Show SAID WIFE ABUSED HIM Touching Testimony in Anderson Ander-son Divorce Case I HUSBAND TOLD SAD TALE i j I I Anderson Testified that His Wife Struck Him in the Face Tore His Clothes and Falsely Charged Him with Infidelity Mrs Anderson is Awarded Custody of Children and AlimonyEdith Jane Sevan Prays I for a Uivorcs on Ground of Cruelty Jurors for May Term Deputy Clerk Blair of tho Third District Dis-trict court took testimony yesterday In the divorce case of Charles C Anderson Ander-son vs Barbara Anderson and will recommend to the court that the plaintiff plain-tiff be granted the dtcrce The defendant de-fendant did not appear and the testimony testi-mony of the plaintiff showed that Mrs Anderson treated her husband cruelly that on August 30th at the corner of Main and Third South streets she struck him In the face called him a brute and a vagabond tore his clothes and falsely accused him of being untrue un-true to his marriage vows Anderson also testified that his wife had habitually habitu-ally abused him by striking him callIng call-Ing him vile names and falsely accusing accus-ing him of being criminally intimate with a number of women and finally compelled him to abandon his own home His testimony was corroborated by William Dcnhalter Mrs Anderson was awarded thc cus tocly of the two children Amelia and Andrew and was also allowed S a month alimony unlll the younger child Andrew aged 9 shall have attained his majority P P Chrlstenson was the attorney for Anderson |