The San Francisco call., 1906-10-02
William H. Talbot Demands Divorce,
on the Ground of Cruelty.
Ayers That His Wife
Made Life Most
Miserable.

BY the filing of a complaint for
divorce yesterday, William H Talbot,
the millionaire lumber man. dashed the
hopes of his friends that the differences
that existed between his wife and him
self had been settled
II was the ardent wish of the friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Talbot that they would
reconcile their differences and the fact
that Mrs. Talbot had rented her coun-
try place at Redwood City to w. J.
D1ngee was taken as good evidence
that the old affection had been re-
stored. The leasing OF the country
nome, however, seems to be one of
the reasons why Talbot seeks a di-
vorce. He asserts that Mrs. Talbot has
treated him cruelty and has brought
him into many humiliating positions
before strangers" one of the most
humiliating of these situations being
attendant upon the leasing of the place
to stranger" without his knowledge,
Tor when he went there lIe found the
mouse in the possession of this
Stranger"
SAYS WIFE CALLED HIM NAMES.
Annie d. Talbot. the defendant, and
William H. Talbot were married in
June, 1888. Talbot, in his complaint
which is voluminous, does not state
the causes that led to his being called
a fool. nor does he tell why the lady
called him "cowardly cur" but that
she did he ayers. And then again he
says that once in the merry month of
June, 1905, before all the servants and
the three children, she said to him:
You haven't any sense
Again in the same year, but in the
month of April, the defendant says
that in mild and reassuring way
ne asked for a certain package he
expected to receive, when his wife
opened the door of her room and re-
gardless of the presence of the SER
wants and the three children called out
in loud voice:
What in the devil do you blame me
for? I have not seen the package"
Talbot further AYERS that not con-
tent with wounding his feelings she
wounded the heads of her offspring,
and one time, according to the com
plant. 1ammed the head of her son
Eric against some furniture Talbot
says he went to the rescue, whereupon
she seized the other son, Willie, choked
him and then knocked him down. Tall
bot asserts that again he went to the
rescue and for his gallantry was struck
in the face and called a coward" a
fool" "blackguard" and other
names
SAYS SHE Is JEALOUS.
Mrs Talbot. according to testimony
of the plaintiff, has a jealous nature
and. it is asserted, upbraided her
daughter Vera for kissing her father.
and because he persisted in caring for
his children and bestowing affection on
them she forbade the servants from
entering and taking care of his rooms.
Not content with that he says she took
the furniture out of his apartment and
locked the door, so that in his own
house he had nowhere to lay his head.
Talbot further alleges in his complaint
that it was one of his wifes fads to
fire pistol when they were all gath
cred on the porch of the Redwood house
and. showing the pistol to the children
she would tell them that she intended to
kill their father with the weapon. One
time she did try TO kill him, he AYERS
and says that had it not been for his
prompt action he would have been shot
Continuing, he alleges that one time