The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-01
WIFE WANTSDIVORCE
NEW CHAPTER IN STORY OF MARI
tai MISERY OF sTEINACKERs.
RECONCILIATION WAS BRIEF
HUSBAND SOON BEGAN TO TREAT
HER CRUELTY AGAIN.

Suit for Divorce Was Filed by Stein
acker Against His Wife a Year
Ago, in which Blasting and Sem
sationaI Charges Were Made.
steinacker Attempted to Kill Him
self shortly Afterwards and a Rec
OnciIiation FoIlowed-Only Brief
in Its Duration-Endcd When
Schumacher Threatened to XIII His
Wife, HIS Daughter and Himself.
Now Threatens to Destroy Furni-
ture.
A cross libel for total divorce, in
WHICH Mary v. Steinacker is the plain
tiff and George T. Steinacker the de-
clerk of the Superior Court on yester-
day. 1t opens new chapter in a long
story of marital misery.
The husband filed a petition for a
total divorce from his wife nearly a
year ago, in which he made the most
serious charges against her character
and conduct. The filing of the appli-
cation for a divorce had followed a
series of sensational incidents in
which the husband and wife had flg-
ured prominently. Immediately after
this petition was filed, Mrs Steinacker
rctaliated with an application for per-
manent and temporary alimony and
attorneys fees.
Then came another of the sensa-
tional incidents which have been so
plentifully besprinkled over the career
of the parties for the last two years.
On July r. Schumacher attempted to
end his life by shooting himself
through the head and came so nearly
succeeding that for weeks he lowered
between life and death.
His wife said his illness was so des-
perate her animosity against him was
stilled. She instructed her lawyers to
cease the prosecution of the proceed
ings for alimony and insisted upon her
right as a wife to attend Steinacker in
his extremity and to seek to lure his
unwilling steps in the direction of re-
covery and restoration to health and
strength. 1t was her fond hope, she
says in her petition, that the reconcil-
iation effected at his sick bed would be
permanent and that it would be pos
sible for them to weave together the
broken and tangled threads of their
unhappy life.
This hope soon faded. Mrs. Stei-
hacker says that soon after his re-
covery her husbands behavior to her
daughter and herself became once
more harsh and cruel, to such an ex
tent that their lives were made almost
uncomfortable. On March II he capped
the climax of a long series of persecu-
tions and cruelties by threatening to
kill his wife and daughter and then
end his own life. They had at last, in
fear of their lives and driven by his
cruelty, to leave the shelter of his roof
and seek refuge elsewhere.
Since that time his conduct has been
scarcely less violent. His wife says he
has threatened to destroy the furniture
in their home with an ak, or to dispose
of it and apply the proceeds to his own
use. This furniture is located in the
house in which they have lived, at 11s
Park avenue, east.
Mrs. Steinacker says this furniture
does not belong to her husband but to
herself, having been set aside as
homestead for her support and that of
her daughter. She asks for an injunc-
ton prohibiting the defendant from
destroying or selling this property,
pending the further action of the court
An application for temporary and per-
manent alimony and counsel fees is
also made part of her petition, which
was filed on her behalf by Beckett &
Beckett.
Judge Barrow granted a temporary
restraining order, prohibiting the de-
struction or alienation of the furniture
by the husband AMI directing him to
show cause on April why the re-
straining order should not be contin-
Ted in force and he be required to pay
alimony and counsel fees to his wife
until the final disposition of the case on
it's merits