Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-30
mrs. HENRY COE
I sues, FORtDYORCE

The following from the Portland Ore
gonian should be Of intense interest to
coe is a sister Of Alfonso Boley, and
with her husband made their home in
Mahdan for a great nan years.
Charging that her husband. DIR. Henry
has attempted to discredit her socially,
financially and professionally. threatened
to do her bodily harm, treated her cruelty
and in a to humiliate her n at.
tempted to estrange her from her chill
dren. Mrs. Viola M. Coe has filed suit
against nr. Coe for divorce and for the
a. Coe, aged II and Wayne w. Coe aged
10.
Mrs. Coe filed an affidavit in which
she asserted that because OF the filing
would be greatly enraged, would come to
her home at Lovejoy and Twenty fifth
streets, and do her great bodily harm.
Acting on this affidavit, Judge Kava-
CIoe during the pendancy of the sui.
from visiting his wife's home.
Mrs. Coe filed suit several weeks 6
against her husband. asking for an ac-
Sanitarium in which Or. Coe and Mrs.
Coe both claim a large interest. Mrs. Coe
in her first suit against her husband,
charged that he had refused to account
for large sums of money received as an
office Of the Coe Sanitarium for the cure
Of insane patients from Alaska, the san.
itarium having q contract to care for
this class of patients.
About four years ago Mrs. C0e al
leges, her husband commenced syste.
matically to annoy and ~aggravate her.
About this time, she says, he became
possessed of an idea that she believed
him to be mentally deficient or erratic
and continually importuned her to sign
mentally deficient. On numerous occasions
he would attack her, she charges, and
once threw her on a couch with such
force that bruises remained on her body
for several days.
During the last three years DR.. Coe
has falsely. accused her, Mrs. Coe says
of being dishonest In their property af-
fairs, when in truth, she says, she has
saved him from financial ruin by sacri.
ticing her own property. as a result Of
which assistance he was enabled to make
a large profit.
complaint states. when he gave a series of
Sunday dinners at Portland hotels, at
Whlch men and women We're his guests
at which time he insinuated that he did
not know where his wife was, when he
kne that she was at home, as was her
custom, having dinner with her children.
more Gnalrelsome and angrier than ever
before Mrs. Coc charges, ''On account
of serious property disputes which have
arisen and Or. Coe is attempting. she
10 cHedt ana uelfdlu nPf out OF a |
large portion of her property, and has Il
Vel formed plan to ruin her financially.
Whereby he expects to gain q large
amount Of the property for himself.
DIN !Coe has never overlooked an ,p-
nnrtnnity to rummage through her room
and private effects. Mrs. Coe charges.
and has insisted that his mother maxi
her home with them. which. because OF
their e"strangement, embarrassed her. Or.
Coo is of an eccentric and errl,ic disp.,-
sutton and has become coarse, vulgar
and brutal, Mrs. Coe says, in his 'condrct
towards her and exhibits a disposition
~ humiliate her.
DR.. and Mrs. Coe were married in
Mardan, N. D. June "a, 1882. For a mum
Der of years Mrs. Coe has been associat-
cd with her husband in the conduct az
q private sanitarium in and about Port.
land. At the present they are operating
Coe sanitarilm at Mornnngsia". -
a suit is pending in the Circuit court.
They rive at Twenty-fifth and Lovejoy