The Detroit times., 1910-11-02
GENTLEMAN FRIEND
] Of WIFE BEAT HER,
HUBBY SAYS
Edward Huber, Well-Known POhh-
cal Worker, Explains WOman's Bat.
tered Face-Consorts With Other
Men, He Tells Court.
Occasionally Suffers From D. rs and
Is Handy With the Poker, Are
Other Allegations.

Spectators in Judge HOsmer's court
were treated TO one OF the most laugh
able entertainments they have enjoy
nd In a long time, Tuesday morning
when Edward Huber recited his troub-
les with his wife, Nettie. Huber is
wellknown political worker In the
Eleventh ward. and an employee Of the
board of works, having four teams
wording for the city. He is some.
thing OF a character in his way. and
ibis answers during the cross-examina.
tion had the opposing attorney flus-
tered, and caused much merriment
In his direct-examination Huber
Enlarged that his wife drank ID excess
land associated with vile characters.
both men and women lie was rep.
Presented by Attorney Eugene Mister
sky.
What was your wifes business
,Then you married herr" he was ask.
aBd by Attorney Patrick Kellaher. who
Represented the wife.
Il don't know what her business
named Davis"
Living as his wife,
Sure, she was had to go there
~ get uCI
"You get drunk yourself occasion
nlly, don't you?"
"Once In a while | touch IL up a
hittle when at political meeting. You
know you've got to mix with the
bunch. l had a few just last night.
but I can always take care or myself.
CAS- a matter OF fact aren't you
hnrunk every week.
'Not on your life. You are on the
wrong tack there. Why, didn touch
anything once for seven weeks.
"How did those scars come on your
wife's face?"
"Some of her other gentlemen
Friends licked her. She was trying
70 keep more than one fellow on the
string at the same time, and they got
Jealous and one OF 'em beat her up.
rCan you name any OF those Eel
lows?"
TSure. that's easy. Paul Bach, Gus
Sylvester and" but at that point the
attorney asked another question ana
the, last wasn't completed.
qYour wife charges that you dldn l
huy her any clothes; how about that
~IT tell you what ! done. ] bought
her about three good suits year,
while I wore secondhand clothes.
was always buying her presents.
Never a birthday went by out wha'
ghe got something, and every niue
while I was giving her some trlnket.
"You haven't bought her very much
lately, have your
you bet I haven't. Let Gus Syi-
vester do that. She's running win
him now"
NOW, didn't you abuse your wife
10 that she had to so out 10 your
mothers home to recover.
"To recover from what? Why man
uhe had the delirium tremens, and
sent her out there to sober up. why,
when she went out TO the farm every
corn stalk she saw she thought was
an Indian after her, and she was al
ways picking little pigs and snakes
and things on her. After her carous-
nls / have forgiven that woman at
least thirty times, but mans heart
Fails him sometimes, and the last time
put her out
"And you hit her with the poker ?"
mot a bit of it, but she has landed
OnC me with It a good many times.
Her batting average would make Ty
Cobb look sick"
gOu MIN nNl OAN vi Aht
house one day, and as she ran throw
brick AZ her, which missed her and
broke q board on the barn."
mo, you are twisted again. She
heaved the brick at me-one of them
big paving bricks-and it landed, too
right on that bald spot. And a little
girl who saw IL said: On, see Mr.
Huber, IL broke off a corner OF the
brick"
At this reply the audience roared
and II was some minutes before the
case proceeded.
did you ever pour bottle Of beer
down her neck""
Nothing like that? She could tip
khe bottle enough herself, that was
The trouble"
did you ever slap herr"
We'll, perhaps, after she had land
ed on me with fat iron l might
have slapped her. Don't you think
She needed II? Why, that woman
was SO mean she would beat me with
h cane, when | was sound asleep
But / didn't sleep long, because she
could use the cane all right, all right
During her husbands testimony
Mrs. Huber sat beside her attorney
EsmiIing most of the time. She Is
setill a young woman and bears traces
lof her former beauty, but dissipation
has left its mark. In her younger
days she was music teacher and
\ pianist.
IA A significant fact in the case is
that two of Mrs. Huber's sisters will
hoafifv against her