The San Francisco call., 1904-07-01
POSTAL CLERK
is: UNDER FIRE
Wife: of Henry Martin Says
+. That She. Was Subjected
to- Incredible Brutality


Harry 81 Martin. clerk in the post
Office: is the. defendant in a divorce suit
flied by bis wife, Nellie. She alleges
a series of brutalittes on his part ex-
tending over a period Of nearly three
years. Mrs. Martin had been married
! before. and had. two children named
Hesketh, Her habit Of going to see her
little girl. who was sick in a hospital, is
given: as a reason for Martins locking
her. out of their home, and when she
was ashamed TO go to the home of her
parents ON these occasions she would
sit on the front steps of the house all
night.
+. The first act of cruelty mentioned oc-
Cured on August Is. 1901, when. after
their. return from a picnic Of postal
clerks, he is said to have thrown her
Upon the floor. = jumped upon her,
kicked her and called her vile names.
Several other dates are mentioned
chok6d and otherwise abused her, and
once he is said to have threatened to
throw his mother-in-law downstairs
for interfering
Mrs Martin declares that several
times he threatened to kill her and
that he sqlandered his means in drink
! ing and carousing. Besides household
furniture. they have 1920 in the bank
Mrs. Martin asks the court TO restrain
him from disposing Of It, For this rea-
son the Hibernia Savings and Loan So
eiety is made party to the suit. She
asks for. $40 a month alimony and $3.50
attorneys fees.
E, f. Hawkins yesterday sued his
/ wife Lillian for divorce on the ground
l,-r4 lis 4
in the complaint and says that Mrs.
hawkins is living with him at Carriers,
TuOlHmne County. Hawkins was mar
ried at Santa Cruz in 1895. Three chill
] dren are the issue.
HANFoRD'S MONEY.
The temporary restraining. order
granted on. Tuesday by Judge Seawell
against Robert G.. Hanford and Albert
Hanford, preventing them from dis
posing of the millionaire's property
! pending the hearing of his wife's suit
for divorce, was found to be too rigor-
/ Gus.
Yesterday the Hanfords succeeded ir
obtaining. from Judge Seawell a modi-
! flcatiOh Of the order so as to permit
them to. handle their money In the or
binary course of business and to pay
their personal expenses. The court
says that the order must not be con-
strued in any way to interfere with or
prohibit the defendants from using
money in bank or on hand in the usual
course of business and in payment of
accounts now due and to become due
or any personal expenses either of them
may have. Nor are they restrained
from carrying on their usual business.
Marguerite Hanford sued her hus-
band for divorce on account of his con-
fessed love for Gabriel Cavalsky. In
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transferred much Of his property tC
Albert Hanford in order to prevent her
from getting alimony or a share of his
possessions. She asked the court to pre-
vent the brothers from disposing of the
property.
Other suits for divorce were filed yes
terday by Ernest A. Knoop against Sa-
die Knoop, desertion; Lucy Stevens
against Clyde A Stevens. cruelty; Lucy
A. Jacobs against Ernest Jacobs
neglect; Jannette Elgie Paine against
William b. Paine, desertion and neglect;
r. H. Norton against Mary NJ. Norton,
desertlon, and z. Van Benthusen
against 7. c. Van Benthusen, neglect.
ACTOR is FREED.
Presiding Judge Graham after hear
ing the. story Of desertion told by. Will
liam T. Ebbets, an actor in the Mo-
rOsco-Neill company, yesterday granted
hfm a divorce from Martha Jane Eb-
bets. whom he married in Boston May
s, 1894 Ebbets said his wife deserted
him in July. 1895. but later he met her
at Cincinnati and she asked him TO pro-
vide grounds upon which she might
obtain a divorce. This he declined to
do and brought the suit on his own ac-
count. The actors testimony was cor
roborated by Edwin H. Neill of the
Morosco-Neill company.
On the ground Of desertion Judge
Graham granted a divorce to- Mamie
Hinkel from Henry G. Hinkel. and de-
creed that she should have the house