The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-16
WIFE TREATED
HIM CRUELTY
]. E. Roberts Seeks Relief From
a Wife Who Is Jealous and
Who Shows II.

After being stabbed with a pair o.
scissors, slammed over the head with
a fence picket bit in the shoulder, hit
in the eye with a slipper, high heeled
| slapped, slammed and otherwise man
handled, John E. Roberts of Gandall
Lane thinks he has had enough of the
wifely attentions of Maria Isabella
Roberts and yesterday began suit for
| a divorce. The various actions of his
| wife complained about by the libellant
| are due, he states in his libel, to her
| jealousy of him. A counter demon
stration, when he found a number of
kodak pictures of some of the Elleford
actors concealed among his wife's
possessions, also provoked a row in
which, as usual, Roberts got much
the worst of it.
The marriage sought to be dissolved
took place in Honolulu four years ago,
in February. 1903. A year later the
wife developed symptoms of jealousy
and persisted in accusing the libellant
of paying undue attentions to other
women, in one of the accusing scenes
emphasizing her remarks by assault
ing him with a pair of shears.
Four months later the picket Incl
dent occurred, the libellant having con-
Guided that he would pack his trunk
and leave and getting a policeman to
help him in the moving. Notwith-
standing the presence of the officer of
the law the libellee produced a picket
and broke it over his head. After
some weeks of living apart the quarrel
was patched up, the lbellee informing
her husband that a visit of the stork
to the household was an event which
might be expected before long. This
information appears to have been mis-
leading, however, for seven or eight
months later, in June, 1906, the libel
recites another appeal to arms on the
part Of the wife, again in the presence
of a police officer the libelIant had
summoned to his aid. This was the
occasion when the libeIlant was bitten
in the shoulder.
A truce was again patched up and
life was fairly tranquil until August
7 last, when bunch of kodak pictures
leford company of players was found
by the husband, hidden and concealed
in one of the bureau drawers. These
he threw away, and another row de-
veloped, in the course of which the
wife kicked the libellant a few times,
struck him in the face and then furth-
er revenged herself by tearing up two
portraits of the libellant's
parents.
This was more than the libellant |
could stand, and he left the house for
good, returning on August 9, however, |
for his clothes. just in time to receive |
another humping in the presence of |
a. waiting hackman and a friend.
Wherefore relief in the shape Of g.
divorce is asked for.
TO QUIET TITLE.
An action to quiet title to certain |
land located on Adams Lane was in
stituted yesterday in Judge De Bolts
court by Gustave Rose and Helene
Kruger VS.. Rosina Rose, Bertha Rum
bic and Maud K. Chapman. The plain
lifts claim that they are owners in
fee simple of the land in question but
that the defendants assert claims to
the property adversely to them. They
ask for a writ of possession, costs and
such further relief as may seem meet
% the court.
COURT NOTES.
The writ of execution secured by
Levers & Cooke against the River Mill
Company for the sum of s369.11, was
yesterday by High Sheriff
Henry fully satisfied.
The matter of the Territory against
Miguel may be heard this
before the Supreme Court on
/ motion to advance the appeal on the
.alendar. This appeal is from the Cir
.uit Court, where Miguel was convict
d of selling liquor without license
md fined. the case being a test of
he new liquor law
AFTER CAPTAIN REID.
An information was filed yesterday
n the Federal Court against Captain
Reid, of the British steamer Valdivia,
rom which a Chinese cook escaped on
Ter last trip to this city. 1t is ex-
,ected that the Valdivia's captain will
ppear in court this morning and plead
.uiIty to violating the immigration
avs, in which case he will probably
scape with the minimum fine. If he
ries to fight the case, a heavier fine
nay be expected in case of convic-
ion.
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