Dr. Fall Spent Christmas With Another Woman, His Wife Charged

Mrs. Sarah S. Fall yesterday made answer to Dr. E. W. Fall's suit for divorce and filed a cross-complaint, in which she accuses him of several specific acts of adultery and asks that she be given the decree of divorce. She names as co-respondent Maud Williams, with whom she says the doctor has long been criminally intimate and has had many clandestine meetings, and also accuses him of drunkenness and cruelty and of failing to support her respectably. Mrs. Fall says that on Christmas day, 1893, the doctor left her alone at their home, sought out Miss Williams and dined with her. She says that Miss Williams gave him her photograph, which he kept concealed in his office. She also says that Dr. Fall and the co-respondent met in the former's office at night in a clandestine and improper manner, and that when the husband was called to account he sneeringly told her that she need have no fear of Miss Williams' influence with him, as her mother was the keeper of a low dive in this city. Mrs. Fall also alleges that Dr. Fall made an indecent assault upon a young woman in his office and attempted to have criminal relations with her, and that at another time he attempted to assault another young woman. For a long time, she alleges, he kept up a secret correspondence with another woman of bad reputation named Mrs. Frank Purren, writing her many loving and affectionate letters and receiving from her many presents, including a photograph of the woman's little girl. The husband is further accused of being a victim to intoxicating liquors, and, she says, that as a result he has become rough, abusive and quarrelsome in his disposition. She says he has treated her in a shocking manner, and only a short time ago came home one night in a drunken condition, and, while she was asleep in her bed, seized her by the hair, dragged her about the room and was abusing her when others came to her assistance and rescued her from his hands. She alleges that he has failed to support her, and has not given her sufficient money to dress respectably, wasting his earnings in playing dice and other games and in the purchase of presents for lewd women and whisky. The wife says the community property consists of a fine farm in Hamilton county, Neb. Mrs. Fall says that after this property had been acquired, together with two other valuable pieces of property in Aurora, Neb., her husband desired to become a physician and surgeon, and in order to get money to educate himself borrowed large sums on one of the pieces of property, on which was erected a handsome dwelling house. Later this property was sold, and the other piece mortgaged so that all of his expenses could be paid. By the expenditure of these sums, it is claimed by the wife, her husband received a splendid education, which enabled him to make money rapidly and easily, and to support himself in comfort and affluence. The education, the wife states, is an asset of great and inestimable value to him in which she can in no wise share after the decree of divorce has been granted. She says he has a large number of notes, accounts and claims for services rendered, which are of great value, but their exact worth does not appear. She asks that she be given the Nebraska property.