Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-01
BIT HIS
WIFE, DAUGHTER
TESTIF|ES IN COURT
Miss Bessie Baldwin Witness
Against Father at Divorce
Hearing Today.

The alleged anthropophagical propen-
stiles of DR.. Charles E. Baldwin, dem
fist, Of 1858 Clifton avenue, whose wife,
Mrs. Bertha G. Baldwin, is seeking a
limited divorce on the ground of cruel
ty, were dilated before Vice-Chancellor
Emery today by their daughter Bessie,
a bright-looking miss of Is years, called
on cross-examination by Judge NAL
colin MacLear, counsel for the defend
ant, as the first witness of the days
session. She was followed by her
mother, who related the story of her
domestic woe. much as it had been
told by her mother, Mrs. Colanthia
Miller, yesterday.
You say" began Judge MacLear to
Miss Baldwin, that you saw your
father bite your mother. When was
that?"
I'm 1906"
Where had you been?'
I'm her ROOM"
Where was your mother?"
"on the top landing. just stepping
downstairs"
What became of your mother after
ward?"
"She went upstairs"
What did your father say when he
met your mother"
Nothing"
How long was he there on the land
ing?"
Just long enough to bite mother!"
was the quick response of the miss.
Didn't she say a word?" was the
next question.
"She didn't have a chance. 1t was all
over in a second"
did you ever see him bite her at
any other time?"
Eyes, sir, in 1906, while she was lying
sick in bed"
THAT was at night?"
Eyes, sir. They had been talking and
quarreling."
What did your mother say?"
81 think she said 'Stop!' and then he
went on out"
Miss Baldwin admitted that when
she saw her father twist her mothers
nose, another incident on which testi-
mony was taken yesterday, she was
only about 5 or 6 years old. She also
stuck to her previously told story that
on another occasion the father held the
mother over the sink in the kitchen.
Mrs. Baldwin, following her daughter
in the witness-stand, gave her testi-
mony In a bland, unhesitating sort of
way and said a great deal in a short
time, She first said that she was SO
years old, was married in 1893 and that
Bessie was their only child.
wife Tells of QuarreIs.
Getting down to the relationship be-
tween the couple, her counsel, Cecil II.
Mcmahon, asked her:
What was his treatment of your"
VERY unkind," she answered.
How many times did he hit you?"
"Oh. dozens of times. l couldn't stay
any longer with him."
did he ever drop any ashes from a
cigar on your hands"
Eyes, sir"
"Were they hot?"
Eyes. sir; as hot as could be when
dropped from a lighted cigar"
What else did he do?" her counsel
asked.
He bit mel"
when was that?"
while 1 was sick in bed IN 1906"
She added that her husband knew
very well at the time that she was
slCh, anu tiSi iepSdleu Tie epiSOuS Oh
the alleged biting on the landing of the
stairs which Miss Bessie and Mrs. Mil
Ter had already gone over.
Ibid 1t leave a mark?" Mr.. Mcmahon
pursued.
Eyes, SIR was the prompt reply, "a
imprint of the teeth on my
Then she went over other quarrels
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according to her story, her husband
once threw a fork into the gravy dish
or the table, how 1t soiled the table,
cloth, and when she went to the
sink to clean up things he fol-
lowed her. seized her by the throat and
her backward against the sink, |