Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-10
MARITAL TROUBLES
RELATED IN COURT
MRS. CATHERINE LoREE TELLS
OF ALLEGED CRUELTY
Couple, After Seventeen Years OF
Welded Life, Appear in Divorce
Suit and Wife Tells
Story

After a married life of seventeen year
Mrs. Catherine Loree yesterday related
her troubles yesterday in Judge w. +.
James department of the superior court
and when court adjourned she had not
finished her story of alleged ll-treat-
ment and will continue the recital today.
Mrs. Loree is seeking a divorce from
James Loree, and the tribulations IN
their family life, according to her state
ments, began a number of years ago.
The couple were married in Michigan In
1890 and came to Los Angeles about f1ve
years later. 1t was while on visit to
her parents in her old home that the
first trouble began, she said. The Visit
occurred In 1900, and while there her hus-
band Joined her, after a separation of
some months. Mrs. Loree said she was
i'll at the time and when her husband
made his appearance he kissed every
other person in the room before greeting
her.
That same night she said, he stayed
at his brothers home until late hour,
and the next day went to Detroit, re-
turning with tales of visits to variety
shows, for which she told him he should
be ashamed of himself.
"He told me he had purchased re-
turn ticket for me in Los Angeles" she
said, 'but had given it to a woman he
met on the train. We stayed at the old
home for twelve days and he went to the
postoffice every day, evidently expecting
mail which knew nothing about"
Begged on Knees to Return
She begged him, she said, on her knees,
to take her back 20 Los Angeles with
him. but he refused.
When spring came and following his
return to the west, she said she received
long, loving letters every week until
June, when the letters ceased for almost
month. She became fearful that some
misfortune had occurred and wrote to
the superintendent of the street railway
by which her husband was employed. In
many of his letters. she declared, her
husband had said he was ILL.,. but the
superintendent wrote that he was at
work and never looked better
Then a letter arrived from the effects
of which she said she believed she be-
came insane. On July 25, she said, she
received a letter from her husband
which read:
Kate, you are in Michigan with your
people. You are far better off than In
Los Angeles. have gone to the devil
with women. Stay where you are
''I got up from my bed and barefooted
and wearing only by night clothing" She
said; "I walked five miles to my sisters s
home and begged for money to take me
back to Los Angeles. l did not get 1t
and went to my husbands mother and
told her about tine letter. His mother
told me she had received a letter from
her son in which he made charges against
me and said if I went back to Los An
geles he would shoot himself"
Mother-in-Law Gives Her Money
Her mother-in-law and brother, she
said, supplied her with funds and she re-
turned. She pleaded with her husband,
she declared, not to break up her home
but he said she was always trying to
create dissension. At one time, Mrs.
Loree said her husband dragged her
from bed after they had become engaged
in quarrel.
HE threw me down against hall
seat, - she saio, '.and opening opening
the door pulled me out. He pushed me
against railing and my foot came in
contract with a large palm, which tore
the flesh. A man came and dragged him
away and TOOK me into the house.
In a moment, she said, her husband
came IN and pursued her rescuer about
the house with a large knife. the strang-
er calling to her to notify the neighbors
He came for me with the knife" said
the witness, land l told him to cut my
throat and we would both be out OF our
misery. I'll be dead and you will hang. ="
He threw the knife away, said the wo-
man, and later telephoned the police sta
ton that his wife was trying to kill him.
The police came and he told them, she
said, something that she could not be-
cause of her nervous condition, remember