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TONY MULLANESUED FOR DIVORCEHis Wife Tells of Barbarous Actsof Cruelty.She Asks for a Fair Proportion of His$350 a Month Salary,Four Small Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors.The Lafayette Bank Loses Its SuitAgainst the County.7A Busy Day in the CourtB — Miscellaneous Proceeding's and Minor Mention.Tony Muilane, the pitcher of the Cincinnati base bali nine, is defendant in a suit for divorce and alimony. .The Base Ball Chib are enjoined from paying him any further salary until further order of the Court, and a decree Is asked divesting him of all interest in his wife's real estate, in Chicago.Barbara lt;!. M ill lane, the plaintiff, is represented by Harry L. Cooler. Her petition alleges that the marriage occurred in 18SG. They have one child, four years of age. The charge is extreme cruelty, instances of cru-e!cy in ben: ing the plaintiff are mentionedus far bark us 1889. On one occasion Tonyis represented as dragging the plaintiff out of bed by the neck, and pushing her and their one-aiid-a-half-year-old baby out in thecold hall, and compelling them to remain there for four hours. Tnis was. during the month of February, 1891, The wife says there was no provocation at all for such treatment.and in consequence of it she left him; but, in May following, he hunted her uo, and made profuse promises that if she would return to him he would thereafter* treat her well, and she yielded, and they began living together again. In .December following the bail tobser returned home at 8 o’clock in the morning, and drove plaintiff out of bed and out of the house, compelling her to walk through a heavy fall . of snow, with their baby, to the home of her mo’ther—tnat is, from Richmond street to Carlisle avenue. Frequent other acts of cruelty are set forth, and the Court is informed that no less than a hundred such acts occurred.The most recent, occurring on May 10 of this yfar, is given. Something had appearedlt;I’11lt;]1lt;trttein the Cincinnati papers with reference to the defendant’s relations with . the Cincinnati Base Ball Club, and upon his return home the plaintiff ^remonstrated with him on account of it. His response was a vicious attack, in which he beat her over the head with a glass pitcher and stabbed her in the neck and arm with a knife, and kicked and beat her. Soon after this he left the city, making no provision at all for her wants, although knowing that she hadn’t a dollar. When she urged her own needs and those ofratetthe baby, Tony told her to go and earn her own living. Mullane’s salary is $350 per month. He has drawn what became due on the 15th for the first half of the month. The ‘ourt enjoins further payments to him. The wife has some property in Chicago, which is neumbered, a«nd foreclosure proceedings arehreatened unless she makes payments. Thishe is unable to do, and therefore desires to sell and save what she can from the proceeds, jilt Mullane refuses, and has for some time refused to Join with her in a deed. If her jrayer is granted, there will be no occasion ’or his signing the deed after a decree in this 'ase is entered.tlfibS-afirlt;tih01afccaVOHGpacllt;
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, May 25, 1893
Page 16
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