Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-23
DRAGS YOUNG WIFE:
INTO COUNTY COURT
FOR SANITY TESTS
FORMER EUNIcE BoYNs OF oTTA.
WA, PATHETIC FIGURE DURING
HEARING BEFORE JUDGE REck,
AND COMMISSION OF DOCTORS,
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A woman's devotion to the man she
married even though her Spirit APP.
pears to be broken and fears her only
weapon to long drawn out verbal
abuse the public heaDed upon her was
shown yesterday by Mrs. Eunice Mi.
chalski. wife of Adam Michalski, First
and Bucklin streets, La Sale. in the
county court ip this city After Adam,
who Is Of Polish descent, fled a petit
ton to have his wife declared insane,
had officers bring her to Ottawa. and
Inundated her before crowd OF
county officials and other spectators,
Mrs. Michalski begged to be allowed
10 return home with him, stating
that she could get along with him,
and that her two babies needed a
mothers care. The couple left the
court house together after the hearing
OF Mrs. Michalski's sanity was con.
tinued until next Friday.
Adam filed a petition yesterday, ask
ing that the wife, who is nothing but a
young girl, and unusually pretty, be
declared insane. Deputy Sheriff Chas.
/ Campbell and Probation Officer Launia
Aussem went to La Sale to get the de-
/ PENDANT, taking with them straps, hand
cuffs and other articles for handling
a violent patient They believed Mrs.
Michalski was in bad condition V,nen
they reached there thew fo"nd c"'-',
young woman, who except for her
nervousness and hor !
them absolutely no trouble. She ap.
peared to be quite rational. and was
perfectly willing to do everything they
requested
Mrs. Mchalski was recognized by
the officers as the former Eunice Nix
on, OF Ottawa, who married and left
here in January, 1920 Her two year old
son, she told them was with her hus-
bonds relatives. where he had been
placed by his father. Neighbors volun.
teered to care for her two month old
daughter, Eunice, while she came to
Ottawa
On his way here, Adam is said to
have continually "bawled out his wife,
about her alleged shortcomings. Mrs.
Michalski met his verbal abuse in a
manner that created great sympathy
for her, by silently sobbing.
Upon their arrival at the court
house, Attorney Elmer E. Roberts, who
had known Mrs. Michalski as a girl
saw her plight, and volunteered his
services in her defense.
Michalski's voice, as he told of his
wife's shortcomings carried from the
third to the second floor of the court
house. He nagged, and nagged His
only interruption as he talked, was to
stop speaking Of Mrs Michalski's al
legged faults, long enough to tell how
honorable" and square he was, and
how much the people in La Sale and
Peru thought of him He told about
the respect he had acquired, the unlim-
tied credit he possessed and his war
record, when according to his state
ment he served twenty-five months in
France.
The only pleasure | ever got was
when | crossed over to France during
the war;" he stated at one time. again
he alleged that he saw so much diff |
Guilty and strife during the war, he
dId not want any strife in his home
life.
At one juncture during his talk he
angrilly turned to his wife and said, |
why didn't you obey me. Don't you
know you promised to obey. You don't
belong to your mother anymore after
you are married, you belong to your
husband. What did the Judge tell you,
didn't he tell you to obey" Mrs. Mi
chalski bowed her head.
One charge Michalski made against
his wife was that she threw fiat irons
at him." Where did she hit your" he
was asked. II lodged Them" he re.
piled
The man finally condescended to al.