The San Francisco call., 1904-12-15
MOTHER NOTE
IN DEPOSITION
Mrs. Estes Letter, Calling
Curse Upon Chorus Girl,
Not Admitted in Evidence
PICKS FRUIT AND SEWS
Doctors Wife Tells of Her
Efforts to Earn Living.
Husband Names Successor

There was never any friendliness be-
tween Myrtle Scott Estes and her
mother-in-law, but the most signif-
cant passage regarding their enmity
contained in the chorus girls deposit
tion was not admitted in evidence yes
terday by Judge Kerrigan. 1t was
letter purporting 10 have been written
by Mrs. Rebecca Estes a few weeks be-
fore DR.. Estes and Miss Scott were
married. The note, as read for identifi-
cation. was as follows:
Miss scott-You are a human hend How
dare you phone 10 my house? Are you not
stroyed his health and broken up his practice?
He is now on the verge Of insanity and has
days. May a mothers curse rest on you as
long you live and follow you wherever you
are For Gods sake. what has he done that
YOU should drive him TO his death2 This much
I know: II 1 ever meet you in his office
thing I DO on earth And more than that we
will have you arrested for soliciting money.
he tells me you drew money out Of the bank
which you had no business to do Why are
such devils you let live? / wish you would
send this letter 10 your aunt that she may
know what I think OF you. will sign my
self "Girley'' and Little Myrtle and Your
are always pleading poverty and sickness under
and working on peoples sympathies.
There were a great many other
things in the deposition, mostly having
to do with Estes failure to provide for
his wife. On many occasions, she said,
he would not pay their board bills, and
in Alameda she paid the room rent by
sewing for the landlady. Part of the
time she supported herself by sewing
for Sc a week; again she was chorus
girl, and at another time she dressed
the leading lady at Fischer's. For
three months she and Estes worked in
the Santa Clara orchards picking and
cutting fruit. He only worked a third
of the time and was, she said, often un-
der the influence of opium. Fearing he
would take an overdose, she took the
drug away from him, and then woke up
in the night to find him standing over
her with a broken ak I am going to
end il ALL" he said, according to her
evidence. She says, too, that once he
grabbed her by the throat. To-day sew
en- or eight witnesses will be examined
in her behalf.
A piano players desire to have his
wife get a divorce and marry a sailor
was partly realized in Judge Graham's
court yesterday. Mrs. A. Schreiner was
given an interlOcutory decree from Per-
cy Schreiner, who is following his mu-
sical bent in Tacoma A letter in Ger
man was introduced in evidence, and in
it the husband said he could not sup
port a VIE. he ADVISED neI 10 get d Ill
vorce, and said he would send Joe
Fisher, a sailor, down to marry and
take care of her.
Blanch G. Meyer yesterday had her
marriage with William H. Meyer an
nulled by Judge Graham because of de-
ceit practiced by the man. He was
friend of the girls family. He came
from New York and sent word that he
was sick at the Lick House. The un-
sophisticated maiden went there to
nurse him, and after her attentions he
told her that If she did not marry him
her reputation would be ruined, though
she had done nothing wrong.
Judge Murasky denied the motion for
a new trial in the case of Maud A
Wilkerson against Ira Puerl Wilkerson.
The plaintiff. otherwise Maud Amber,
formerly of Fischer's and now in Aus
tralia, got a divorce on the ground of
inidelity. The husband sought to re-
omen the case on the contention that
his wife was not a resident of Califor-
MIA when the decree was granted.
Judge Kerrigan granted a divorce to
Corinne A. Bartlett from Ward S. Bart
lett for neglect, and Judge Murasky did
the same for Sarah E. Ackerman from
John O. Ackerman for desertion.