The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25
CAN'T Be HAPPY.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. F. Coleman
Agree on This Point.
Each Claims That the Other Is
at Fault.

Troubles in Vinton f. Coleman's s
home are being told today in Judge
Dana's court from several different
angles and a dozen witnesses are ex-
planning why pretty Julia Coleman left
her happy home. Both Mrs. Coleman
and her husband are asking for a di-
vorce and it is up to the court to de-
eide who was to blame.
Coleman. who is a promising young
man, has been shipping clerk for the
Davis Mercantile company for several
years. Shortly after his marriage to
Julia Metty. a daughter of DIR. Sol
Metty. Coleman and his wife moved to
sos West First street. 1t was here
that trouble started when the second
child was born in February, 1903.
On the witness stand this morning
Mrs. Coleman told of her husbands S
heartless treatment. She said he had
repeatedly urged her to leave him and
had threatened to knock her head
off, and on other occasions said he
would shoot her. The abused wife also
testified that Coleman sWore at her in
Judge Dana told Mrs. Coleman it
would be necessary to repeat the hus
bands exact language, she stood pat
and vowed she never would use the
vile words. Then Mrs. Coleman told
the court that her husband had told
of his intimacy with other women and
she also charged that Coleman was
stingy and would not buy her clothing
OF give neT SpeHuIlB fnOney- CHe Sd1u
it had been necessary for her to keep
board ers. to do a neighbor's sewing
and washing in order to provide for
her own necessities and those of the
children.
It was after the wife and a string
of witnesses had told of the troubles
in the home that Coleman himself was
given an inning. He related a tale of
woe that is not found in the treatise
on why men leave home. He told the
court all about Julia's uneven temper
and her whims and follies that made
his life unbearable.
In the court room was the family
grocer who substantiated the hus-
bands statement that he gave his wife
his paw check and that it was in
variably cashed at the grocery store.
when the second baby came and he
said he had a hard TIME keeping her
on the domestic track and petted and
humored her much he would a
child. He denied intimacy with other
women.
Coleman also reminded the court
that he never used harsh words to his
wife, that he swept the floors and
washed the dishes and cooked manv of
the meals and in reality was a decided
ly henpecked man. He said he couldn't
help the little family differences that
sometimes arose on account of Julia's
disposition and that he used every
method to calm her.
Then one day Coleman said he re-
turned from his work. expecting to find
a nice warm supper awaiting. He was
a sadly disappointed man. Instead of
a cheerful greeting from the wife and
babies. the furniture was gone. the wife
and children We're gone and the house
was deserted as the day he rented it.
Julia had gone to live with her folks.
The next day Coleman was made de-
fendant in suit for divorce and all
mony. Since that time Coleman had
paid his wife $25 a month under an
order Of the court
No. Coleman was sure he was not to
blame. But he didn't want to try 1t
again. Neither did Julia SO Judge
Dana must decide who will land the
decree and the babies.
Two Husbands son Carpet"
Two delinquent husbands were ar
raigned in Judge Whitcomb's division
of the district court today and prom
ised to be good and send some Of their
earnings to their wives and babies.
William Cloud and Joseph Glabasnia
both admitted they had done wrong,
repented and promised to do better.
Cloud left his wife and children sew
eral months ago. He went to Colo