The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-06
BRANDED BY
HIS WIFE
Merrill, Abscond-
er, Abused Her
Love.
His LIFE A "MASS
OF FALSEHOODS"
Mrs. Merrill Asks the Court to
Rid Her of the Infamy
Of His Name.

Branded even by the wife he left be-
hind when he shook the dust of Homo
lulu from his feet to escape arrest as
an embezzler, Loren W. Merrill, the
erstwhile collector of bad debts for
large number of firms in Honolulu and
from whom these very firms had diff
Guilty in procuring the money so col
lected by him, lived life which Mrs.
Merrill characterizes as "a mass of It's
sue and falsehood'
The wife, who is school teacher in
Honolulu, has filed suit for divorce in
the Circuit Court, and the recital of
Merrill's conduct during their married
life of little more than a year indi-
Gates that Merrill was a scamp of the
first water. Not only did Merrill alb
scond with the money belonging to
firms here, but he took almost every
cent which his wife had earned as a
school teacher. leaving her almost pen
niIess.
The infamy of his name sorely
divorce she is most anxious above all
things else that the court grant her
the right to again assume her maiden
name, Minnie Eagan, so that Merrills
reputation will not cling to her-the vic
tim of his misdeeds.
Mrs. Merrill says that she has been
for more than two years last past an
actual resident in good faith of Homo
1r1l,1 To I,a ,,i an
name, intermarried with Loren w.
Merrill. the hbelIee, at Honolulu on
January 4. 1900 since which date they
lived together as husband and wife up
to May s. 1901 She further states that
the marriage ceremony uniting them as
husband and wife was performed by
Rev. Alexander Macintosh, a minister
of the gospel lawfully authorized to
perform the same.
Unmindful of his marriage vows and
recreant TO his duties as husband, the
said libellee has been guilty of extreme
cruelty toward her. She ayers that dur
ing the whole period of their married
life the conduct of the libellee has been
an abuse of her love and confidence to-
ward him, and his treatment of her,
while ostensibly kind and truthful, one
fraud and deception. She has been en-
pleyed as a teacher at the Normal
School earning salary of sS5 month.
Under various false and fraudulent pre-
fences he has obtained from her the
whole of her earnings during the period
of their living together as husband and
wife, and in such ways has obtained
more than the sum of 81 900, which he
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out the benefit of any kind to the wife.
His business methods and alleged dis
honesty, she AYERS, as we'll as disregard
for the advice and counsel of the libel
liant, have ever been a source of ex-
treme pain to petitioner, and have kept
her in such a nervous condition as to
affect seriously her bodily health and
strength She states that libellee has
been arrested upon the charge of en-
bezzlement and has often been threat
ened with arrest on the charge of other
felonfes; that he has absconded from
the Territory of Hawaii, leaving her
penniless and without provision for her
future, and at the time of his SO alb
sconding she is informed and believes,
and so states on information and belief,
that a warrant for the arrest, upon a
criminal charge, of the libellee was in
the hands of the High Sheriff, and other
criminal prosecutions were pending. or
about to be instituted against him.
That by reason of his said conduct
Merrill has left an unsavory reputation
to such an extent that it has become a
disgrace to her to bear his name. and
that from the ignominy thereof she has
been grievously wounded in her mental
feelings and her peace of mind has been
seriously affected so as to endanger her
health and possibly her life.
In every particular she states that
she has been the victim of her love and
confidence in her husband. and since
his absconding and the surreptitious
manner in which he left her, as well as
the falsehoods told her about the time
Of his leaving. she has been convinced
of his cruelty and disloyalty. and has
known what hitherto she had only sus
pected
She states further and would show to
the court that although being of suff1-
cient ability to provide suitable main
tenance for his wife. throughout the
whole of their married life, Merrill ut
terly failed and neglected to provide for
her. but On the contrary used her own
earnings, of no inconsiderable amount,
for other purposes to her unknown, and
has obtained all her earnings amount
ing to SIS a month, leaving her and
abandoning her amongst strangers with
the sum of about so in her possession.
no provision for her future, a large
amount Of money due for the unpaid
bills of the butcher and the baker, the
disgrace of his conduct, the infamy of
his name. She wishes an absolute d.
vorce and the right to resume her maid
en- name.
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