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Show THE DE STEURS DIVORCE CASE. The Harmless Says Her Husband Asked Her to Play the Coquette, Siot x Falls, S.D., Feb. !. The De SteurB dlvorre case began yesterday, the Baroness dc Stcurs, Count Scbrouskl, her lawyer and her maid being in court. The baroness w as pttt on the stand, and Occupied the whole morning in telling her story. She was a very bright witness and quite won the hearts of her hearers. She says that her husband was always cruel and Irritable with her. II called her a a "savage American". Often at state din. ners he would become angry at her and shout at her, "I wish to tiod I had never married you." Once, whon minister at Madrid, negotiating a delicate commercial commer-cial treat, he asked her to play tho coquetlo with the minister of commerce com-merce and make him think he could do w hat he liked with her. This base proposal she indignantly rejected. He charged her with being unfaithful. June 1:1, 1M1.I, he two doctors examine her as to her sanitv, and took her children away from her. She left him and has not seen him since. Tho deposition of Baron de Stcurs is In teresting, the document giving glimpses of life in aristocratic European circles. The baron attributes all the trouble he had with his wife to her peculiar nervous affliction, Which ballled thu best medical skill. During her cross-examination Madame de Steurs Instilled to the baron's efforts to have her confined in a "retreat." She said she was worth Sl,(KHl,(Ki. all in New York properly. Her maid nave supporting testimony. |