with the exception OF the
house mother bought, furniture, etc.
He contributed $3.50, mother the rest,
and she furnished the house. | don
know the value of his store. He has
| also three policies of insurance, $1,000,
81, COO and another of 81 ,Uvo, made pay
able to me. He gave me two bonds OF
$500 each, earning together $50 inter-
est annually. These | putin bank IN
a box to which l gave him n OF the
keys and left the bonds and box in the
bank. Lately found the bonds gone,
| although | had been given them -abso-
lutely. Mr.. Arnold took them. 1t was
about two years ago when he gave
them to me-"
On cross-examination by Mr.. Weems
she adhered to the form and substance
of her testimony. 1t was elected, how
ever, that the $75 proposition he made
her last fall had not been accepted be-
| cause it included the buying OF his
clothing, gas, insurance and other
kindred bills, although Mr.. Weems at
tempted to, show that there was a
margin of $1O0 per annum out Of which
the clothing was to come. This was
not cleared up.
II never knew" she continued, what
he spent on himself. | think he was
penurious and parsimonious with 9TH
ers, but ~extravagant on himself.
DR.. West testified to treating Mrs.
Arnold, and his evidence c~orroborated
that given iby her.
Mrs. Carter's Testimony.
I'm the mother of the petitioner. I
live with her and her husband at Bell
aire. | came there the first time in
June, during her illness at, the Wind
sor Hotel. l remained two weeks. She
was pregnant and homesick. He had
promised that she could come home
whenever she wished. That was be-
fore marriage. In June, however, he
said this tBellaire) is her home. |
told him there is no cure for home
sickness, Charlie. / took her home.
Then we bought the house, the under
standing being that I should live with
them. That was about last week in
September, 1898, when we went to
housekeeping.
Il first noticed that she was ailing
after she had consulted me about the
intolerable pains she suffered, asking
me whether that was natural. She be-
came desperate. She ran out of the
house and l prevailed upon him to go
out and bring her in. He did so. Then