Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-29
Handsome Woman Tells Of Many In
stances Of Neglect and Hunnll-
iatlon in Short Marital
Career

household matters was the reason for
seeking separation given by the woman
yesterday, In stating her evidence i'm the
case, and her testimony was amply SUBJ
stntiated by the testimony or several
servants who had been employed at
Gen. Robes home on Juniper street,
San Diego.
Gen. Robe served as colonel i'm the
Ninth Infantry and has a record extend
ing over the past forty years. He was
appointed brigadier general retired,
just after his retirement several years
ago. Before his marriage to Mrs Chas.
Is Kendall at Chicago October 3, 1905, he
had been stationed at Fort Sheridan.
The general was a widower with two
grown daughters, both charming young
members Of San Diego society, Miss
Margaret the elder and Miss Catherine
the younger.
Tells Her Troubles
1t seemed a peculiar trick of fate that
the divorce case of such q we'll known
military man should have been filed for
trial before Judge Wilbur Of depart
ment of the superior court. Judge
Wilbur is graduate of Annapolis, and
before his retirement from the navy
had an enviable reputation as naval
man.
Yesterday Mrs. Robe appeared in
court attended by several of her friends.
She Is far away from those who have
known her, and her minister one old
acquaintance and two servants were all
who were with her
The case was called for 3 o'clock, and
the charming elderly woman, the plain
tiff for divorce, took the stand.
"Our troubles began shortly after our
marriage" explained Mrs. Robe. 1--WE
20 tA1 HrI,ta
bridal trip, and my husband walked
up to the register and put his name
down. The clerk had met me many
times while I and my first husband,
Charles Kendall, with whom 1 lived
twenty-seven years before his death,
had been travelling about. When my.
husband had finished writing. as 1 sup
posed, both our names the clerk turned
to me and said:
Mrs. Kendall, will you not regis
ter?'
Forgets Little Formality
''I looked at the book and to my NOR
ti1cation L saw that my husband had
register my name. That occurred Just
two weeks after our wedding.
81 spent a sleepless night about that
affair, but my husband offered no ex-
planation. He didn't care.
I'VE then went to my former home at
Grand Rapids. and my sister was stay
ing there at hotel and we were enter
tanned as her guests. One evening one
or the generals daughters asked Him to
take her to the theater, and he said
Certainly and started to order the
tickets by telephone. He ordered three,
and when suggested that four was the
number he wanted, so that my sister,
whose guests we were, could go with us,
he said he didn't see any necessity for
taking her, and therefore refused to
order another ticket. That caused me
a great deal of humiliation.
Later during our stay in Grand
Rapids I was walking with my hus-
band on the street and with my sister,
I became faint from illness and would
have fallen had my sister not caught
me. She appealed to my husband to
help escort me to seat, but he drew
himself up, and as he marched away he
called back:
Not Always Polite
1.-THE time hasn't come yet when 1
shall offer my arm to any woman on
the street.
Upon our arrival in San Diego I
was anxious to create a good impress
sion as the bride of Gen. Robe, and
when we went to church the first Sum
day morning of our arrival 1 was
pleasant to his friends and agreeable
to everyone. When we started home he
introduced me to a woman on the car,
and while was talking to her the car
reached Juniper street, where we were
to alight. The general said nothing to
me, as l had my back partly to him,
but he got up with his daughters and
had alighted from the car before II
noticed his absence.
THAT act was frightfully humiliat-
irg, but was just one of the many
things he did to show his superiority,
and the fact that he did not care
whit for me or my feelings. He was
simply a military martinette.
ION another occasion 1 became i'll
and wished to lie in bed so that might
place hot bottle between the left side
of my face and the pillow.
THE general had ensconced himself
III bed so that could not arrange my
self properly without his moving. This
he refused to do. saying that If he
moved 1t would trouble his. heart, so
that for three nights I was tcompelled
to lie OH my right side and hold the
water bottle on the left side of my face
SO that the general might retain his
comfortable position.
ITO show his habit of martial law in
the house, on one occasion a poor
bill, and as he had to wait few mo-
ments for the money he sat down on a
chair.
"'Iow dare you sit in my presence?
Get up at once
ION Christmas l received not even a
Christmas greeting although l made
gifts to all the members OF the family
and the servants. During the day the
eldest daughter attended a tennis game
at Coronado, the other daughter went
calling and the general went to ball
game. leaving me alone all day.
when finally decided to leave him
and come 70 Los Angeles he wouldn't
even shake hands with me. and said l
ought to know what was good for me-"
Rev. Mr.. Barnes of ST. Pauls cathe-
dral at San Diego, testified, as did sew
eral other witnesses, before the case was
taken under advisement.