The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-28
The MANAESPANKEDTHE BABY
so SAYS DIR. WUEST'S WIFE. SUING
FOR 4 SEPARATION.
She Also Declares That He Tried 10 Jump
Out Of the window on Ills Wedding
Night. and when She Wouldn't Let Him,
Behaved Like q Demented Man.

Lulu +. Wuest, wife of DR.. Charles wuest,
Coroner's physician Of Brooklyn, has
presented to the Supreme Court a pictur-
esque complaint In suit for separation.
She met the doctor, she says, In the spring
Of 1885, when she was rs and he 80 In
October Of that year they wero carried,
and the night of the wedding they went 70
the Waldorf. She was alarmed TO observe
that her husband drank heavily that hight
and that he partook Of morphine and other
narcotics. He Explained this by assuring
her that his continued faithfulness to her
during the period Of their engagement had
made him a nervous wreck Presently he
tried TO jump out OF the bridal chamber
window. but she grabbed him and pulled
him back, whereupon he behaved like one
demented. On their honeymoon trip to
the West he constantly asked her if there
was not q crowd Of little men with big
mouths standing behind him."
When they returned they went to live
in Brooklyn, where DR.. Wuest had built
up a large private practice One Of his
little peculiarities, she declares. was a habit
of taking cold baths just before going to
bed Sometimes he would take az many
as SIX or seven in night. and after each
one she had To massage his body and limbs
He would seldom eat at the table with her
and when he did he seemed to take q strange
deli ght in throwing roast beef on the floor.
Fairly in 1898, she says, he began to as
sure her that he wanted to leave her and
get back to his old life. He vented his
spleen. she says, on their infant child His
animosity toward the baby took an acute
phase when il cried, and on one such oc-
casion, she declares, he picked the infant
up and spanked II so hard that the maid
!
Sometimes be would fling the baby on he
library couch exclairning that he would
-break the little devils neck" Her tribu-
ations at last got beyond all endurance,
and. after he had assaulted her by Selling
| her by the throat. slIe concluded to leave
him. and went to her mrther's home.
That was IN November 1890. and IA few
weeks later DR.. Wuest was appointed Cor
! oners physician. His salary as such was
5000 a year, and this with lis private
| practice gave him an income. she saws,
/ of almost $1,000 Soon after his appoint
ment, she declares. he begged her TO return
| 20 him. promising her horses. carriages and
| other Injuries. On his representa- ions
and promises Of better behaN or she con-
scented. One of her first discoveries was
| that her husbands brother had slandered
her and she promptly threw ont Of he house
the photograph Of the offending brot her
u-law Her husband retaliated by strik-
ing her on the arm with the empty frame
and then taking down her fathers portrait
and throwing II out of the window.
Another complaint that Mrs. Wuest has
to make concerning her husbands coucuc,
relates to his attentions 10 one of heir
servant girls He exhibited his apprccin-
ton Of this particular young woman by
insisting that she alone should tuck him
into bed" and by buying her presents of
candy, and throwing away the empty boxes
lest his wife should discover them. Finally
in March 1900, he told Mrs. W,iest to get out
and she suited the act ion TO the word. \
month later articles Of separation were
drawn up be' ween them, she taking their
two young children and he agreeing To
allow her s2j week. This arrangement
lasted until about June Of this year. when
he refused to pay her the allowance any
longer.
Dr. Wuest has not vet served any notice
of appearance or made any answer to his
wife's charges, hut il is understood that
he will defend the suit vigorously and deny
almost all her statements.