Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-03
WIFE BIT HANDS
STATES HUSBAND
Emile C. Hutchinson Shows Scars
to Judge Monroe in Di-
VoTCe Case
DECLARES SLEEP WAS DENIED
Tore Clothes to Prevent Him Co.
ing from Home, He
TeStifieS
DECLARES SLEEP WAS DENIED

Declaring that his wife bit chunks
out of his hands in rage and spat
the pieces on the floor of their hoIlc'
Emile c. Hutchinson showed the scars
left on his hands to Judge Monroe yes
terday morning when he went on tne
stand to testify against Charlolte T.
Hutchinson in his suit for divorce.
Hutchinson declared that when he
was working on the Southern Pacific
railroad as a trainman he came home
one morning after being thirty-elght
hours on the road and tried TO sleep
lie declared his wife refused 70 aiio"
him to slumber, and every time he COM
menced to doze she took ms braces
and beat him over the head with the
fncl,les to keen him awake. Finally
he went to the house of neighbor
and tried to sleep sitting up IN chair'
hut she followed him and continued the
beating, he declared.
BEATEN WITH TRACES
Later he engaged in the business of
selling potatoes from a wagon, ana
his wife protested, he said. one morn
ing when he was hitching up the horse
she came running out and used one OF
the tugs of the harness and peat MN
on the head. He showed the scar TO
Judge Monroe. He also showed Wnere
she had bitten him on the ears When
had aroused the neighborhood with her
rawlings, according to the plaintiff.
On another occasion he had dressed
to call on a friend, he said, and she
brought a dish of flour and threw II
over his clothing so he could not 60. I1e
then put on some old clothes ana sne
grabbed and tore them, he declared,
ON another occasion when he dressed
TO go our he declares she leaned over
from the stairs and spat mouthful or
licorice iuice down his neck IN an ell
fort to prevent his departure.
According to the plaintiff, she insist
ed on carrying the purse, and would
raise all kinds of a row until he gave
her the last penny he had. Needing
Some change last July, he secured her
purse. but she held two hat pins against
his chest like daggers and forced him
to give the purse back, he declared.
During the afternoon attorneys for
Mrs. Hutchinson brought her into
court, claiming that she had recovered
sufficiently from her illness to attend.
She dropped on the floor in an epileptic
fit and had to be carried from the
court room to the hallway, where II
was several hours before she revived.
In view of this phase of the case,
Judge Monroe declared that instead OF
going out to her house to hear her
testimony he would secure deposl-
ton from her when she became Well
and then decide the case on the evil
dence introduced.
WILL BE EXAMINED
Attorneys for Hutchinson declared If
she were examined by a physician 1t
would be found she was shammlng
or was not in her right mind, and the
plaintiff offered to pay for doctor TO
make the examination. This was ac-
cepted by Judge Monroe, and Dr. Dill
lon was appointed to make the eXahl-
nation.
Attorneys for the defendant an
nounced that Mrs Hutchinson was i'll
and unable to attend the trial, so Judge
Monroe took the testimony and ar
ranged to visit Mrs. Hutchinson at her
home in this city, TO hear her part OF
the story. Attorneys for the plalntlf
allege she was shamming sickness to
delay the trial, and declared she fire.
ouently tainted in order to gain her
wav with her husband. The latter also
charged her with swearing out COM
plants against him SO that on one
occasion he was arrested and had to
serve a sentence in the city jail for as
saulting her. He declared he had never
struck her, but that she had perjured
herself to get the best of him.