She Said He Beat Her. Then He Mortgaged the Farm.

Constancia Gladinowski commenced an action for divorce against her husband, Isadore Gladinowski, a vegetable grower at Seattle, and included in her complaint C. Friend and Degginger, doing business as the Friend-Degginger Company. At the same time she filed her complaint she secured a restraining order against her husband and the Friend-Degginger Company to prevent them from transferring a note and mortgage and other personal property which she claims was transferred by the husband to the company in order to defraud her of her marital rights. The restraining order was signed by Judge Osborne yesterday, and he set the hearing for August 4.

In her complaint the wife states that she and Gladinowski were married in Jersey City, N.J., August 4, 1875, and have no children. She accuses him of brutal treatment, even to violence, beating her, threatening to kill her, and generally rendering life unendurable. She says they jointly own a team of horses, a cow, about ninety hogs, poultry and a growing crop of vegetables on a five-acre tract at Georgetown, in South Seattle, leased from William Deder. The husband is in possession of the ranch and property, and the wife says she is without means, and by reason of injuries inflicted by him is unable to work and is dependent on charity for a living. She believes that he has money secreted, and knows that he is in constant receipt of money from his daily sales of vegetables.

She alleges that about November 24, 1893, the husband fraudulently, under the name of Gladens, executed to the Friend-Degginger Company a chattel mortgage on all of the personal property except the growing crops, giving a note secured by the mortgage and apparently due one year after date. She accuses her husband of using threats and force to compel her to join in this note, and says the mortgage is without consideration and is believed to be a fraud by all parties concerned. Fearing that they would transfer the note and mortgage if they learned of her action for divorce, she secured the restraining order at the same time she filed her complaint. She now wants a divorce; all the property; alimony pending the suit; and cancellation of the note and mortgage.