The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01
Prospector Accused of Misusing Wife Woman Slowly Starving in Totat|anika

A story Cf a Han's nhumG tity to 2 woman. q story of destitlIrion which Ia al of .ts details k so re yol,ins to ordinary human narulu as 10 be absolutely unprntahle in most respects: is that told ly Mr and Mrs Harry C. Cloes and l. \ Lilly, who recently returned to Fair banks from tha I'otatlanika country
 The story concerns Mr. and Ms. |
 P. Sherman and their little fou' ycar-tld sul. the latter mite who knows nothing of 8 mothers caru beyond kicks and curses. for t1r reason that the mother i5 domina,- ed by the father. who is nothina more than brute, if the stories
 tue And it would appear that they are true. as the marital life of the Shermans-how he has kicked and beaten bis wife; how he has failed to provide either food or
 't{ thing for her either in winter CT
 summer. has long been subject of gossip among observing Fair
 banksans and people of the Totat
 lanika.
 It has been asserted locally that
 Mrs. Sherman is weak-minded While in the presence of her hus band she is dominated by him en tirelv, according to the stories. but
 when he is not around she tell. just enough Of her life story wit the man Sherman to convince he, hearers that he is everything whic' he is said to be and that printers ink cannot paint his character black enough.
 sherman is the owner of cons q erable mining ground In the Totat-
 lanika country, and has made hi headquarters there for a number o, years past About five years az, he married Lois Eckert daughter of Mrs. J. II. Patten of th; city
 and tcok her with him to the To tatlanika country on his periodical trips there, mostly in the summer They usually leave here in the sprine of the year just bfore the breakup and return late in the fall, spendne the principal part of the winter in
 Fairbanks.
 During the:e five years seven born and unborn children have come { the couple, according to the stcriee told by Mrs sherman Of these two are living. the youngest. about two years of age, having been lei ! with the Brunette family last spring when MT. and Mrs. Sherman went
 to the Totatlanika country. It e stated that Mrs. Sherman is agair
 to be confined in January, and tha;
 with her husband, she will arrive in Fairbanks within the next few days
 When Mr. and Mrs. sherman came to Fairbanks two years ago from
 the Totatlanika, they lost one of
 their children. At the time the story told was that the child froze tc death but it now develops that the mother has stated times in
 numerable that it starved to deatt at her breast for lack of nourish , ment and that she herself nearly
 died The only food the Sherman. 1 had at the time, it is stated was
 "a bbts, but, when the supply gave
 out, they sustained life unt'l th2y could reach human habitaticn by yrAv~i7g the bones of a malamute deg, which, it is reported. had been
 :iHod ty Sherman.
 That Sherman is attempting to
 starve his wife and child to death and that he is slowly succeedjne
 in doing SO, is the opinion of those who know the details Of how they
 have lived during the past sum-
 mer Mrs. Sherman was bedridden great deal of the time and had no thing more nourishing to eat dur ing her illness than beans and rice None of the common, ordi-
 nary necessities of life found their way to the Sherman cabin on the Tntatlanika according 10 the stOr