The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
TELLS STORY OF INTENSE
MISERY DURING MARRIAGE
Mrs. Christina Anthony Continues Her ale of
Suffering While Welded to DR.. Richard S. An
thony the Man She Raised to a Higher Plane

Mrs. Christina Anthony occupied the
witness stand in Judge Hebbard's
courtroom all day yesterday and con-
tinued her story of the torture she al
leges she experienced at the hands of
ber husband, DIR. Richard S. Anthony.
The tale of her sufferings has been pub
lished at various times, yet those who
listened to the story told by the won-
an under oath, forced to believe her
and believing. sympathize with her.
The story she told on the witness
stand yesterday and last week is the
strangest ever heard in a courtroom
She is native of South Africa and
GENES of one of the leading Boer fami-
lies of that distant country. While liv-
ing there she met Anthony, who was
engaged in missionary work. 1t was
love match and she began to use her
influence to raise him to a higher sphere
in life. With her money she gave him
better education and brought him to
Michigan in order that he might pre-
pare for the study of medicine. Subse-
quently the couple came to this city and
College, from which he graduated They
returned. 10 SoIoh Africa and through
her influence the husband was given
charge of a big sanitarium owned by
her relatives. subsequently the Boer
war broke out and DIR. Anthony was ar
rested by the British Government on a
charge of treason. and through the no
BILE efforts of the woman who now sues
ha Of he oh
tained annuIled he was saved from
being executed. The wife preceded her
husband to this country and was fol-
lowed by him. He, Immediately upon
his arrival. accused her of infidelity and
tried to deprive her of her two chill
dren.
FAILED TO KEEP PROMISE.
From the evidence adduced yester-
day, it was shown that even after the
doctor had obtained the decree of di-
vorce he lived with his wife and cor
responded with her. He had promised
her that at the end of six months, if
she was a good woman and had chas-
tened her soul, he would TemaTry her.
Instead of keeping his promise. the doc
tor and a woman who had nursed the
first wife journeyed to Yuma, Ariz-,
and were married.
The sufferings the wife alleges she
underwent affected her health. She ac
cuses the doctor of having obtained the
separation from her while she was in
a sanitarium and incapable of making
a defense. She charges that her hus-
band had compelled her to write let
ters to various people admitting that
she had been guilty of misconduct as
a wife. She stated that the affidavit
introduced by her husbands counsel,
in which she asks the court to grant
her husband a divorce and making GER
| tain admissions, was sworn to under
duress, menace and trickery. She testi-
| fed yesterday that at her husband 3
| instigation she went to various news
paper offices to stop the publication of
articles that were detrimental to him
and upon reporting her failure to sup
press the publication of stories of the
divorce he uobraided her and told
their children that their mother was
bad woman, and while suffering from
this further humiliation she took poi
son with suicidal intent and was saved
from death by her husband and an
other physician.
STORY OF SUFFERING.
Mrs. Anthony told her story without
any attempt to be dramatic or SEN
sational Her voice was seldom raised
above a whisper, as if she keenly felt
the disgrace At times the statements
of the witness were so remarkable that
the spectators marveled that she could
have gone through all she had and
lived. Her condition is very bad and
during the present trial she has faint
ed a number of times. Judge Hebbard
was exceedingly kind sterday and
whenever the witness showed signs of
fatigue he called halt.
when we were living at "a Webster
street" testified Mrs. Anthony, the
doctor kept his eye on me- If 1 at
tempted to go out he would stop me.
Ny clothes were hidden, my hat was
hidden and even the door was locked.
If 1 tried to leave the house he would
force me into a room and throw me
down on a cot. He slept in his sisters
house and watched me all day"
Attorney Grant Carpenter ther asked
Mrs. Anthony to tell the circumstances
that led to her attempt to commit sui
eide.
1T was all due to my attempt to see
you, Mr. Carpenter" replied the wit
ness. He would not let me call on
you and then he compelled me TO visit
the newspapers to have them stop pub