Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-26
ACID IN HIS WlFE'S FACE
Husband Gives Strenuous Evidence If His
+ Love for spouse.
WOMAN SEVERELY BURNED AS RESULT
L. u. Parmentsr Dashes CHrbOiic Acid
on wife After she Had Refused
to Longer Make Her Home
with Him.

Angered because his wife had left their
home L. D. Parmenter. a fireman for the
Union Pacific living at O2 North Nine
teenth street dashed carbolic acid from a
bottle into the face OF his wife about $3.50
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The woman Is
severely burned about the face and neck.
The assault occurred on the viaduct In
front OF te hunion depot.
Mrs. Parmenter states that she and her
husband separated about ten days ago.
Yesterday afternoon she met him on the
viaduct and he requested her to return
and live with him again but she refused.
Hot words were exchanged for several min
utes, when Parmenter drew bottle filled
with carbolic acid from his pocket and
dashed the contents into her face. She also
says he drew razor from his pocket at the
same time and threatened to kill her with
II.
A crowd quickly gathered around the
place and Parmenter was Immediately
placed under arrest BY. Oflcer Lahey. He
made no resistance. He was taken to the
police station and charged with assault
with intent to do great bodily harm
story Told By Husband.
The story told by Parmenter at the police
station is that when he drew his pay
check on August s his wife asked him for
at st. Paul. MINI. He gave her the money
and she was to leave the following morning.
He went to work as usual the next morn
ing. thinking that his wife would take a late
train Several days passed and he had not
heard from his spouse, so he wrote her at
her parents address in St. Paul, but re-
ceived a reply from his wife's mother
stating that Mrs. Parmenter had not been
there, and that they had not heard from her
for several weeks.
IT stood II as long as 1 could and then I
began making inquiries about my wife,"
Parmenter said. II learned from a rail-
road man that she was still in Omaha.
| This was several days ago, but 1 was
unable to learn of her whereabouts until
this morning. when she called me up over
the telephone. saying that she would meet
me on the viaduct In front of the Union
| depot"
Parmenter then told, in a voice broken
with sobs, how his wife had taunted him
and laughed when he asked her to come
| back and live with him. He says he was
| so respondent over his wife's refusal Ia
| return to their home that he went to a
drug store and procured the carbolic acid
intending to take It himself II, after another
request his wife refused to return home
with him. .-
! Didn't Think When Throwing.
He met her at the depot, and while in q
ut of anger he threw the acid at her, but
says he did not think OF what he was do
ing. -.1'
Parmenter is a young man Of perhaps q
years, and has an exceedingly boyish ap
pearance, The couple boarded at 1911 Cum
ing street all winter and had removed &c
2O2 North Nineteenth street when Tho
woman left home on the 9th Of August.
Parmenter was an engineer on the Grea
Northern railroad at Dickinson. s. D.. be
fore coming to Omaha. His parents live a
Walker, Ore, while the parents OF Mrs
Parmenter formerly ,iiyed In Omaha, bu
about three months ago removed to st
Paul ..--. ,rr ~s
I Mrs. Parmenter is not in a dangerous con
dition. She was attended by Police Surgeon
Langdon,