Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-03-24
ARE
MADE EXPLICIT
Attorneys For Dr. Hankison
Comply With Demands of
Counsel For His Wife
MANY INDIGNITIES
Are Charged BY Plaintiff in Divorce
Suit-Recites Domestic TrOu-
bles In Detail.

As a result of demand made by
the attorneys for Mrs. Emma Miller
Hankison, who secured an order from
Judge J. M. Elliott in the Jefferson
chancery court directing Attorneys
Coleman and CAN'T, counsel for DIR.
o. G. Hankison, who is suing HIS wife
for divorce, to file an amended and
more explicit complaint because
charges made in the original petition
were not deemed plain, DIR. Handsome
attorneys yesterday filed their amend
ed petition, in which the plaintiff re-
lates why he can no longer live with
his wife and why he was recently
forced to take up his residence else
where in this city.
In the petition the plaintiff charges
many indignities, to which he de-
clares he was subjected during his
married life. He says the jealousy OF
his wife was wholly without cause or
reason.
AS a physician he was called from
his home on many occasions at night
TO attend patients and upon his return
he says, his wife would upbraid him.
and in harsh and jealous manner
inquire where he had been, what he
had been doing and why he did not
return earlier. According to the petit
ton when he would try to make
truthful and patient explanation, his
wife would become more abusive and
quarrelsome.
It is reviewed that on August 5,
1909, while the plaintiff, defendant
end her sister were travelling from
Pine Bluff to st. Louis, and shortly
after they had left Pine Bluff, 1t be-
came necessary for the plaintiff to go
into another car. and, upon his return
his wife upbraided him in loud and
angry tone Of voice for neglecting
her and leaving her alone. She could
not be quieted. says the plaintiff, not
withstanding there were many other
passengers in the car. A scene similar
to this, says the petition, was repat-
ed in Union Station, st. Louis, the
next morning in the midst Of large
number Of spectators and again on
Broadway in New York City.
At none Of these times. says the
plaintiff. was there any reason for the
charges made by the defendant and
there were no women with whom
she could charge improper conduct oN
his part The unreasonable jealousy,
it is cahrged, destroyed all congenial-
ity between the plaintiff and defend
ant and made life intolerable for him.
Again on August S, while they were
in st. Louis. the plaintiff declares
that while travelling between Pine
Bluff and Jonesboro the defendant
"heaped unmerited reproach upon
plaintiff" by calling him across the
car and in an angry tone said: Come
here and sit by your wife. This is
your place, you have no business be-
ing anywhere else,' and that he had
neglected her and that he was act
ing a fool, when he had simply gone
into another car for only short
space of time.
On many occasions, during their
married life, says the petition, too
numerous to mention specifically, but
especially during the past two years,
the defendant has reproached him for
net caring as much as he should for
her mother, her sisters end especially
her brother, and for not doing as
much for them as he should. He was
continually scolded, says PLAINTIFF, BE-
cause she charged that he had net
used the proper tact in talking to his
patients and has repeatedly reminded
him that he had done "this Oh. that or
the other thing wrong" From morn
ing until night and even during the
night. he has been told OF his short
comings and mistakes, not for his I'M
movement Or benefit but to annoy
and harass him.
The plaintiff says Mrs. Hankison
threatened Oh many occasions to leave
him, the last time being about Decem-