The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23

| they thought they ought to get out
of town as they had a chance and 1
/ invited them to go with me. They ac-
cepted and L called my wife and told
| her they were coming She told me
not to bring them. Wen, 1 had in
I vited them and couldn't very we'll tell
them they couldn't 60 Naturally they
went ana weren't very well received.
! After they left for home because they
were not wanted, We held a session
in the living ROOM They berated' me
for my inhuman conduct in imposing
people upon them and for walking
( around over the farm with Mrs. BOleS
instead Of my wife. 1 was enter
tanning the people L had brought"
DR.. Ernest also testified that Mrs.
Ernest objected to Mrs. George Err
nest, mis- nephew's wife, while he was
treating her fer illness That he said
was five or six years ago.
ion? ''
Il was too familiar
DO anything improper"
Ernest also stated that there were
other women but he did not wish to
name them. The women, the doctor
claimed, We're patients.
She Made Him Sick.
Mrs. Ernest often told me- the
doctor testified, that I was not Civ
doing all the work and getting all the
credit. She said 1 didn't appreciate
her and implied that she honored me
when she married me-
What did you say to that?"
''Wel, she had honored me-
You heard a good many unfavor-
able truths about yourself?"
Yes
did she ever neglect to tell you
about them
Never did"
Ever lose any patients on account
of your wife,
WAS your health impaired by crit
icism?''
with the kind of work I was doing
and being kept awake nights 1 got
to a place where 1 was sick in mind
and body"
Then we took a trip to California"
Ernest told the court. On that trip
my wife and I had a disa greement
we were on a coast boat. 1t was then
that I realized that I and my wife
could never get along"
I'm the bedroom that you occupied
at S26 Kansas avenue was there
light over your bed?'
Yes
Mrs. Ernest ever turn it on while
you were in bed and trying to Sleep"
She would turn it on SO she could
have light while talking to me-"
'In terms of reproof2"
Yes. before and after the trip"
what did you say?"
81 tried first to reassure her that
her suspicious were unfounded; that
she was my wife and as long as she
was other women had no possible way
of taking her place"
lied Two Lives"
"a DR.. Jekyn and Mr.. Hyde" was |
the way Mrs. Elvenor Ann Ernest |
described her husband in conversa- |
testimony given on the witness stand |
in the Ernest case by Miss Alice |
Ginger, 1881 Topeka avenue, en- |
ployed in the Santa F'e offices. Sew |
stand to show that Mrs Ernest had |
a way of talking to all her friends
about her husband
In cross-examination w. A. S. Bird
and Judge z. T. Hazen. attorneys for
Mrs. Ernest, attempted to bring out
that the only talking done by Mrs.
Ernest was about the unhappiness
made her by Miss Edith Knox They
to show that Mrs. Ernest |
tried to win back her husbands af-
lection.
The Ernest family servants fur
nished no end of comedy for the
courtroom spectators.
Mrs. Tennessee Skeers, the old col
ored was1erw oman, testified that she
never saw Mrs. Ernest ask for money
but what she got it: Sometimes five,
ten and twenty dollar amounts.
In qualifying Mrs. Skeers as a wit
ness the attorneys in the case asked
her how long she had been working.
She replied:
81 got married twenty-seven years
ago and went to work the following
Monday. I've been workin' ever
since"
Cuma Smith, colored, who worked
FOR the Ernests in the summer of 1914,
stated she once told Mrs. Ernest that
# she had a husband who didn't be- ]
have himself she would get a divorce.
Mrs. Ernest's reply. according to
he witness, was:
THAT would please him only too ]
we'll"
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