The San Francisco call., 1908-03-05
RANBURY AND Wife
LASH EACH OTHER
Witnesses Say Woman Sat on
Mems Laps and Paraded
In Nightie
She Declares Husband Kicked
Her From Bed and Pushed
Her Into Bay

More spicy testimony was brought
out in the divorce case of David Han
bury against Mrs Eleanor Marie Han
bury yesterday, and when Judge Hunt
adjourned court at $3.50 o'clock, with
each side resting after an even break
in the testimony, both Hanbury and
his wife had suffered severely from the
statements of each other and of the
witnesses they called.
After George Lang, a bar keeper of
Vallejo had testified in the morning
that he had seen Mrs. Hanbury seated
on a mans lap in the Leader saloon
in Vallejo. and Pauline Manzard, cham
bermaid at the Grand hotel, told of
two men who had entered her room
there. Mrs. Hanbury went on the
stand herself in the afternoon. Her
husband had also testified in the morn
ing that the two endearing letters ad-
dressed to Bradley Sargent. the Berke-
ley student, brought in evidence Tues
day. were in his wife's handwriting.
Mrs. Hanbury testified that it was
her husbands habit to pinch her when
ever he approached her; she told the
court he would seize her by the wrists
and squeeze them SO tightly that they
would be weak for days afterward.
On one occasion. Mrs. Hanbury said.
her husband pushed her off a float into
rowboat moored near by and pull
herself out of the water, while her hus-
band stood by and laughed at her
efforts.
Mrs. Hanbury also asserted that Han
bury burned her wrists with the lighted
end of cigarettes when she would put
her arms about his neck. She testified
further that her husband on various
occasions referred feelingly to her as
a t'liar Hind ch dauil
fool and fiend." She said he drank con-
stantly. and when under the influence
of liquor would kick her out of bed.
A sensation was caused when George
Clarken of Vallejo, whose name was
mentioned yesterday by attorneys. rose
to his feet, his voice quivering in ex-
citement. and said he wanted to make
a statement to set himself right.
You are not a witness said Judge
Hunt. Unless one of the attorneys
chooses to call you to the stand 1
can't hear what you have to say.
You can't" began Clarken, bel
ligerently.
When neither Attorney Fickert nor
Attorney Young would consent to call
him, however, he became silent again.
Pauline Manzard, the chambermaid. told
that she had heard a strange man
laughing in Mrs. Hanbury's room. and
stayed in the room for an hour. She
had seen Mrs. Hanbury walk around
attired only in nightrobes when bell
boys and walters at the hotel were
answering her rings.
E. T. McGreevy, another morning wit
ness, told of the visit of a man called
Gregg to Mrs. Hanbury at the ST.
Vincent hotel in Vallejo. who after
ward turned out to be Sargent
Hanbury himself in broad English
accent told part of the history of his
life. He was 43, he said; he had been
an arctic explorer for II years, an
officer in the Boer war and had written
book, Sporting Travels in the North
lands of Canada" He denied having
set detectives to shadow his wife.
Dispositions from Maggie Smith, a
waitress of Vallejo, who said she had
seen Hanbury drunk several times, and
one from DR.. Bernard ]. Klotz, who
said he had attended Mrs. Hanbury
once when she was sick, were sub
mitted. The case will be continued at
10 o'clock this morning