Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-12
HEMINWAYS TROUBLES
Former Waterbury Attorney Will
 Pay Wife s2OO a MoDib.

Justice Pound in the supreme cour of New York yesterday made an orde
 awarding to Minnie F. P. Heminwa, alimony of $200 month and coun
 sel fee of $250 pending the trial O
 her suit for separation from hel husband, Louis M. Heminway, whose
 home is in Watertown and who il very we'll known in this city. Mi Heminway is interested in the sill factory of M. Heminway and Sons O
 Watertown and Is also a shareholder in the Waterbury National bank.
 According to Mrs Heminway's affi davit, filed by her lawyer, Herman L Roth. MT Heminway is also a large stockholder in the American Brass company and owns real estate, in, cluding the Bantam Lake House in Connecticut and the Litchfield Hote in Forty-fourth street.
 The wife's petition sets forth that she married the defendant in Jersey City on December 30, 1903, and that he was extremely jealous of her. Af- ter they had been married some months he accused her of flirting with other men and finally accused her of intimacy with a certain man who Is not named.
 She also accuses her husband oi beating her and choking her. On one occasion, she says, he attacked her on the public highway at Litchfield and she was saved from severe bodily injury only by the interference of Leonard Asheim, a friend of both.
 She makes other charges of assaults on her on several occasions down to the date of their separation on April 4 last. In September, 1906, she says, Heminway tried to strangle her and burn down the house. Follow ing this she had him sent to a sani- tarium, where he remained for two months. After his release, she says, he was fairly good behaved until last April. when he attacked her in the Litchfield hotel in Forty-fourth street and accused her of infidelity. His conduct on that occasion was such that she was afraid to live with him any longer, so she left him.
 Heminway's defense is a denial that he has treated the plaintiff cruel- ly and an assertion that she is not his wife. He says that when he mar ried her she was chorus girl and that he subsequently, found that she had a husband living in Kansas. He also opposed the granting of alimony on the ground that his wife was worth several thousand dollars in cash, jewelry and other property.
 Lawyer Roth replied that his cli- ent had disposed of all her effects and was now practically destitute. Mir Roth added that she had a copy of the Kansas decree showing that she was divorced before she married Hem- inway.
 MT Asheim when seen to-day by Democrat reporter, said he knew nothing about the personal affairs of the Heminways. ''I knew Louis we'll at one time," he stated. but never learned anything about affairs be- tween him and his wife"
 During the testimony yesterday it was brought out that it was in Sep tember, 1904, that Asheim while a guest at the Bantam Lake house, at Bantam lake, knocked Heminway down and prevented him from set ting fire to the house. Heminway threatened to kill his wife and next he set the house on fire. It was then that Asheim interfered and with a well directed blow sent Heminway sprawling on the floor. But Hemin- way again set fire to the house and threatened to burn his wife alive.
 Mrs Heminway says in her affi- dayit that after the marriage in Jer- sey City they lived in the best hotels in New York and other cities, had a beautiful home In Connecticut and had retinue of servants, that she was allowed all the money she wished and that the yearly cxpendi- ture was about $10,000 or $12,0OO.
 But Mrs Heminway ayers that be- ginning two weeks after the we'd ding her husband was wont to strike her and choke her in the presence of friends and servants; that twice she was only saved from a beating by the interference of men who knocked her husband down." and that he used language that was "too terrible to repeat" and made insinu- ations that were "too terrible"
 He was placed in a sanita-ium in Connecticut. After two months he was released and tho defendant says that for year his habits were good. But in April of this year. at a hotel In this city. he attacked her again in her rooms. She also says that on one occasion. two years after the marriage, ''in his usual intoxicated condition, while we were in bed, he jumped up and fired a pistol at me twice. but owing to his drunken con- dition he missed his aim"
 Another Waterbury man, Sam" Cowan, was also mentioned in the l testimony as having at one time pro- tected Mrs Heminway from an at- tack of her husband. Wrsa