The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-12-31
One Of the Charges Mrs. Wuest
Makes Against Husband.
SHE IS SEEKING A DIVORCE.
DR., wusst Is a Well Known Physician In
Brooklyn, and Is Accused of the elces.
slve Use Of Drugs and Liquor,

New York. Dec. 3I-Mrs. Lucia
h. Wuest has brought suit FOL
separation against her husband. DR.
Charles Wuest. a leading practitioner
and a coroner's physician In Brooklyn
Some of the charges she makes are
that her husband takes sometimes as
many as seven ice cold baths In one
| night; that he used drugs continually.
, threw pillows at the baby and mistreat-
ed and abused her
She will apply to Justice Fitzgerald
through her counsel. Howe & Hummel.
for alimony and counsel fee. She says
her husband has an income of at least
$4,000 a year from his practice. and $4,000
salary from the coroner's office. and that
he is able to pay a generous sum for
her support
Dr. Wuest is well known both pro-
fessionally and politically in Brooklyn.
He is thirty eight years old. and has
been unusually successful in his profess
sion. His family Is well known in
Brooklyn
Mrs. Wuests complaint is a long one.
filled with accuse tions covering the whole
period of her married life. She was mar
ried seven years ago and lived In Brook
lyn up TO the time of the separate Mrs
Wuest Is a strkingly beautiful young
matron. She has two children-Carl five
years old and Phyllis. two years and six
months old
WHIsKEY AND DRUGS AID LIB.
During their honeymoon. she says, her
husband INDUCED excessively in whiskey
and took morphine powders -anaEether-
narcotics.
His nerves were completely uns strung"
she says in her affidavit and he acted
like demented man. Suddenly he
Jumped up and ran 10 the window 1--WE
were staying at the Waldorf Astoria i'm
this city, and attempted to leap out.
grabbed him when he was half way out
and pulled him back. Then he began
TRADE OF abuse saying II was my
fault. In consequence OF this condition
on the part OF the defendant I was afraid
to sleep"
Though she was passionately fond Of
music, Mrs. Wuest says her husband
refused to let her have a piano Rarely
says. AT first he told her he had to go |
out to soc patients. but finally admitted
that he had been elsewhere. His only |
excuse for leaving her was that ne |
simply wanted to go out
Much of the time he took his meals |
With his mother. leaving her to eat alone. |
Az one time. when she was III and went /
TO Greenwood Lake. the doctor. she SAYS.
spent his vacation with his mother at |
When baby Carl was six weeks old her
husband. she says. threw a big square
pillow ar him because he cried at night
More than hundred times, she says, her
husband ordered her to leave home
Once on wild. stormy night after he
1ad ordered her out and she had tele.
'honed for cab. he relented and told
Ter she might stay.
SHUTS UP HIS PURSE
The quarrels became so bitter that
inally, she says. her husband stopped |
'ivinR her money. and shut off her ac- |
cunts AT the stores He gave the SER
ants money. and told them to paw no !
ttention TO her. She finally left him
nd went TO live at her mothers There
vas reunion when he came TO visit
he boy, and he told her she SAYS:
Come home. | am coroner's physician
ow, and have $4,000 year more. and
We can have horses and carriages"
The brother OF her husband. she said
ad circulated damaging stories about
er and she insisted tnat he apologize.
Ter husband refused to ask his brother
o do SO. and she threw the brothers
icture out Of the house Angered by
his, she ssys. her husband threw
hree -legged stool at her and when it
roke struck her with lt then threw
er dead fathers picture out the win
ow.
on" o. the. charges is that he bought
oAcs OF candy for one OF the servant
iris and told the girl to hide the boxes
nd not let her see them. When she
'as leaving she declares her husband !
aid 10 one of the servant girls.
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