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Show SAYS WIFE TRIED TO TAKE HIS LIFE Sensational Allegations in Cros3 Complaint Filed by Frank F. Armstrong. HIGHLY sensational are the allegations allega-tions made by Frank F. Armstrong Arm-strong In a cross complaint for divorce filed In the District court yesterday. The defendant denies all the allegations made by the wife, Sophia So-phia Armstrong, In her complaint, and charges her with threatening and attempting at-tempting to take ills life upon numerous numer-ous occasions. On November 20, 1902, It 13 alleged that the plaintiff attempted to poison the defendant by putting atrychnlne in a glass of milk and setting set-ting it before him to drink. In Juno, 1003, he accuses his wife with threatening to kill him with a loaded pistol leveled nt his head, and in September, Sep-tember, that year. Armstrong alleges !lhat she attempted to throw carbolic acid In hla face. Four days later, the defendant allege?, ho found his wife In a frenzied condition upon returning from his work, and that after accusing him of visiting places, of disrepute she drew a loaded pistol and threatened to kill him. In October, 1003, tho plaintiff Is alleged al-leged to have come home at about 1 o'clock one mornlnc in an Intoxicated condition, and to have threatened to kill their Infant child with an ax. Again that same month Armstrong says his wife attacked him with a razor and that when he took the weapon from her she secured a pistol and ordered him from tho house, saying that If he dldp't get out, he would bo' carried out In a box. As a climax to all this the defendant allcgGR that whllo he was sick in bed, his wife told him that hc loved another anoth-er man, and that if tho defendant would only get out of the house Bhe would have another man there in his place. Tho defendant asks that the complaint com-plaint filed by his wife bo dlsmisned, that their marriage be annulled and that the custody of their one minor child be awarded to him. |