ONE OF THE MEANEST OF HUSBANDS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 414, 9 October 1875, Page 3

ONE OF THE MEANEST OF HUSBANDS.

The meanest husband of them all has recently revealed himself in Chicago. He is a doctor, and has an office, and some practice. He has a young wife, and a child a year old. Trouble in the family began because the doctor lived somewhere else more than he did at home. Very naturally there were warm discussions upon the question where he spent his off nights. One day he picked up his yearling child and took it to tbe house of a friend, and sold all his iurniture and pocketed the proceeds. The wife was thus left without house or home. She went to work for her bread, but she wanted her child. She found it in its retreat, and forcibly took it from the matron in charge. She afterwards went to the doctor's office and asked him for a very small sum of money for the benefit of the child. Of course he refused to contribute a cent. She then picked up a case of surgical instruments and went and sold it. The doctor had his wife arrested for larceny and thrown into gaol in default of bail. He proposes to prosecute the case for all it is worth, and if he can send his wife to the Penitentiary, it will be cheaper and no less effective than divorce.