The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
CHARGES HUSBAND
WITH BRUT TAL|7Y.
Mrs. Adeline Kruckeberg
Tells Of Abuse and Asks
That She Be Freed
ANNOYED

OAKLAND, Sept 25.-Mrs- Adeline
Kruckeberg has decided to shake OF
the shackles that have bound her Tor
twenty-six years to Frank K krucke-
berg. She filed suit for divorce today,
charging him with extreme cruelty
"You wear corsets that cost $500,
that your beautiful form may be adj
mired by the boarders," Kruckeberg
is alleged to have said within the hear
ing of the boarders, when the aggrieVed
woman was trying to support the fam
lily by conducting lodging house In
Alameda. But that was small part
of the cruelty inflicted upon her, ac-
eording to the divorce complaint.
Among other things it is alleged that
Kruekeberg often went on spree for
three weeks at time, and when In his
cups was so abusive to his wife's
boarders that he drove them from the
premises His fayorite way of annoy
ing these boarders, it is alleged, was
to go home drunk and hammer on their
doors with his fists.
Five years ago, the complaint re-
cites, Kruckeberg went to his wife's
room and turned on the gas and she
was almost aspl,yxiated when rescued
by neighbers; and the husband told
every one who called that she had
opened the vent in an attempt to kill
him. In May of this year. while she
was bending over a washtub, her face
became flushed from her exertions, she
says, and her husband, entering the
room suddenly, accused her of being
drunk and attacked her with a heavy
shoe. She fled to neighbors. Another
time, she says, he kicked her out of
bed with the remark. You love other
men better than you do me-
The litigants were married at st.
Louis. Mo-, February 7, 1880, and have
| one son, Edward, who is now 25 years
of age.
HE accused me of going with every
Tom, Dick and Harry thattI meet
was the plaintive wall of Mrs. Lena
Dema, who wishes to resume her
maiden name of Hansen and be eternally-
| separated from August Dema, whom
she accuses her Of treating her cruelty.
She also wants the custody of their
minor<child
1t is the wifes claim that her hus-
band got drunk so often that she can
not remember the number of the oc-
casions. When drinking he was
abusive, she says, and once he beat
her till she was almost insane. He
fired a shotgun at her and their child,
she declares, and she fled in terror to
her sister with the little one. At an
other time he forced the child to get
out of bed and say his prayers, and
while the little one was on his knees
praying, so she alleges, he roughly
drew the boys head back and was
about to draw the keen edge of a
butcher knife over the chiid's tender
meek when the mother rushed into
the room. Mrs. DeTna says she pleaded
/ with her husband for four or five
hours before she could persuade him
| to desist.
! The unusual devotion of Hattie F..
Morser for her husband, Welton Nor
ser, was the cause of q divorce suit
that was filed today by the latter who
is well known in Alameda as con-
tractor.
you are the apple of my eye; I will
not allow any monkey to take my apple
from me. Some monkey has already
| taken your heart from me-"
That was enough for Morser, who
says that is the way his wife chided
him. Mrs. Morser not only rebuked
him in excited language, he says. but
sometimes came to him as he lay in
he'd and ground his nose with her fists
She also accused him of being a
chaser"
He wants to be rid of the woman
he took unto himself in 1882 and the
custody of the two minor children.