Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-14
MRS RUL0FS0N SAYS CHARGES
 ARE LIES
Causes Arrest of Husband Who Is Said to Have Stabbed Her. and Maintains She Is Innocent of Wrongdoing.

| yesterday WlLl assault Wlln uedQly weapon in Justice Hogan's court at Lowell. He was released on bonds of | s25 which were furnished to appear befort thatbefore that court on Mon day next to answer to the charge placed against him by his wife. 1 In the meantime, Rulofson Is spend | ing his time about the saloons of Lowell and Johnson addition celebra- l ting his alleged troubles with a grand | spree. He was too much intoxicated | yesterday to make an intelligent statement, but sticks to his first as. sertion that his wife has been inti- mate with another. and that this is | the cause of his attack.
 Rulofson also claims that he did not wound his wife with a candle stick; but that he struck at the door | iamb in his anger and disgust at her alleged actions this giving rise to the story that she was wounded. Rulofson is not borne out in his statements by those of his wife, who | is quartered at the Lowell hotel with her little boy.
 The woman's story puts an entirely different phase on the recent trouble in the Rulofson home and tends to sbcw that she has been the victim of | drunken jealousy, rather than being l The Review man found Mrs. Rulof- | son in a poorly furnished room at the Lowell Hotel yesterday afternoon. When pressed for her side of the story she at first declined to talk, but when informed what her husband had circulated as a cause for his actions, the little woman broke down and l cried like child.
 l While not a woman of many years, Mrs. Rulofson's appearance bears out her statements that she is gradually being driven to the grave by the abuses heaped upon her by her hus- band. A slight tinge of premature gray has found it's way into the hair of the unfortunate woman and she appears to be laboring under a severe mental strain.
 With but 8 between herself and starvation with which to provide for 1 herself and her poorly clad little boy, the plucky little woman talks of go- 1 ing out to work to earn her daily l bread and get such treatment as should be accorded to her as a woman.
 Does he say that?" asked the wom- an when told of Rulofson's charges of | her infidelity. Then she fell upon her | face on the bed in the dirty little room and sobbed as though her heart would break
 l T can only say that I want to deny | that in its every word" said she when she and sufficiently recovered from | the shock of the first news of her hus- bands relation of the affair. This is not the first time that my husband has assaulted me. He has threatened my life almost from the l first of our married relations. His whole aim seems to be to see how badly he can use me He drinks up nearly every cent he makes and have but little with which to take care of our house. I would never complain Of this were it not for his treatment of me. l simply cannot stand it any longer.
 "As to his saying that I was alone l with strange man at the time he l stabbed me in the hip with a candle stick. that is all as false as the rest. I was with my little boy here, who has been sick with the measles When I heard him coming I simply turned over on my side 10 see why he was coming home at that time when he entered and with string of tuse and stabbed me.
 "The wound which he gave me is fully an inch and a haf deep as can be verified by the doctor who at tended me.
 'As to having taken his pay check i that is true in part. There was a l Phnal for con iy, opl | that but gave it back to him when he demanded 1t. Al have got is s5 | of which he did not know. I suppose l will have to go to work to get food for myself and boy as soon as I am able to get out of here.
 ''Neighbors at the Johnson addition have offered me home for myself | ard child, and lam now waiting for darkness so that I can get there with safety.
 | Tt seems to be a mania with my husband to accuse me of infidelity. have seen him stand in the middle of the floor for hours at a time convers ing with an imaginary being. At other times I have seen him lay in waiting with a stick of fire wood, sw caring vengeance on some man he seemed to expect to come in at the dcor.
 "Only three weeks ago, when he wa son his last pay day spree, he stabbed me with his candlestick in the breast and I have the scar of the wound there now. I did not report that affair because I was afraid of him.
 Tt is not long ago that he stood over me while I was in he'd and held the point of butcher knife at my breast, and every time I would try to rise he would push me back with the point of the knife.
 My arms and body show the marks of heating he gave me last month. Nnd that is not all. He has kept that up nearly all the tine.
 "As for my being with ancthe. man. II have no ac1uail-anees among the