Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-14
THE HENDERSONS
Hiring Family Jars in Court To-day
 in Their Divorce Case.


 The divorce suit of Evelyn Ross Hepderson against William s. Hend- srson, a foreman for the Waterbury Clock company, was begun in the su- perior court yesterday afternoon at s:3O o'clock before Judge Shumway. Mrs Henderson's counsel are Attor- neys Monagan and Carmody and Mr ' Henderson's is Attorney Kennedy. Mrs Henderson alleges that her hus- band has real estate amounting to S3,0OO, the house, No 75 Wood street, and she asks one-third of that as ali- mony. She alleges intolera6le cruelty and habitual intemperance during the past ten years.
 From the amended bill of speciflca- tions it would seem that the 18th of the month was very unlucky ono for the HendersOns for on that date the plaintiff sets forth that all the al legged acts of cruelty, excepting one, took place. The exception Is NOyen- Der IS, 1895, on which date she alleges that her husband beat her with his fists. On December 1J, 1898, she claims he also beat her with his fists. On October 15, 1900, he thre9tened to shoot her with a revolver and also beat her with his fists. On April 15. 1905, he again beat her with his fists and on May 15, same year, he struck her with a baseball bat and on yari- ous other days in 1904 aud 1905 he ordered her from the house, threaten ed to kill her with poison, with reyol- vers and finally drove her out of the house on May 10, 1905.
 Mrs Hendei son testified that her age is B. She was married in Trinity church on February g. 1892, and four children have been born to her. They are William, 13; Jeanette, II; Leslie, 9 and Roland, [. She knew Henderson year before they were married. New Haven was the first stage of their wedding tour and the first night of their married life Mrs Henderson testified that her husband was so in toxicated that he did not know where he was and that during the entire wedding trip of two weeks he was ill- tOxicated almost all the time. One night during the first week at home, Archie Bannatyne, friend, she said, brought her husband home so intoxi- cated that he was unable to stand. He spent his evenings in the saloons until he was put out and his Sundays he spent in drug stores.
 A few months before the birth of their eldest child, Mrs Henderson wes struck by her husband for defending her dog and few weeks after the a revolver, remarking that both shl and the baby had lived long enough. On another occasion he threatened her with revolvers and she gave the weapons to her father. Later he told her he would pour red hot lead into her ear, a Ia Hamlet's uncle, and the neighbors would never know what had killed her.
 One day she found herself unable to stand this treatment any longer and she went to servants agency to get work. To her surprise she found her husband there before her. He told her to get home and she answered that she would if he would treat her decently. He gave her $l0 but when he got home he took 1t from her.
 Every night almost he came home drunk" said Mrs Henderson. "and he would not be able to have breakfast in the morning. He never went to the shop without taking bottle of whiskey, rum or wine, with him. His appetite for drink was such that he could never keep any stimulants ill the house."
 One Sunday he was out all day At noon Mrs Henderson sent one of the boys to the drug store where he was accustomed to stay to ask him to come to dinner. He sent word back that he would go when he felt lika It. Thereupon Mrs Henderson went out and when she got home her hux band beat her. She was sure it was poison he threatened her with and that the kind was strychnine because she saw the name on the bottle. At length he put her out altogether and she found refuge with Mrs Pills bury and got work in the plant of the Waterbury Manufacturing company. There she stayed until last September when she went to work for the Wa terbury Buckle company by whom she is now employed.
 While under examination by her counsel Mrs Henderson did not hesi. tate a moment for answers, but the moment Attorney Kennedy began to cross examine her she seemed to have entirely lost her memory. She hesi- tated and lost considerable time m thinking. AIr Kennedy brought out that she did not call to see her child ren once she left home and that one of the boys visited her few times. Her daughter did not see her. Mir Kennedy asked her to name any rI-- tIcular day her husband struck her or threatened her and after considerable hesitation. during which the utmost stiffness and wonder prevailed. she said: "1s94 and 1S9S." This answer was far from satisfactory. it being too indefinite.
 Leslie. A son of the coptendipc