The San Francisco call., 1906-09-20
BANKER SAYS WIFI {
WAS TOO GAY.
Harry Hanley Accuses Her
of Frequent Carousals
With Wenceslao Loaiza


One of the most sensational cross
complaints ever entered In a divorce
suit in this city was made known yes
terday when Harry G. Hanley, paying
teller of the Wells Fargo and Nevada
National Bank, prayed the court to
grant him an interlocutory decree of
divorce from his wife. Hanley AYERS
that his spouse has been untrue to him
and victim of drink, and mentions
Wenceslao Lonixa, the wealthy young
commission merchant, as the cause Of
the trouble. Last June Mrs. Hanley ap-
piled to the court for an order COM
peiifng her husband to keep intact the
community property. At that time she
asked nm allowance and swOre that her
spouse abused her while drunk and that
she could not live with him. Now
comes Hanley with his bitter cross
complaint which Is likely to keep the
gossiping tongues wagging for months
1t was a pitiful tale of marital un-
happiness that was recited in the COM
plant for divorce filed on June 10 by
Mrs Louise Morrell Hanley against her
husband. 1t was so pitiful in fact that
1t appealed to the sympathetic nature
of Judge Graham. who promptly grant
ed her request for an order restraining
her husband from disposing of his
property or in any way, other than
through the court, of thwarting the
fair plaintiff in her attempt to get what
seemed to be her just share of the
Hanley community interests
The wife supplemented her formal ac-
cusations of cruelty and intoxication
with specific incidents when her hus-
band. while alleged to be under the
influence of liquor, ill-treated her in
such manner that she was finally
forced TO seek parental protection at
the home of her mother. Hanley was
pictured in the wife's complaint as
man of violent temper, of neglectful
habits and of other traits of which his
friends. who read the surprising news
OF his wifes action, were loath to be-
lieye him guilty.
HOLDS I.OAIZA RESPONSIBLE.
But a sadder story of the affairs Of
the married life of the Hanleys is told
IN the answer and cross-complaint of
the husband, which was filed yester-
day afternoon by his attorneys, Nowlin
q Fassett. general denial to the
charges of his wife are followed by a.
series of allegations, which if even
tually proved will forever blast the
reputation of Mrs. Hanley and pos
sibly prove a source of serious trouble
IN the family of Wenceslao Loaiza. a
son of the late well-known Mexican
merchant, w. sLoaiza.
Loaiza is Charged with being the
cause of much OF the unhappiness in
Harry Hanley's family. He is openly
accused of being responsible for the al
leged frequent intoxicated condition of
Mrs. Hanley. and dates are mentioned
when 1t is alleged that Loaiza. who
was a friend OF Hanley. is supposed to
have ruthlessly destroyed the con-
nQence the husband reposed in him and
created an abyss between Hanley and
MS Wife that could never be bridged.
Date after date and place after place
are mentioned in the husbands Bit
ter arraignment OF his wife in support
or his charges of her clandestine meet
ings with Loaiza.
FINDS A TELLTALE SPOON.
In reciting the many pangs of woe
ne experienced from December, 1901,
until the same month in 1905 during
which period his wife is alleged to
nave been frequently intoxicated and
on more than one occasion to have re-
manned out until unseemly hours, often
not returning to their home until the
Following day. the husband tells Of
several instances when she was In the
company of other men and women and
so stupefed by drink that she was un-
able to give the proper motherly care
to their children or to the ordinary
duties of the household.
On one occasion. December 20, 1906,
the husband charges that he returned
home at 6:15 p. m. and met in the
hallway of his home Louie Phelps
said Phelps" the cross-complaint
reads. apologized for his presence at
that time in defendants home. On en-
tering the house this defendant found
plaintiff lying on the bed in their bed
room and found her sealskin coat on
the floor and beside said coat was a