Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-08
)THER OF TEMA PARKER MAKES CHARGES AGAINST G. SMART

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wife's bedside in a sulky manner say,
ing nothing for some little time, when
MS wife asked him. GILL. why do you
not talk to me?T to which he replied
Il have nothing to say she then In
an exhausted manner turned away
from him and said. "Oh. very we'll
you had better go now" after which
he went out OF the room and out OF
the house and remained out Of said
house until late at night.
That on two occasions, after. the
arrival of your petitioners daughter in
San Francisco and shortly prior to her
death, your petitioners said daughter
SPOKE 10 her relative to getting a
divorce From her manner and eX'
preston it was evident to your peti
toner that she was so hurt and wound
ed at her husbands lack of care and
attention that she would have obtain
ed divorce from him had the same
been possible. That your petitioner
on this occasion quieted her in SO far
as possible and did not permit the
conversation to go further than was
absolutely necessary.
That during said period Of time he
was riding about San Francisco in
automobiles apparently callous as to
his wife's condition.
Doctors Requests ignored.
That as your petitioner Is Informed
and verify believes, DR. Willetts, who
had charge of her said daughters i'll
ness in San Francisco, reproached the
said Smart for his treatment of his
said wife and for being absent from
the place where she was lying ill and
informed him that he must not go
away for long periods Of time and
the nurse informed him that he must
keep within telephone communication
so that they might know his where
abouts at any time; that these sug-
gestions and requests made by the said
doctor and nurse to the said Smart
were absolutely ignored and in spite
thereof he continued to absent him.
self from said house and neglected
and refused to give to his said wife
the care and affection to which she
was entitled and begged for.
That this attitude of the said Smart
toward. his said wife continued prac-
tically until the time of her death.
That on the 21st day of November,
1914, your petitioner left San Fran
cisco en- route to Honolulu, accompa-
MED by the said Smart, his son Rich
ard and various other members of
your petitioners family and on the
same steamer Was brought the re-
mains of said Smart's wife and their
deceased child, for the purpose of bur-
ial of the same at said Waimea; that
as your petitioner Is Informed and YER
lily believes during the trip from San
Francisco to Honolulu, upon said ship,
he, the said Smart was at times in
an intoxicated condition and was dur
ing said trip repeatedly engaged in
gambling in the smoking room of said
ship and elsewhere and the night be-
fore the ship arrived in Honolulu said
Smart was In an intoxicated condition
at the dinner table and thereafter
made an unfortunate exhibition of him
self in the smoking room, talking in
a loud voice and gambling, entirely
the 'proprieties of the oc.
casion and showing in plain and I'M
way his lack of regard for
his dead wife sand child and lack of
OF the decencies which
the situation required,
mo Affection for Child" -..
That during the period of time when
your petitioner was with her daughter
and her daughters said husband and
child, the said Smart evinced no af
lection for the said child, such lack
of affection being so evident that
Smart's own sister stated to Smart's
wife in your petitioners presence that
it was perfectly terrible the way Gail
lard treated Richard, that he never
took HIM up or played with him or
paid any attention to him, to which
statement, made by Smart's sister as
aforesaid, Smart.s wife replied as fol.
lows: He has never been any diff
ferent.' The foregoing conversation
overheard by your petitioner as afore-
said was the first real knowledge she
had of Smart's absolute indifference.
TO the child and disregard of it's in
terests.
That during the said trip across the
continent and thereafter up to the time
Of his wife's death i'll San Francisco
aforesaid, the said Smart paid no at
his said child, Richard
Smart, lack of affection for said
child being so manifest that others
spoke to his wife relative thereto and
she in her turn spoke to him saying
he did not seem to love the child.
That your petitioner was Informed
by her said daughter that the said
Smart never spoke to said child ex-
.ept to scold 1t. ....-
That 1t was manifest from the atti.
.ude of the child toward his father
hat it feared and had no affection for
him.
Abuse Of Child Claimed.
That while your petitioner was in
honolulu, after her arrival from San
Francisco with said Smart and said
infant, as she is informed and verify
believes, the said Smart at one time
while at the residence of friend in
honolulu, slapped the said child about
he head and on the face to such an