The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-12
MAID ASSERTS
SHEVIASH 1T"
INNH0USEH0LD
Police Called in Once but Wife
Didn't Want Her Husband
Arrested.

ST. LOUIS. Mar. 1.-the question
OF who was the at" in tho homo OF
George X. Fisher. member OF the
brokerage Arm OF Fisher. Scmplc and
Company, was one OF the causes OF tho
difficulties between Fisher and his
wife, Mrs. Laura s. Fisher, OF No. 4545
Mcpherson avenue, according to her
testimony in Circuit Judge Arnold's
court. where their divorce case Ia on
trial
Mrs. Fisher told Judge Arnold abe
was greatly Inundated when II
year old nurse had told her In the
presence Of Fisher that she 1.-THE maid)
was "the IT. in the house, and that
Mrs. Fisher waR nothing"
The witness fixed the time OF the al
legged occasion as the day Picrpont
Morgan died.
"My husband came home late to
supper that night" Mrs. Fisher told
the court. II was tired and lay down
on couch in room adjoining the
dining room so that could converse
with my husband while he ate. I
asked him to tell mo about PIcrpont
Morgan's death. but he did not an
swer me.
"Then l got up and walked into the
dining room and saw my husband
standing laughing Mt the maid. He
didn't answer me at all. The maid
then said to me in his presence: I'm
the 1t and you are nothing. He won't
talk to you at all when I'm around"
How long did the maid stay at
your home after that epEsode?' Nor
ton Jordan, attorney for Fisher, asked
her.
about week" the witness replied.
On her direct examination Mrs.
Fisher said the maid often accompa-
MED Fisher to the garage ito help
him fix the automobile"
"0n those occasions isn't 1t a fact
that one OF the children was always
along?" Jourdan asked her.
Certainly not" the witness replied.
MANY times they were out there ms
late as ii o'clock, when tho children
were in bed"
The spectators who crowded Judge
Arnold s little court room INDUCED in
a laugh when Attorney Jourdan. DUR
ing his cross examination. offered for
identification comic valentine. One
of the causes of the separation OF the
couple was the sending Of comic VAL
entlne by Mrs. Fisher to her husband.
Mrs. Fisher explained that this was a
"joke." and that she had sent one to
the cook also, and to another of the
servants.
Fisher, however, the testimony
showed couldn't see the joke. and a
disnute followed, during which Mrs.
Fisher claimed her husband knocked
her down and attempted to choke her.
"Ts this the valentine you sent yorir
HuBband?" J0ilrdaIi asked. handing
the witness highly colnred "comie.F
'Oh. no, no. no." she replied. II
swallowed half of the valentine sent
him. The other half he tore out OF
my mouth"
Mrs. Fisher said the comic she sent
her husband bore a verse beginning,
"a man who is dead beat"
ibid you mean to- insinuate that
your husband is dead beat'?" Jour-
dan asked.
II did not"
Jourdan then asked the witness re-
eardlng the tussle they had after
Fisher received the valentine. The al
legged episode occurred last February
rs. and the police were called to the
Fisher home. but when Mrs. Fisher
told tho police she didn't want her
husband arrested the case was drop
ped.
@Didn't YOU bite Mr.. Fishers finger
during that melee" Jourdan asked the
witness.
mfr. rnurdan. I'm not a cannibal, e
sha rerlfed.
The FISHERS were married in Lin
colin county. wv. June IL. 1902. They
have four children. Mary 10: Dorothy
IN: laura. o. and Georpe wears old.
Fisher lives Mt no. 45a1 Westminster
Place. In his cross bill he denied his
wfte's charges. t'+