The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-04
HOME LIFE HARD
Mrs. Shull Replies to Husbands
Divorce Plea.
Blames MOther-in-Law for
Family Troubles.

Hilda Shull. Homer ShulPs bride of
year, filed an answer and cross petit
ton IN the district court today, to the
divorce petition filed by her husband
early in the week. She filed it thru
her attorney, D, H. Branaman, and
besides asking that her husband be
denied the divorce, devotes several
pages to removing the epidermis from
different parts of his anatomy.
The first thing Shull did after filing
his petition was to obtain a restraining
order keeping her away from the
Shull home on West Sixth avenue. The
first thing Mrs. Shull did after filing
her cross petition was to ask the court
to grant her alimony and an attorney
fee. She was granted both-s6 a week
alimony and SIS as an attorney feee,
that situation TO last pending the final
hearing.
Mrs. Shull blames most of the trou-
BILE in the Shull household to Shulrs
mother. She says she did not want to
marry Shull and live with his mother;
that she objected to it in advance but
that he insisted and she finally con-
scented. But, she says, he guaranteed
that if there should be any trouble
he would protect her and provide a
separate home for her.
Blames Mother-in-law.
Things moved along smoothly for a
time, Mrs. Shull says, because she
catered to every wish of her mother
in-law but the time came when even
that failed. She says she could do
nothing that would please. She says
her mother-in-law told her that she
wished she would leave and never
come back; that she hoped lightning
would strike her or an automobile hit
her and kill her; that she accused her
of stealing, found fault with her eating
and called her low, degrading names
Mrs. Shull says she told her hus-
band these things and wanted to move
out but that he refused, then became
sullen and insolvent, moving to an
other part of the house and spending
his time there. Then, she says, he
and his mother formed a collision to
make it SO disagreeable that she woulc
leave.
Once, she says, she protested
against his mothers treatment of her
and he assaulted her, pushing her
down into a chair and thrusting his
hand and fingers into her mouth and
eyes until he blackened her face
When she tried to use the telephone,
she says he attacked her again vicious
ly-so viciously that the neighbors
called the police.
Big Fuss Last Sunday.
1t was last Sunday that the police
were called to quell the disturbance 1T
the Shull home. Mrs Shull was not
there when they arrived but they
found evidences of a fight. Mrs.
Shulrs nephew had called after she
left and made inquiries for her. Be-
fore he left there was a fight between
him and Shull in which the latter sus-
tanned black eyes and an otherwise
damaged countenance.
Mrs. Shull says when her husband
restrained her from their home he left
her out in the world without dollar.
She states in the petition that he earns
good salary from the Santa Fe and
that he has money in the bank-how
much she does not know. She asks
that the court deny her husband a di-
vorce but she does not ask for one
herself. She merely asks that he be
required to pay her alimony and her
attorney fee.