The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-28
SURPRISE" LEADS TO COURT
Woman VINO Cruelty Knocked Poor
"Worse-Ha!f" to Floor May Lose
Him as Result.

| PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. ID
IF my grandfather dies shall have
| something to tell you; if he does not,
l shall not" SAID MRS Andrews.
If you have anything to tell me,
tell it now; let there be no conceal
The wife demurred; she was not
| ready 10 maze the interesting dis
closure, out the matter to which she
referred to came out later. This bit
of conversation between Mr.. and Mrs
Charles B. Andrews, whose divorce
case is on trial in Judge FraZer's
court, occurred in La Porte, Ind, for
merly their home. little while before
the death of Mrs Andrews grand
father, according to testimony given
yesterday afternoon by Andrew.
The surprise with which she was
going to greet ner hubby in the event
of the grandfather'S death was a note
for $4,000, drawn by the old man in
favor of Mrs. Andrew, according to her
statement to her husband
wi D. 1hhUiC w ulCu, anu
in his will left no provision for his
granddaughter and she, with Andrews
assistance, for he is a lawyer, at once
set about to contest the will Mrs
--ndrew insisted that in the old man S
belongings somewhere there was
note acknowledging his Indebtedness
to her to the amount of $4,000, and
search for the evidence of the OBJ
legation began. Months were spent In
the search, but to no purpose. Fin
ally among the papers of the deceased
was found a pencil memorandum CIV
ing the statement that the old man
owed Mrs. Andrew the amount given.
1t could not be proved mat the writ
ing was that of the deceased, and a
handwriting expert later declared the
memorandum a forgery, but not on the
strength of the existence of the alleg-
ed note, and the notoriety the note
incident brought to both Andrew and
MS wife was sucn as to cause her to
collapse and bring him almost to the
verge of nervous prOstration
hAuiC" was OA luc WlIucSS Slduu
all forenoon today, and most of the
morning was spent in examination of
a package OF so or more letters written
by him to his wife from Portland when
she was still in Indiana and later The
missives were all kindly and in some
cases even affectiOnate tenor, though
the husband admitted that before he
left her and Indiana for the Pacific
Coast his fOndness for her had very
materially waned. Despite this, he
said, when she came on to join him
here, he secured rooms for her and
did everything in his power to make
conditions pleasant for her
But love and harmony were out of
the question. In time Andrew. who is
not a strong man, physically, says
he came to actually fear her when she
was in one of her dominating moods.
She threw him to the floor a good
many times, the witness said.
Did she ever strike yOu?" Attor-
ney Osborn, for the defense, asked.
Repeatedly" the witness replied.
And did you ever return Tile
blowS?"
Never in my life" said Andrew.
When the couple separated finally, |
and the wife went to the Portland |
Hotel to live. Andrew said, she pack
ed up practically everything in their
apartments, event to the greater part !
of his clothing, and took all with her.
For a long time Andrew could hard
ly get from her the clothing he needed,
and even yet sne has, it was said
much of his belongings securely pack
ed in her trunks.