Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-24
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
CHAMPION HENPECKED MAN IS
 A RESIDENT OF CHICAGO.
In Answering Divorce Bill He Says Wife Threw Stove at Him, Be- sides Using Hammer, Scissors,
 FIsts and Feet as Weapons.

Chicago.-August F. w. Siebel, at- torney in the Fort Dearborn building, the other day made an answer to all the tales told therein can be credited, brands him as the most henpecked husband in America.
 The Siebels were married in 1903 and have three children. They at- tained some notoriety in June when Siebel "kidnaped" his children and took them for an outing at Lincoln park. There he fed them all the ice cream they wanted Afterward he took them home. Mrs. Siebel, who is a partner in the West Side Conserva- tory of Music, previously had sued him for divorce. She charged him with cruelty and desertion.
 Siebel's answer ayers that so far as the cruelty and desertion is concerned. the shoe is on the other foot He chronicled his married life in detail, and, if his averments are accurate. matrlmony for him was a continuous war.
 His troubles, he said, began a few months after the marriage, and cul- minated in three day battle, which started on December 31, 1907, and continued until January 2, 1908, when. for self-preservation, he packed up and left home. His disagreements with his wife, so the bill stated, all had their origin in his wife's over- weening delight in "the glare of mid night enjoyment" In less melodrama- tic language, this means that Mrs. Siebel was visiting gaudy restaurants at night, while husband stayed home and minded the babies.
 Mrs. Siebel, said her husband, not only beat him regularly and earnestly, but boasted of her pugilistic ability.
 Among the instruments of her wrath were the following: A ham, mer. scissors. her fists. her feet, a plate, section of gas hose, small gas stove, foot rule, her shoes, his razor, wrench, butcher knife. their furniture
 One of the things that made Siebel want to leave home, said his bill. was his wife's curtain lectures.
 He was obliged to lay on the f1oor," said the bill, and endeavor to sleep, but said Patricia B. Siebel by her con- 1 tinual abuse, splitting in your orators 1 face and striking him, prevented him even securing sleep in the bathroom The crowning catastrophe occurred 1 on New Years evening, December 31, 1907. Mrs. Siebe1, said the bill. went out celebrating while her husband re- mained at home with their children. She was out on the streets. said the bill until 1:15 in the morning, when she returned and invited him to join her in the festivities. He refused, according to the bill, and she struck him and locked him out of the house. He stopped that day at hotel, but returned to his residence January 2.
 When she had got him safely inside. said the bill. his wife attacked him with an "eight-foot gas hose. breaking his nose and greatly bruising his face, continuing such beating for over half i an hour and while she was so en- ragged she threw small gas stove at your orator, bruising him on the back came to the room and said: There is no use doing that, you cannot hurt him that way where upon she took a one foot rule and struck your orator i on the shoulder thereby breaking said rule.'