Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-20
". H. Sturievant Says His
Wife Has Left Him
In Company With A. J. Pom
SAINT Of WaierVille.
In Fact, Sturtevant Drove Them
Together to the Train.

Social ana pOlltlcal circles nave peei
uuivering and wavering between
doubt and faith since last Monday. On
the evening of that day it was reported
that Il well-known French resident had
left town suddenly, accompanied by
the wife of well-known farmer. The
Journal was early satisfied that both
persons mentioned had left the city,
but it was not until yesterday after
noon that an interview with the hus-
band of the departing woman was Sc
cured.
Calling upon w H. Sturtevant,
farmer who lives on Marston avenue,
near the Oakland line. and in response
to interrogatories that gentleman
said:
Yes. they have gone. l think it is
about time they went. 1 don't know
much about it beyond the fact that
she claimed to be tired of living here
with me and that she loves her sweet
heart, that fellow who had charge Of
the poor department last year. He was
here several days last week and
stopped here nights"
DO you mean to say that the man
you call your wife's sweetheart is Ar
t0uT j. IOIlStHl Oh w dlcl
Eyes, that is what 1 mean. They
have been together more or less all
winter and she says she is not obliged
to stay here. Why she told me that
lawyer or q judge or somebody con-
nected with the courts told her that
she was divorced from me; that she
had a right to ride with anybody, go
anywhere with anybody and do any
thing she chose to do. without regard
to how I felt about it. 1 know that
once while she was away from home
last fall and rooming on Elm street,
Mrs Ponsant entered the room and
found her husband and my wife to-
gether. When l heard of it I told her
she would break up the family, which
she had no right to do, but she said
that she did not care, that she and
POnsant loved each other and would
be together whenever they chose"
Glow old are you, Mr.. Sturtevant?"
81 am around 20 years.
How old is your wife,"
''She is about 80 now"
Glow long have you been married."
"Nine years"
"Wnen did your wife first show
signs of discontentment?"
.Oh, almost from the first month she
| came here
What was the nature of her COM
plaint?"
| Oh she said that she did not want
to dc Homework. She wanted to be in
| the town and she wanted to have
| young people around. She went and
/ came as she wanted to. often remain
/ Nd Vne
| fall she went away and staid three
months. had to hire a woman to take
her Place and while my wife lived out
in Waterville she wanted me to sup
port her there and hire a woman to do
the housework here. This I refused to
do. She worked for a while with Reny
& Marshall, short time at the Saw
| yer Publishing Co. and afterwards for
a man who takes pictures at the cor
ner, where you go to the postofiice.
| "When Ponsant came out here last
week he had a grip with him. He did
not have any trunk, nor did he have
ali Of his best clothes. She, my wife,
washed her things last week and
ironed them. She refused to do my
washing and I had to do them myself
last Monday. She packed her trunk
and helped her sweetheart pack his
| grip last Sunday. We had a regular
| Jaw, l suppose you would call it, last
| Sunday, when she told me that she
and Ponsant were going away tOgeth-
err. Ponsant was present and said thai
they might stop in Boston, possibly &c
on to New York and he did not know
but that they would go to Montreal
| They say that he is a good candymak-
er and ought to get a job most any.
where.
Il told her she was breaking up 9
family and had no right to go away II
such a manner; that she was my wife
and that it was her duty to stay here
with .nc. She said she had grea
mind to throw a flatiron at me. TO
the judge or somebody had told her, a
have said before that she had ;
right to go wherever and with whom
ever she pleased"
That Judge is apparently very con
venient, but do you believe that any per
son connected with the court ever toll
her any such thing?''
"WelI, of course I don't know. 1t dom
seem as though they would say snc
things, those fellows that have the lay
dIldirS III tnelr Hdn0S. But you see S1
had her tantrums before she was mar
ried and we have had them ever since
She was Lillian Herrick before we wer
married. I guess she had several fellow
before the time she married me. She ha
had two at time that 1 know of since
They would come out here and she woul'
go to the door and cry when I forbad
her going OUT
"Have you any children. Mr.. Sturte
vant?"
Eyes, we have one little daughter. sew
en- years old the second day OF thi
month. Her name is Sortoris That is
Spanish name"
Were you at home when they left here
your wife and Ponsant?"
Yes, I was here at home. They sal
they wanted to take the afternoon trai
for Boston and as I had to go to the cit
anyway I told them that I would driv
them to the station. Ponsant himsel
regulated the time of starting and ha
it fixed that we reach the station but
very few minutes before the train cam
: in"
. '"Then you drove them to the station?
sfyaS xye got fbaro i,,ct 4,