The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-04
TERRIBLE TALES OF WOE.
Henry G. Miller and Eugene s. Gate
Sue Their Wives for Divorce.

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Sue Their Wives for Divorce.
The trial of the suit of Henry c. Miller
against his wife. Elvira Miller, for a d.
vorce was heard by Judge Allen in the
Circuit Court yesterday. Although the Mil
lers were married in 1879 they are unable
to agree, and as a consequence are not
living together. Miller brought suit against
his wife for a divorce complaining that she
mistreated him and abused his affections.
During the trial of the case yesterday Mrs.
Miller defended the action and sought to
throw the blame of their domestic troubles
on her husbands shoulders. In his testi-
mony some of the accusations Of miscon-
duct against his wife were that she threw
pancake batter all over him on one occa-
sion, at another time a plate of hot beans,
and with a passion for hurting things hot
one day she assaulted him with a pan of
hot ~hwa and at another time threat
ened to brand him with a red-hot poker IL
he came in his own house. She heated the
poker, Miller said, to carry out her threat.
other little assaults were such as hitting
him with a chunk of butter, throwing
plates and tin pans at him, and one day
offering him a horse whipping if he would
but come down from a hay wagon TO where
she could get at him. Miller testified that
on this occasion he climbed down on the
opposite side of the wagon and made his
escape.
During the illness of Harrison Miller,
fourteen years old, a son of the couple. the
father was not permitted to come near tho
house. All OF the complications brought
out In the trial yesterday furnish the basis
of Miller's objection to a continuance of
the marriage relation.
The complaint of Eugene S. Gate against
his wife Esther in his application for a
divorce filed yesterday contains all Of the
unhappy domestic disagreements that have
long been the stock in trade of joke writer's.
Gates first complaint against his wife iS
that although married in July, 1900, shortly
afterward ne was compelled to get up in
the morning, build a fire, cook his own
breakfast, eat IL, go to work, come home
at moor and find no wife, cook his dinner.
eat 1t, and so continue at his meals until
all of the clean dishes in the pantry were
exhausted. and then he would have to
wash the accumulation of soiled plates and
saucers. In the meantime. Gate AYERS, his
wife would be either sleeping or visiting
her mother. He says she spent so much of
was compelled to pack up and move there
himself. When he joined his mother-in-
laws household all bills for rents and
groceries were his. He claims that he had
and that he 'indured that strenuous life
for four months" He says his condition
became so painful then that he moved out.
furnished another home of his own, but
his wife refused to live with him. She has
not lived with him since. and recently.
on the occasion of his one-year-old son
Everett's birthday, he sent him a small
gold ring. The ring was not only not
worn by Everett. but sent back to him
'm~aliciously" by his wife.
Gates other complaints are that his wife
took most of his money and bought herself
and mother valuable presents and jewelry
beyond his means. When she could not GET
his money from him she took it from his
pockets while he slept. he alleges. This ex-
lstence is so painful to his memory that
Gate says a reconciliation Is impossible
and he wants a decree of absolute divorce.