Show NELLIE TAYLOR TELLS HOW MOW DRINK CONVERTED HUSBAND INTO A BRUTE Nellie R Taylor told a most astonishing story star of ot cruelty ta t Judge Armstrong yes and was granted a decree of at eU dl L vorce Ee from rom Clarence W Taylor son of the late Bishop George H Taylor rs Taylor Is a pretty pretty r rh ra woman of me h height and slender and she carried herself hersel with Uh dignity throughout the pro cc Asked fed If sli she had learned to hate bate Taylor during the five months that has Inter between the filing of at the com corn plaint and the trial she replied It takes tales longer than that for a woman to hate a man she once loved The charges made against the husband by the wife included drunkenness and cruelty She declared that on many man occasions her husband had seen things because of excessive drinking and that he lie was also cruel and abusive to her while he was drunk His hobby was pinching me and he would do so sometimes until I cried c d with pain she declared I dont know why he did it unless it was because he knew it annoyed me meIrs Mrs Irs Katherine Stevenson who lived next to t he Taylors at West Vest Third South street said that one night Taylor came home Intoxicated and started to beat his wife After a struggle she freed treed herself from him and snatching her babe ran into the street On another occasion he choked her lier al almost almost almost most to death de th and tore her clothing One night Mrs Stevenson said Taylor came home late He Ho was drunk ed Id to abuse his wife She retaliated in kind however and seized a horsewhip which she had hidden and gave him a se severe severe severe vere whipping Give It to him again came a voice olce from a neighboring house and Mrs Tay Taylor Taylor lor br obeyed the command The Taylors Ta lors married in 1899 and lived happily for a year when the hus bus husband husband band started to drink Judge Armstrong also granted a divorce to Anna Martenson from Christian Mar Martenson Martenson Martenson tenson They The were married in 1881 1837 and andt the t e wife asserted that he has not sup supported supported supported ported her for f r the past year She was gWen given the custody custod of three minor chil children children children dren and an adopted child A divorce was also granted to Rachael RachaelE E Miner from Mason Iason Miner on the grounds of desertion and nonsupport The testimony was heard beard several weeks ago |