The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-02-02
MILDRED BRUINS
SEEKS DIVORCE
Charges Henry C. Bruins With
CrueIty-Married Her for
Her Money.
(From wednesdny s Advortiser. }

AEAVm NtuHteuhl y AuNtAAAHtAsJ
That her husband, Henry C. Bruins,
married her for her money and has
since the ceremony been cruel to her
is charged by Mrs. Mildred Bruins in
the complaint fled by her in Judge
Whitney's court last Saturday. The
complaint, which contains several SEN
sational accusations, was to have been
issued Monday. but slight mistake
caused the delay. Attorney E. G. Pc
tiers is acting as attorney for the plain
tiff, who is the daughter of William H.
Smith, of the Shoe Manufacturing
Company of this city.
The dove of peace never had a
chance in the Bruins home, according to
the wife's complaint. Almost from the
first, she says, she found her husband
to be of ''mean, calculating and avar-
icious disposition" He was unkind
enough to tell her, she AYERS, that he
was bitterly disappointed at the amount
of the cash present her father gave
them on their marriage, and to re.
proach "and taunt' her with her
parents failure to provide more lib.
orally for their daughter.
! The complaint goes on to assert
that ''the said H. @. Bruins knew be-
fore the marriage that her father was
wealthy" and showed that he had ex.
pected better things But the real
trouble came when, few weeks after
the wedding, June z, 1910, Mrs. Smith,
the mother.in-law, came to live with
the young couple.
Trouble Begins at Once.
Bruins, says his wife in her statement,
had promised that he would receive his
brides mother and allow her to live
with them on the understanding that
she was to pay one-half of the family
expenses. After the elder lady ar
rived in tho house, however, he seems
to have reconsidered his decision and
the complaint asserts "did try to pro-
woke quarrel between Mrs. Bruins
and Mrs. Smith. "He also continually
used insulting and provocative lam
guage" to the old lady, says her
daughter.
Matters appear to have gone on from
bad to worse until in June of last year,
eleven months after Mrs. Smith went
to live with her daughter and son-in-
law, when. according to the complaint
there was a violent outbreak on the part
of the husband, and Mrs. Bruins alleges
that her husband struck her mother on
the breast with his hand. The com
plant is silent on what followed, save
for the statement that on the same
day, June A, 1911, Bruins quit the
house, saying that his wife had better
get divorce and that he had found
that married life was not all he had
pictured it when he proposed. Some
time after that-the complaint is vague
about the dates-he returned and
begged her forgiveness. This, she says,
she granted, but that before long mat
tiers in the Bruins household were back
on the same old footing
Couple Drift Apart.
From February on Bruins had fallen
into the habit of locking himself up
in his bedroom and refusing to allow
his mother.in-law or his wife access to
his room. He also about that time de-
clined to allow his wife to show him
any signs of endearment saying that he
hated such. All this was, says Mrs.
Bruins, aggravated by the fact that he
would not take her to dances, or If
he allowed her to go would not permit
her to dance with other men. He also
objected, she declares, to the amount
of money she spent upon clothes, say
ing ~ am not millionaire and can't
afford the way you dress"
Mr.. Bruins, through her attorney,
asks temporary alimony and reasonable
counsel fees pending the trial of the
tOdy of her child.