Margaret A. Winn, through her next friend Romulus W. Moon, seeks a divorce from her husband Pyramus C. Winn. She also asks the court to remove her husband as trustee of her separate estate of twelve slaves, and to grant her custody of their young son. The petitioner claims that her husband, a man addicted to ardent liquors, abused her with language "harsh low vulgar and deeply insulting," that he threatened to cut her throat, and that on one occasion he "Shamelessly & indecently exposed his naked person" to her eleven-year-old daughter by a previous marriage seeking "by persuasive language & conduct to corrupt and debase the morals and chastity of the child." She fled from their home with the children, returning only when Pyramus left for Louisiana. When he returned, she filed suit. A related deposition reveals that Winn, a physician, admitted the attempted rape to his brother in law, but placed the blame on his excessive drinking.
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