Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — Curious Divorce Suit. [ARTICLE]

Curious Divorce Suit.

The notorious Hill divorce case has been resumed at Bridgeport, Charles E. Hill, the respondent, having arrived from China. Mrs. Hill sues for divorce on gEounds of cruelty, intemperance and adultery, although as regards intemperance *the husband says he never drank a glass of liquo)*, wine or beer in his life, aud denies that he ever had improper relations with any woman. He had not introduced one A. H. Ladd to her, declaring he uever saw Ladd until he found Mrs. Hill sitting iu his lap at a Boston hotel. Mrs. Hill, the daughter of the late General Adams, of Bridgeport, sayS she rau away to China to marry Hill contrary to her parents wishes; but becoming estranged from her husband after -even years of married life, she returned to America, living most of the lime at Bridgeport, on a $4,000 yearly income from property settled on her by her husband. Mr. Hill says that, after becoming settled in a highly profitable business at Shanghai he offered to release Miss Adams, as he could not come east to marry her, but she wrote she would follow him to the ends of the earth. She spent tbe SI,OOO he sent to her for her wardrobe and used up $1,600 more in furniture and traveling expenses, of which things her parents were ignorant. Hill then furnished a house at Shanghai for her in gorgeous style, one biklstead with its appurtenances selling for sl,- ' 600 three years afterward, when Mrs. Hill visited America against her husband’s wishes. She did not return at the agreed time, aud came home again in two years against the wishes of her husband after no had fitted up another luxurious home for her, and refused to return when he subsequently made two trips to this country to bring her back. Hill Btates he has spent on his wife nearly $300,000, muen of. which he gave her to invest, which she failed to do. He had loaned her father $26,000, for $20,000 of which the General had given notes; these with other private papers had been taken forcibly from bis trunks during his temporary absence from the hotel, after being served with the divorce papers.