The Washington herald., 1913-11-08
ENVOYDRUNKARD,
DECLARES Wife
Sonora Pastor, Seeking Mar
rage Annulment. Alleges
Long Sprees.
TESTIMONY Is REJECTED
Justies Stafford Gives PlAln6Rs Ceaa-
sel Few Days b Which b Seek
to Gather SronseF Preef.
TESTIMONY Is REJECTED

Concluding that insunhcisnt testimony
had been adduced to sustain the charges
alleged by Sonora Constance Caxenove
Lee DO Pastor, In her suit for 1nnul-
nent Of marriage against Senior Luis
Pastor, Spanish Minister to China md
Siam, Justice Stafford yesterday gave
counsel for the plaintiff q few days In
which &c see II stronge- proof can be
gathered IN support OF Sonora Pastors
charges. II this IL forthcoming the case
again win be referred to an examiner In
chancery, and II 1t Is not produced the
court intirnated that the wife's petition
would be dismissed.
Plaintiff, in her suit. made the charge
that he husbands system had been af-
fected by the excessive use OF liquor and
aIlegef that he had unusual tastes. She
filed a. exhibits two French novels en-
titled Ia Corruption a Paris" and
"Morpalne-" Sonora Pastor gave a mi
mute description of her married life, testi-
Tying that they were married June p
1906, at st. Patrick's Church, Baltimore.
by the Rev. William T. Russell. now
rector Of ST. Pstrick's Church, this city.
She says they went TO Narragansett Pier
on their honeymoon and lived in this
city from September, 1906. to September,
1909, and then spent sixteen months in
Madrid, going from there to Pekin. where
she stayed only thirty days.
Drunk for Weeks, She Says.
Referring to the alleged habits of her
husband, Sonora r3stor testified in part:
He arrived in Pans drunk, and stayed
so during the whole six or eight weeks.
Sailed for the Far East drunk, and was
. drunk until we got TO Pekin. The thirty
days / spent there IN China he was sim
ply fndescribabIe-raving.'
Senior Pastor forgot to register his
wife at the Cumberland Hotel. New
York, where they spent part of thGir
honeymoon, according to plaintiff, who
testified that the clerk called Senor Pas
tors attention to the TACT, when he said:
''oh, by jove, my wife. / quite forgot :"
That he threatened his own life vas
alleged by the plaInrtf. and she also
stated that on one occasion he intended
to jump on the Connecticut Avenue
bridge and rushed out INTO the street In
his pajamas. She said he frequently
called her names and was subject to
spells which she said were due to his
heavy drinking.
Extracts from His Letter.
There are a number of letters and
scraps of letters of Senior Pastor among
the exhibits, referring to his alleged
physical condition. One of these says in
part: Although 1 know ii will break
my heart and kill me, as my whole life
is not worth one day of your happiness,
I really feel that l ought to give you
back your freedom. which you so ear
nestly claimed. Owing to natural and
very apparent signs, You know, darling,
that ! cannot live long, and / had en-
tertained the comforting hops that you
might have stayed with me TO the end
s'and l might have you by my bedside
when the last came, so that you shoul1
. have shut my eyes with your dear little
fingers; but II even this Providence has
denied me. l must add this griec u the
rlauy that ill my heart and resign my
self TO my cruel fate. l should ike
have my last taste of happiness in this
world by still being" Letters cuIs
abruptly
Another part of the letter is as fol-
lows:
Whatever my shortcomings may be
think there is certain amount of no.
bility in my heart. so ! am leaving the
whole thing with you TO settle and de-
eide, dear, as you see, and with refer
ence to less sentimental things, I hope
that you understand that If you break
away from me, and / can outlive the
grief which is next to impossible, will
see to II, whether you marry c. or not,
that the money which you have taken
from your capital TO help me, goes back
TO you in its full total; if / should die
as a result of the sorrow of seeing you
go of or if ] should find it impossible TO
resist longer the temptation Of taking my
life. 1 would leave things so. arranged
that you might claim with absolute GER
titude of success any deposit of money
that l may have In any bank or banks,
after paying the expenses of my fu-
neral"
In answer to the question why she had
waited more than three years to seek
an annulment of her marriage, the wit
ness answered: Il thought he would
cease drinking"