| Show A mother in laws hatred datre scarcely able to walk and covered from head bead to foot with bruises br aises a young german woman named grosh groan made her way to the city hall this morning in ill company with several neighbors and told a sad story of hunger privation and want and cruel treatment at the hands bands of ef iter husband and his mother her story was that two months ago the girl married nicholas grosh a house bouse mover who was living with his bis mother brother and sister at the corner of fourteenth and centre streets the house was a two story building and grosh and his young wife began housekeeping in the lower part while the rest of the family occupied the second story the marriage was against the wishes of the mother and immediately after the arrival oi of b hr bor new daughter the old woman began a systematic course of persecution and never let an opportunity pass to make the young cifes life miserable finally she persuaded her son to leave his bis wife and come upstairs up stairs to live le leaving 1139 I 1 her alone in the lower part of the house this change occurred two weeks ago since Which time according to the young womans comans statement she has be been subject to all manner ot abuses the go goods ds wit with which the young couple went to housekeeping bouse keeping were purchased on the instalment installment plan an and at the time of the se separation egere there yet remained due on tte the goods 41 which it is claimed nicholas was fully able to p pay y but instead of doing so told the storekeeper t ed eleeter that he be did not want the goods a and that lie he could remove them the goods were taken away last week the only article of furniture left being a cooking stove the young woman owned a few of the bed clothes and with these she made a bed on the floor where she has slept during the recent cold nights without a light or fire at times there was nothing to te eat in the house bouse and ashamed to let her friends or neighbors know of her pitiful condition she would retire to tier her lonely cot in this condit condition conditto tn the deserted woman was lying last wednesday night when she ab heard footsteps coming down the stairway on the outs outside ide and in a few moments more nearly every pane of glass in the windows in that part of the bouse was broken allowing lowin g the e cold drizzling rain to fall upon the bed where almost crazed by grief and fright the helpless woman lay all these things n a she bore uncomplainingly until als this morning when she says her mother in ia law beat her unmercifully and threatened to kill her it if she did not leave another son witnessed the affair but did not interfere her cries however her who was told by the mother that f he ever lived with the woman again she would kill him also it is not improbable that the young woman would gave have received still further punishment ment had bad it not been for the arrival of some acme of the neighbors the deserted wife is in a delicate condition and the treatment sh she e has received way may result seriously she is rather good looking with a gentle face and pleasant manners for two or three years she was employed as a servant at the residence of max me mover er leaving there when she was marrcil marr married Col the young woman has always borne a good reputation while the neighbors assert that the husbands family is very unsavory mrs grosh the mother in law pleaded guilty to as sau baultin saul it tin in the police court this afternoon and paid 10 and abd costs omaha world may 19 |
