Show Sickening Details That the country must shudder over the revelations in the John L Sullivan and wife divorce case no longer admits of doubt The brutal treatment of the poor man by the woman he expected to love honor and protect him is something unparalleled un-paralleled in the history of oppression Testimony of the case is not in yet but we know very well what it will be On one occasion Mrs Sullivan came suddenly sud-denly upon Tohn when he was writing a little ode to be read before one of the Boston literary societies and in a rage because he had neglected the baby threw him bodily out of a secondstory window On another occasion she assaulted as-saulted him because he had dropped something on the tablecloth breaking three of his legs and crushing in a rib He always defended himself as best he could but in vain as his formidable assailant as-sailant weighs over 100 pounds and is as strong as any sickly woman of her weight It will be shown that not content with sudden violence she even contrived means of more deliberate torture frequently fre-quently tying the suffering man to a bedpost bed-post and beating him with a strap using the buckle end exclusively One day when in an especially savage mood she seized him by the arm twisting his elbow almost from the socket and being prevented pre-vented from tearing away the entire limb only by the entrance of neighbors who I pulled her from her shrieking victim But the details of the terrible case are j I too shocking for publication Chicago I I Tribune |