The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-05-03
CLAIMS HIS WIFE
TRIED MURDER
sTEPDAuGHTER OF FORMER
NORTH DAKOTA JUDGE is BE.
ING SUED FOR DIVORCE IN IDA.
Ho--MAIDEN NAME WAS FRED
DIE BARTHOLOMEW.

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residents of the state is the news item
below which appears in a recent issue
of q Boise, Idaho. daily paper, con-
corning Freddie b. Maloy, formerly
Freddie B. Bartholomew step-daugh-
ter OF Judge Bartholomew of the
North Dakota state bench. Freddie
Bartholomew lived many years in Far
go and Bismarck and is a daughter Of
Mrs. Bartholomew, who is now an in
mate of the jamestown asylum for the
insane. The Boise, Idaho, paper tells
the following interesting story OF a
divorce case in which Freddie Maloy
is figuring as one of the principals:
With husband and wife claiming
that each is crazy enc of the most
unusual cases of divorce to be filed in
the history OF the district court here
was placed on record yesterday, when
George Maloy fled application for di-
vorce from Freddie B. Maloy.
Some months ago Maloy had his
wife arrested and charged with in
sanity. DR.. w. B. Lyman and DR.. J.
A. Stewart made an examination, and
DR.. Layman said last night that they
came to the conclusion that the wo-
man was entirely in her right mind,
but that the husband was mentally
unsound,
He was capable of earning a good
living, and was insane simply on one
point. He labored under the hallu-
cination that everyone was trying to
kill him. He claimed that his broth
er in Chicago had attempted his life,
and that frequently attempts had been
made to poison him in the restaurants
Of this city. He has become quite vio-
lent within the past few months, and
! have kept Mrs. Maloy at our home"
'It is claimed that MaIoy has re-
Gently sent threatening letters to his
wife.
Mrs. Maloy, whose maiden name was
Bartholomew, comes from North Da-
kota. She met Maloy in Chicago
originally, and they engaged in theat-
rical work of vaudeville sort in that
city. Her father upon his death left
about $4,000 to Mrs. Maloy, all of
which has been spent.
The Maloys came to Boise more
than year ago. 1t was one night
while he was playing in a small thea
ire here that he claims his wife came
into the theatre and raised a disturb
ance Following this he had her ar
rested.
Maloy is now employed as piano
player at the Isis moving picture
theatre.
Complaint Is Filed.
That his wife threatened to kill him
the very night they were married is
among the allegations made by George
Maloy in his petition for divorce.
The complaint sets forth that the
couple were married in Boise on April
5. 1910. According to MaIoy. they
were married at 10 o'clock in the
morning, and on that very night he
recites that he awoke to see his wife
standing over him with a large knife
in her hand, and that she threatened
to Kill him. Two days later Maloy
claims that his spouse refused to al
low him in the house and that when
he attempted to get in he was met by
his trate wife, who with an axe in
her hands proceeded to drive him to
the street A day or two later she is
said to have thrown scalding water in
his face, and this not having the de-
sired effect she is averred to have
placed pulverized glass on a choice
piece of beefsteak which Maloy was
about to eat. When he made the dis
covery and entered a mild protest, he
claims that his wife chased him out Of
the house with a Ratchet.
Ties IL on Dog.
Later in the day Maloy came to
the conclusion that anything good
enough for him was good enough for
his wife's lap dog, and consequently
he handed the animal the meat, with
the result, so he says, that he was
again subjected to abusive language
by the woman, who is alleged to have
professed that she cared more for the
dog than for him."
That meat will kill my dog" it is
averred she said. Il think more Of my
dog than 1 do of you"
That the wife had a varied choice
regarding ways and means by which
she hoped to dispose of her husband.
is shown further in the complaint,
where it is alleged that Maloy awoke
| on the night of April 10 to see his
wife standing over him with a large
hammer in her hands, and that when
he protested against the demonstra-
ton she threw the hammer at him.
Then, in an alleged final effort to rid
herself of him, she grabbed a knife
and chased him out into the street in
his night clothing.
On April 10, it is stated, the plain
tin concluded that his wife had put
poison in his tea, and in consequence
refused to drink it, whereupon she is
said to have abused him roundly and
informed Maloy that he was crazy
The final allegation capped the CHI
max. and what transpired thereafter
| is not told, but 1t is intimated that
Maloy left home.
1t was on April Is, so the COM
plant sets forth, that the wife appar-
emily became sorry for her treatment
of her husband. and threw her arms
about his neck, apologizing to and
kissing him, when, it is said, MaIoy
discovered that she had a dagger in
her hand, which he tried to take away
from her, when she kicked and clawed
and said that she would never stop
until she had killed him 1t is alleged
among minor difficulties which life
presented for Maloy that he was driven
out Of the house in his night cIothinS
on several occasions when the wife
became too vigorous in welding dish
pans, and several occasions were re
cited wherein Mrs Maloy threw scald.
ing water upon him and said: Ell
murder you yet
The allegation Is likewise made that
the plaintiff had habit OF going out