Weekly journal-miner., 1921-07-20
LONGEST SUIT
 FUR 4 DIVORCE
William Sehl Alleges Insults and
 Injuries by Wife in Course of
 Five Years and Asks That Property Be Decreed
(From Fridays Daily)

From Fridays Daily)
 Five years of forbearance under insults piled with injuries are de scribed in the most lengthy divorce complaint ever filed here William Sehl, in the notable document, re- cites the reasons he desires a di- vorce and decree of property rights, and names his wife, Norma Rae Sehl, as the defendant. Sehl is an Englishman, whose patient and per sistent efforts to become citizen of America have kept naturalization of ficials busy during period of lost Q papers and negotiations.
 Sehl is an upholsterer, employed by the Santa Fe. He has two houses here, and in his complaint, seeks to have one of them, together with all furnishings, placed in the legal pos session of his wife.
 Abusive language and the abuse of household articles as weapons are offered in the complaint as grounds for the separation. "Excesses, cruel treatment, outrages, the use of per sonal violence" were interspersed with refusals flor weeks to cook" the plaintiffs food, so that he was reduced to the alternative of eating in the restaurants of the city of Prescott. An important charge in the complaint is that Mrs. Sehl cared very little for the sanitary arrange ments about the house, but left everything filtered up. She filled the backyard with refuse, which had not only detestable odor, but endangered health.
 Coming right down to details, the complaint tells how the wife ire quently in private and in public, used vile, obscene and violent langu- age toward the plaintiff, and she ap piled epithets to him so severe that they could not be incorporated in a
 
 guage Of the defendant is not set forth in the complaint. But if her talk is glossed over, her acts are not. | Continuing, the complaint narrates domestic battles alleged to have taken place ill the Sehl household:
 The wife "struck, choked and gen. orally mistreated" the husband. One time she threw heavy butter dish | at him and another time she struck him over the head with a broom. Again she dashed at him with a large bread knife. In the summer of 1917, she threatened to kill him. In the spring of 1918, she assaulted him. In September, 1918, and at other times, she grabbed, choked and beat" the plaintiff, and capping it all, assaulted him with a can opener" and drove a darning needle into his ankle.
 The plaintiff declared that he tried to love, cherish and caress" his wife. He underwent his trials in the hope that she would become recon ciled and that they might live peace | fully together. But she had two children by a former husband from whom she was divorced, and she in cited them to acts of disrespect and defiance, and his efforts to make peace were to no avail.
 Property is Involved
 According to the complaint, Sehl owned number of lots in the town of Las Cruces, N. M., at the time of the marriage on November 30, 1912. This property, he seeks to have set I aside as not community property. a Since the marriage, two houses have been acquired in Prescott, one on | Alarcon street, which is valued at i about $3,O00, together with up to | $500 worth of furniture, and the other on Virginia street, valued in C money at $2,200, but more valued u by the plaintiff as the refuge he was j. forced to seek finally from his wife The Alarcon street house he asks to p have decreed with its furnishings to b Mrs. Sehl and the Virginia street b house to himself. Howard Cornick and R. B. Westervelt represent the plaintiff.