The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-02-01

udAys 4 was nOGn1ng DtlL servant III
the house." she also accuses defen.
dant of making fun Of her looks while
she was pregnant. That summer they
visited his parents at Plattville, wis.
and from there plaintiff went TO Chi
cago to visit, defendant returning
home, and plaintiff says that defen-
dant told her while in Chicago to pro-
cure whatever she needed for herself
and for the baby and she testifies that
! she purchased beautiful little outfit
/ for the baby, the bin for which was
| Sill, and says that on her return de-
| PENDANTS attitude towards her had
changed entirely from what il was al
| Plattville." "Hfs manner was some
thing couldn't describe. He sneered
at everything / did and everything ]
was +" When I showed him the
baby clothes he walked up and
down the room white ss a ghost with
almost a terrible expression on his
face and he said I would like to know
what these are going to cost / told
him. Then he flew into a, terrible rage.
asked me IL / thought he was a mil
lionaire," and she swears that he COM
PEELED her to send these baby clothes
back and that her father gave her
$50 after that for the babys clothes.
Later she says that she was compelled
to entertain his guests and patients
at dinner long after she ceased to be
presentable on account of pregnancy.
And before confinement our maid
went and from that time on did my
own work, and Of course in that house
nj he
coal and the chopping of the Ignite
and the chopping of the wood 1t was
very heavy work and soon after that
began to suffer excrusiating pain and
! was very, very i'll all the time. When
/ would tell DR.. Rindlaub that I was
iii he would sneer at me: tell him how
my back ached he would say, how
would you like to have the backache
all the time; tell him it hurt me so
much to carry these heavy loads and
carry water up and down the stairs
and fill the stoves. he would say, Well.
didn't DR.. Darrow say that exercise
was good for you| ] can't re-
member, for months. surely for weeks
and weeks at time. that he ever
spoke a civil word to me i'm that house
HiliNCSs III NbuLENS WE IEdu guests IN
the house He didn't treat me as
If I was a human being, didn't seem
to look upon me I'm that way" Just
before Bruce was born she SAYS she
was awakened in the night with ter
rible suffering and thought she was
about to be confined and she awakened
the doctor and told him about il and
he said, ooh. Lord, I wish you would
keep still and let me sleep" and he
turned over and she suffered the rest
of the night alone. The next morning
at breakfast she said to him: 81 can't
stand ii to be treated that way" and
he said, 'Tf you can't stand 1t YOU
know what you can do, don't you
If YOU can't stand it you can CO." At
another time when she put her arms
around him in an affectionate way she
says che would throw me off and
make very unkindly remarks; one
thing that / remember n. lid to me
was that it wasn't necessary to slobber
all over a person to let them know
that you care for them, hat that didn't
mean anything. that was nothing but
an old hypocrite anyway When she
was carrying Bruce, their first child.
she says defendant accused her of
being crazy. In this connection she
refers to the time when she was con-
fined to her bed and was very i'll and
the defendant stood at the foot of her
bed and looked own on her an said.
MAZE, do you know that your mother
Is crazy and you are just like her." and
she says: 81 remember that cried
and sobbed and crieI and he went
put and left me. A little later she
sle testifles as follows: @. did he ever
speak of your being a hypocrite ?" A.
Yes, very often. / used to meet him
1T the door when he came home and
Kiss him and 1t was at these times that
ne would tell me that was a hypo-
erite; that / didn't mean anything
hat / did ." @. did he ever make |
my statement criticizing your fathers |
or your mothers manners
and If so what was his way of making
such criticism" A. ooh. father and |
mother were never spoken Of In anv
way except with a slur or sheer.
That was so from the first OF our COM |
ng home. 1t hurt me more the |
:hings that he said of my father and |
mother, than what he said about ne; |
he could say anything to me and IL
would not hurt me half so much. She
'ays that as a result of the birth of |
8r1fce she suffered laceration and that |
IN the fourth or fifth day thereafter
Or. barrow performed an operation /
m her with no anaesthetic, and this
n the presence of DIR. Rindlaub. and
he says she suffered a, long time from |
hat operation and was in a tense
ind of nervous condition" In speak
ng of his general demeanor toward
Ter she used the following expression:
I newer knew when there was going
o be an outburst. 1t would come
out of a perfectly clear sky.
never knew from our conversation
IT anything that had passed before,
1ut often ! could tell from his face
because it would generally be grey.
md have those lines about his face. |
His expression at zuch times is some /
hing hardly E1ow how to describe.
excepting he expresses fury and hate. |
ne hates me and it showed in every
hing he did, everything he looked. |
There was one expression that at times
when he was terribly angry with me
hat I used to see and that was a
irawing OF his upper lip so that his
eyeteeth showed. It was like a dog
when 1t snarles at you, unnatural to |
human beings At another place abe |
estifies that he repeatedly called her
liar. Again, He used to tell me I
hat my room was better than my
company" Plaintiff makes mention
If a luncheon which she gave in honor
If defendants mother. and she says. /
Instead of being pleased he was fur |