Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-18
WIFE 4 VIRAGO
IS HIS CLAIM
HUSBAND RELATES TALE OF
MARITAL WOE
Sixteen Years OF Persecution, DUR
ing Which He Alleges All
Manner of Unwifely
Actions

After sixteen years of married life,
filed with incidents melodramatic. and
which if staged at the Grand would
put to shame all the popular "shock-
ers' that ever held the boards there,
r. w. Bailey brought his troubles be-
fore Judge Trask of the superior court
yesterday. Judge Trask refused to
grant the interlocutory decree of di-
vorCe pending the Introduction of fur
ther evidence and possibly the placing
on the stand of the defendant, Minnie G.
Bailey.
Bailey's experience with his wife be-
gan on the eve of their marriage, No
vember 20, 1SS9 in La Crosse, Wis. In
~ that time the marriage was not
consummated, according to the testi-
mony of Bailey, Instead, the wife re-
sorted to petty acts which Bailey
claimed annoyed him extremely.
At intervals of one month these an
noyance and petty acts occurred, ac-
cording to Bailey, who said that they
approached grand climax last Febru-
ary, when Mrs. Bailey pursued her hus-
band with an ak, and the following
Sunday she gave vent to her wrath
publicly in a church in a congregation
of several hundred persons.
Bailey, soon after he married the
woman, commenced to lose much sleep.
he told the court yesterday. This he
said, was due to Mrs. Bailey's fondness
for screaming in the middle of the
night and pulling Bailey's h~ir, ac-
companied by loud and unusual talk
| ing. JOB was a back number when it
came to an exhibition of patience"
said Bailey. Finally the plaintiff was
! obliged to occupy a bedroom by him
self, while Mrs. Bailey occupied a room
in another part of the house.
In March, 1901, during one of her al
legged monthly attacks upon her hus-
band, Mrs. Bailey seized a bottle of ink
and hurled it with great violence
against the haggard features of Bailey.
| Following that attack she struck him
on the head with a golf club, and she
| followed this up with an attack with
an umbrella. which was closely fol-
lowed by stiff right with a cane, and
! finally she twirled a stove litter with
unerring aim at Bailey. All of these
implements of warfare were itemized in
the complaint.
His Own Chambermaid
Close upon the heels of this siege of
attacks Mrs. Bailey decided that her
husband could be his own chamber
maid, and subsequently the more siren
uous of household duties We're left to
| Bailey. From 1902 through 1903 and
until Nay, 1904 Bailey said he was the
chambermaid of the Bailey residence.
One year before Bailey's occupation
as chambermaid reached a close. Mrs.
Bailey, according to the testimony of
the plaintiff, charged on Bailey with
butcher knife, tore off his necktie
IrI, L. Il.
in a mi;-up that is beyond description.
During September, October and No
Vember of 1904 Mrs. Bailey is said to
have tried another tack and threatened
to commit suicide. On several occasions
she pretended she was i'll, the result of
having swallowed poison. incidentally,
the complaint states Mrs. Bailey re-
marked that she would submit to ply
sician's treatment provided Bailey
would obey Mrs. Bailey in all matters
thereafter
In June, 1904, Bailey sustained in
juries in an accident that compelled
him to remain in a hospital for several
days. While in the hospital Mrs. Bailey
visited him several times and "in-
formed" him his accident was due
wholly to the fact that he refused to
obey her in all matters and that it was
intended as a punishment.
HeIuge on street cars
In July, 1904 shortly after Bailey
left the hospital, he claims Mrs. Bailey
becams so volatile that he was obliged
to spend his days i'm riding the street
cars IL order to n old her wrath. When
he ran out of car fare he would walk
the streets until late at night rather
than spend his evenings at home, devils
ing means to avoid the alleged spon-
tame us attacks Of Mrs. Bailey.
In October, 1904, during that part OF
the month which preceded the belcose
stages Of Mrs. Bailey Bailey and his
, Wife went for a stroll. The complaint
says that the woman suddenly slapped
him in the face publicly.
What happened between October, 1904
and February. 1906. is not mentioned in
the complaint. In the latter month the
attack on his character was made in the
church in the midst of several hundred
church members. Mrs. Bailey at thai
time, states the complaint, exerted all
{ her vocal powers and created pande.
! monlum in the Sabbath assembly
: What will be done with the case Is
: not known Judge Trask asked severa
: pertinent questions of the Witness yes
tterday and after listening to the
} strange testimony of both Bailey ant
l his father he continued the case pend
| Ing the Introduction OF further testi
mony. Judge Trask suggested that ~
effort be made 10 find Mrs. Bailey anC
hear her side Of the story.
&~$-
Pa Time the seythe should drop
lie used when times were slower,
And at some store should stop
Ana get patent mower.
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