New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Physician Asks
Court toCag His
Doctor Wife
c. r. Hancock Alleges She
Takes Drugs, Prays All
Night and Tells People
Her Husband Is Insane
Says She Lied About Age
Child by Former Marriage
Turns Out To Be Full
Grown, Bald.Headed Man

DR.. Charles R. Hancock, unable to
still the alleged slanderous statements
uttered by his wife, DR.. Eugenia Gobeil
Hancock, yesterday appealed to the Su
preme Court for an injunction enjoin-
ing her from repeating her utterances.
This is said to be the first move of
its kind in the Supeme Court of New
York County, wherein q husband has
asked the court to close the mouth of
his wife by means of an injunction.
DR.. Hancock admitted that he had made
wife to hold her peace
The injunction proceeding, which is
brought for Immediate relief, is part of
another brought by Dr.. Hancock where
IN ne sues for either an annulment of
his m rrage to the defendant or a
separation. The one is asked because
of alleged false representations made
by his wife. on which the plaintiff says
ne married her, and the other because
of the wife's alleged conduct since
their marriage, which the husband al
leges, has injured his professional
practice and has made it dangerous to
five with her. The Hancocks have been
living at the Hotel lie Marquis, II East
Thirty-frst Street, where the woman
practitioner also had her office. DR..
Hancock has an office at II East
Thirty y-eghth Street and lately has
lived at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
DR.. Eugenia Hancock was served at
the Hotel lie Marquis.
Lied About Age, He Says
One of Dr. Hancock's allegations in
his annulment action is that his wife
misrepresented her age in 1909 when
they were married. He was thirty
years old at the time and, according
to the husband, his prospective bride
said she was of the same age, and so
put down her age whom applying for
marriage license. Continuing his COM
plant, DR.. Hancock quoted his wife as
telling him before their marriage that
she had been married and obtained
divorce from Harry Thompson, her
first husband, by whom she had
child, who was living in the West The
defendant also held herself out as
woman of good character and health.
By these statements, said DR.. Hancock,
he was induced to marry the woman
physician.
After the marriage, said DR.. Han
cock, his wife's child came from the
West. He was a full grown man of
about the same age as his mothers
cording to DR.. Hancock, the son was
baldheaded. Thereupon Dr. Hancock
investigated and as a result of what
he alleged he learned, he made the
allegation that his wife was much more
than thirty years old when she mar
ried him and that it was her first hus-
band who obtained the divorce, not
She
This divorce was granted in Fergus
County, Montana, in 1908, year before
Mrs. Hancock married the plain
tiff, and under its provisions she was
not permitted to remarry at that time,
alleged DR.. Hancock. The husband also
alleged that his wife has been too
friendly with man named Agostini.
Prayed All Night
DR.. Hancock further alleged that his
wife continually took drugs that af-
fected her mentally, consulted fortune
tellers and talked of lying awake all
night in prayer She told him of va
rious delusions and hallucinations
which she had and which took, from
time to time, more acute form. One
Of these delusions was that her hus-
band was helpless and insane and that
she would continually pray until she
learned what to do with him. DR..
Eugenia Hancock, her husband said.
importuned him to take out an insur,
ance policy on his life. He finally took
out $4,000 policy in favor of his
wife, who paid the first premium. DR..
Hancock complained that his wife told
other persons of her peculiar delusion
that her husband was insane and this
has injured him in his professional
practice, which, he fears. will make it
impossible for him to support himself.
The physician said the threats made
by his wife made it dangerous to con-
tinue to live with her. He warned his
wife, through an attorney, that unless
she ceased circulating the stories
about him he would have to apply to
the court for an injunction directing
her to hold her tongue The alleged
reply of the wife was that she would
continue talking.