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- 1910 Census, T624, 22nd Ward Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Roll 971, ED 592, SH 13B.
1419 8th Avenue, 154/317
Tafel, Charles H. Head M W 25 M1 2 NY NY NY Physician Line 66
Rita Wife F W 22 M1 2 0 0 Nebraska France Canada Line 67
Washington Post, 06 November 1914, Washington, D.C.
"FORCED TO TAKE DRUGS" - Wife Says Doctor Compelled Her to Take Morphine.
Twice Made Fiend and Twice Fured, She Testifies in New York Court - Declares Husband Induced Her Not to Tell Callers on Telephone That She Was Married to Him.
New York Nov. 5 - Mrs. Rita Tafel's story of how her husband, a properous Brooklyn physician, forced her to become a victim of the morphone habit by giving her injections of the drug against her will, won her a decree of separation and $12 a week alimony in Justice Blanchard's part of the supreme court today.
Forcing of the drug upon her, Mrs. Tafel testified, was but one of a number of cruelties practiced by her husand, Dr. Charles F. Tafel. Young, pretty, and stylishly clad, Mrs. Tafel talked unhesitatingly on the witness stand. "Last fall," she testified, "the doctor came home late and we quarreled. He bared my arm and tried to inject morphoine into it. I screamed, but, he put a pillow over my mouth and forced me to submit. Finally I became addicted to the use of the drug rather tthan quarrel constantly with my husband. When I refused to take morpohine my husband would beat me into submission. I finally fled to the home of my mother, and got rid of the habit, only to fall again into its grip when I returned to live witith my husband. After I went back to his home in Brooklyn the doctor refused to allow me to enter the house until I agreed not to say I was his wife when people called up on the telephone. Some woman was calling him up, and I think she believed my husband was an unmarried man."
"Did he use the drug himself?" asked William Murphy, her lawer. "yes, he took it in my presence," said Mrs. Tafel. Mrs. Agens Provost, Mrs. Tafel's mother, told of a conversation she had with Dr. Tafel in which the physician said his wife "was not the proper mate" for him. It was not until Mrs. Tafel was treated in Bellevue that she was cured of the morphine habit, her mother said.
1920 Census, T625, Laurens, Otsego County, New York,
Roll 1255, ED 197, SH 5A
148/151
Tafel, Charles F. Head M W 30 M NY NY NY Physician/General Practice Line 31
Lulu Wife F W 26 M NY NY NY Line 32
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