The San Francisco call., 1904-02-07
BARTLES TIRES
OF MATRIMONY
Former Vallejo Business Man
Applies for Divorce on the
Ground That Wife Is Cruel
SAYS SHE NEGLECTS HIM
Ayers That She Once Humili-
ated Him by Unseemly Con-
duct With Men at Cliff House

Frank Bartles, recently Of the firm
OF Doty & Bartles OF Vallejo. is the
plaintiff in a suit for divorce fled yes
terday. The defendant is Mary Bar
ties. 10 whom he was married at
Stockton Ia 1892. He asks for a di-
vorce on the ground Of cruelty and the
custody OF their one child, a girl aged
10 years, who. he claims, II allowed to
remain with her mother. will be per-
mItted 10 associate with persons whose
characters are not OF the best.
According 10 Bartles he has been a
very miserable man for the last year
or two. He alleges that during that
time his wife neglected him, refused
10 mend his clothes or prepare his
meals. and otherwise conducted her
SELF contrary 10 the rules governing a
good and dutiful and loving wife. She
even went so far, he says. as 10 leave
him alone when he was sick in bed,
intrusting 10 stray visitors the task of
administering the medicines pre-
scribed for him.
He says that on September 9 OF last
year, while he was an inmate of the
French Hospital. she came to see him.
Instead Of greeting him kindly. as
should a loving wife, he alleges she
cursed him and told him she would
dE him" she also, he says. cursed
his mother, who happened to be in his
room when she arrived.
Bartles also claims that his wife is
responsible for his retirement from
the firm OF Doty & Bartles. He says
that she deliberately slandered him TO
his partner, George Doty, with the re-
sult that DOty forced him out Of the
business
DISTURBED PARTY.
Barues further complains that his
wife disturbed a little tamale party
he held at his home one night by or
dering his mother out Of the house
and that one day while they were
enjoying themselves at the Cliff House
she made him appear ridiculous by her
conduct with strangers. He says she
sat upon the laps Of several men,
drank with them and. notwithstand-
ing his presence. caressed them.
Josephine Heydenfeldt. a very pref
y blonde with rosy cheeks and bright
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vOrce court before Judge Sloss yester-
day. She was granted a divorce on
the ground Of cruelty from Thor A.
Heydenfeldt, one Of the famous Hey
denfeldt family She testified that
Heydenfeldt whose wife she became
AZ san Rafael in 1902, was a most
cruel husband. and that because of
his brutality she had TO leave him.
she said he had q most violent tenn
per and when things did not 20 to
suit him he would vent his anger upon
her. He cursed and swore at her with
great frequency. she said, and once.
when they were living in Oakland.
struck her. Her testimony was cor
roborated by that Of Mrs Hattie Trim
bic. the woman who introduced her to
Heydenfeldt.
Frank p Purcell who last July
was shot in a saloon row at Point
Richmond. is being sued for divorce
by Eva 7. Purcell In her complaint
she charges that he is addicted to the
excessive use Of intoxicants and that
she was frequently compelled to 20
into saloons. where he spent most of
his time and money, and persuade him
10 come home.
CHARGE DESERTION.
Jennie Mount is seeking divorce
from Thomas J. Mount on the ground
OF desertiOn. She AYERS that he de-
serted her q year ago. They were
married in Indiana. Desertion IS
also charged by Alexander Peterson in
his suit against Anna L. Peterson.
y. p. Pauhlson wants a divorce from
Betty Pauhlson on the ground of ex-
treme cruelty. He charges that be-
cause OF her vicious temper and habit
Of calling him an "old stiff" an or
dinary bum" and "an old fool he is a
very miserable man. He alleges fur
ther that two months after their mar
riage in Sweden she informed him in
most emphatic terms that she had
made mistake in marrying him; that
he was not a man Of her style and that
he could not earn money enough TO
support a woman Of her standing.