The Washington times., 1906-01-28
KICKED HIS Sims
TO MAKE HIM WASH
Lightweight Hubby Freed
From Heavyweight Wife.
GOT BUSY AT TU B
Her Deep Intellect Kept Her From
Housework, So Bennie Did
the Work.

BOSTON. Jan 27-Separated from a
xrjre Who as he testified had compelled
him 10 scrub the floor. do the washing.
clean the kitchen and all other house
hold duties. and who had temper that
was liable TO go off like 'keg of pow
der" benjamin. P. Walker, a diminutive
billiard hall proprietor of Howard street,
heard his petition for a decree on the
grounds OF cruel and abusive treatment
GRANTED yesterday by Judge Aiken With
q relief that was at once apparent in his
features.
Il was The tale of mismsted couple
that ne unfoldcd TO the court-the stories
of his abuse by his wife being fully cor
roborated by number OF Witnesses
and the decree was granted Without any
evidence submitted in rebuttal, though
his wife was prepared to contest the
suit. Walker who weighs but rs pounds
looked like p mere pismy in the pres
enee of his wife, who weighs 2o0 pounds,
and Is of extremely robust appearance
Beginning of End.
Walker testified that they were mar
ried in 1895 and that for time their
married life was all he expected II was
some time after their union that the
erlieIties which led TO his application for
a divorce began. Ffe stated that he kept
a number of horses and that his wife
frequently took them out for a drive
on one of these occasions she took TWO
of his spirited steeds and the result was
A runaway that resulted seriously TOT
Mrs. Walker, for she was thrown out
and badly injured, necessitating her re-
moval 10 a hospital Upon her return
he upbraided her for using these horses
and she threw pan at his head went
upstairs and refused 10 do any more
work.
lie followed her upstairs aud at'eihp'-
cd TO make peace with her but ne sa'u
she kicked him on the shins WIN her
new pointed toe shoes. making ms si.'"9
bleed A picture Of his shins taken al'ei
this assault was introduced as evidence
and Walker testified that he hau ooS"
,rcnfsd nv p physiclan for this injury
Prom mat tine his wife refused to 90
any homework. and when he remoh-
STATED with her she informed him that
a-,-bodv could do housework' and that
me- nigh crdcr Of intellect would not
ne~roit her to perform such menial labor.
He was Obliged 10 clean the house ana
do All the washing. because. IL ne uiu
not do il. il would not be done.
Dogs on His Bed.
Another method. he testified. his Wfie
,,a5 of showing her dislike for him was
90 turn their three dogs into MS rooih9
after nc left for work and leave theH
there all day. They would sleap cl ms
he'd and when they contracted tne
mango he was Obliged 10 burn all his
bedclothinC. M,
Naming six correspondents IN ms ioVi'
John q. Stonemetz asked for a decree
on The ground Of cruel and abusive
trcatmen. and adultery.
You can't get anything TO cat mere
the meat smells and there's too many
Iyisl1 - were the reasons assigned pS
Mrs Matilda Davis for refusing TO live
in Boston. while her husband aVerred'
.'N-uroiuston' too slow; Boston Tor
mine. Their differences of opinion as
To the merits of each city as a perIaa~
nent residence were aired when the hus-
ea,d william J. Davis. applied Tor 4
decree on tie ground of desertion.
Mrs. Nettie M. Eastman was granted
= decree nisi from Frederick +. East
man for a statutory offense. and was
also given the custody Of their minor
child and 81 week alimony The hoei
of Lillian b. Bassett against her nus
hand. William r.. was taken under al
visement, as was the case OF Bernard
scnwartz. against Eleanor r.. bO-h libelc
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