A Wife's Sad Tale

The filing of a bilí for divorce by lary West, of Sylvan, from Wilson Vest, her husband, brings to light story which if true is seldom qualled for cruelty and inhuman reatment. The parties were maried at Weedsport, N. Y., in 1855 nd lived peacefully together for 35 ears. They had thirteen children. en of whom are now living, their ges ranging from 18 to 38 years. In the bill the plaintiff claimf hat during the past three years hei ïusband has treated her with exreme cruelty. She says that in ugust, 1892, she was committed te he insane asylum at Pontiac without a hearing, on the affidavits of wo physicians, but two months ater the authorities there required ïim to take her home again. The jlaintiff is blind and has been unble to do many things asked of her )y her husband. One of the worst phases of the )ill is the charge of the mother gainst her children which show, if rué, less filial affection than that hown by the lowest order of brutes. She charges in her bill that the ather often urged the children to trike the mother, and even to kill ïer. She says that they did this on numerous occasions which she cites, one son even loading a shotgun when she left home and threatening o shoot her brains out if she came jack. She tells also of a daughter sweeping dirt in her face, which she )eing blind wes unable to escape. She claims that this abuse by the children was approved of by her husband. She also alleges that her husband again tried to have her committed to the Eastern Insane Asylum by a petition to the probate court on May 3ist of this year but was unsuccessful, the court determining on June 5Ü1 that she was not nsane. The wife claims that her husband owns 170 acres of land and personal propertyin Sylvan, and Judge Kinne issued an injunction restraining him from disposing of his property while the case is pending.