The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-30
SAYS HER HUSBAND
DROVE Her TO
MADNESS
Mrs. Hulse Declares in Di-
vorce Complaint That She
Was Made Insane by Her
Husbands Abuse - Only
Bought Her a Pair of
Slippers.

Driven insane, and almost to her
grave, she says, by the cruel and inhu-
man treatment of her husband, Ella
Hulse, who was married to Andrew j.
Hulse, stationary engineer in St.
Paul, nine years ago, has brought suit
for divorce.
Before her marriage the plaintiff was
Miss Ella Rolf, and, according to her
story, was accustomed to good society.
She had been brought up in a way that
she enjoyed refined entertainments and
the society of brilliant people. AT the
age of seventeen she was married to
Andrew Hulse, and since the day Of
her marriage her life has been most
miserable one. Her husband, she says,
is an habitual drunkard, and has al
ways treated her in the most cruel and
inhuman manner. Although capable of
working at his trade and earning a
good living the husband, she says,
spent his time in hanging about Sa-
looms, where he was in the habit of
working at odd jobs for drinks and
lunch. For the maintenance Of the
wife and little son the husband is said
to have contributed but so cents per
week, and many weeks passed when
even this small amount was not forth
coming. That she might secure food
sufficient for herself and child, Mrs.
Hulse says she was compelled to do
washing and any other work she might
be fortunate enough to secure. This,
she says, was degrading, and soon lost
her the companionship of friends of
her younger days.
He treated me more as a slave than
W e." says the plaintiff, land after
spending his days in some saloon he
would come home late at night and
abuse me- He choked me and beat me,
and threatened to kill me If l COM
Mo T Of fIa txy
of my relatives, and was not allowed
to see my father and mother, who are
very dear to me. My husband was al
ways cross, and refused to talk with
me, and when L asked him q question
his answer was None of your bust
ness. He ate his lunches in the sa-
looms, and 1 was compelled to provide
the food for myself and our child.
Bought Her a Pair of Slippers.
1.-THE only clothing my husband ever
furnished me during the nine years Of
| our married life was my wedding dress
and one pair of house slippers. To keep
from starving 1 took in washing"
In the spring of 1901 the Hulses went
to Gutenberg, Iowa. where the hus-
band had secured employment at his
| trade, but according to the wife, the
treatment accorded her in the Iowa
| town was no different from that to
which she had been subjected to dur
| ing their residence in St. Paul After a
short residence at Gutenberg, Mrs.
| Hulse decided to return to her par
| ents in st. Paul. She had no money,
and, weak from the lack of food her
| life and health was JeopardiZed, dis
| couraged and distressed in mind, and,
| fearful that her hus band would do her
| great bodily injury she took the child
| a boy Of six, and started to walk back
ART Oh
| says, by her husband, who threatened
| to kill her if she did not return to him.
| In April, 1901, a month after her first
| attempt to escape, Mrs. Hulse took adj
| vantage of another opportunity to
| leave her husband. With the aid of
! charitably inclined people, she was able
! to secure transporta ton for herself and
| child to st. Paul, but when she reached
| here she was in such a condition, phys
! ically, that she was at once sent to the
city hospital. A healthy, robust young
| woman at the time of her marriage
/ she had wasted away to a mere Sha-
| dow, and was fast losing her mind
After remaining at the hospital two
! months she was declared insane and
| was sent to the asylum at Rochester
4. being released after a confinement OF
two months. Her insanity, she alleges
| was the direct result Of the treatment
| accorded her by her husband AS a re-
suit of her marriage, Mrs. Hulse says
| she is now a physical wreck, mentally
/ unsound and ostracised by the respect
able friends of her girlhood days. She
asks for an absolute divorce, protec-
ton from the violence of her husband
and the custody of her child. She also
desires to forget the name of the mar
| who has so cruelty treated her, an6
| asks the court to restore her nader
name, Ella Rolf