New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
Woman Asserts Husbands
Rise i'm Life Wrecked
Their Home.
SHE ALLEGES HE
CARESSED ANOTHER
Termed "Thick" and Cruelty
Used Her. Complaint States
in Separation Suit.

According TO the complaint of Mrs.
Margaret Robinson, in her separation
suit against Ernest Robinson. filed in
the Supreme Court, much Of their un-
happiness was caused by the elevation
of her husband in commercial and
social life and his dissatisfaction with
the education and social sttainments OF
his wife.
Mrs. Robinson based her action on
allegations of abandonment and cruelty.
She asserted also that her husband in
sisted that one of his women friends
select the style Of dress for his wife.
because he would not trust to the taste
of Mrs. Robinson.
Robinson is superintendent Of the
United States Metals Products Com
pany, in which place he said he receives
SIS a week. Justice Newburger award
ed the wife S25 week alimony.
Robinson used TO work in Penn
sylvania steel mill. but since those
modest days, said his wife. he had on
several occasions tried TO impress the
plaintiff with a sense OF her own short
comings." She was not converse
tionalist, and, in fact. was thick" her
husband told her, asserted Mrs. Robin
son.
The couple were married on Christ
mas Day, 1906 Robinson's mental and
social superiority, his wife said. dated
from 1912. when he made a trip TO
Europe in the interest of his employers.
"Since then" asserted Mrs. Robinson,
L. 81 lotr ttstf
favorable comparisons with his recently
acquired women acquaintances." lie
found fault, il is alleged, because his
wife could not converse in manner TO
suit him, saying she was Ignorant"
had mo taste" and mo sense" The
wife said that the treatment had worn
her to "a mere shadow" and formerly
she was a healthy, robust woman.
After her husband went away Mrs.
Robinson wrote a letter. in which she
refused longer to be the goat for his
"blunt remarks. for / never do any
thing right" She also told him that
she was tired of Seeing you with your
long face and not word out of YOU"
Mrs. Robinson said that he had an
automobile. but that he took her out
only once, and that time he caused the
Shlu u N''N
was frightened.
Robinson denied responsibility for
the skdding, and denied also that the
car belonged to him.
One of the persons mentioned by
Mrs. Robinson as the object of her hus-
bands attention was a young woman
who came here from Cincinnati. That
was while they were living at College
Point.
1t was Rohinson's custom to take this
young woman for walks, it is alleged.
One night, Mrs. Robinson alleges, she
found her husband in the kitchen of
their home affectionately caressing the
young visitor. His explanation was
that she had lately lost her sweetheart
and he was trying 10 console her.
Robinson's story is that his wife de-
serted him three times. The first time,
he said, was in 1907, in Ellwood City.
Penn, where he was employed in a
steel mill. Mrs. Robinson denied the
desertion, but said that she wanted TO
20 to New York because of the danger
to the family by remaining in Ellwood
City, where the foreign employees were
on strike at the time. She said she
feared that the strikers might harm
her husband, and in the evening used
to call for him at the mill, carrying a
lantern and accompanied by dog.