SUICIDE PREVENTED...Melvin Albumius [sic.] SEIELSTAD, a printer, has six children, the oldest being 12 years of age, but he asks the court for the custody of all and recites many reasons why his wife, Pearl M. SEIELSTAD, should not have them. His complaint states that his wife shut herself in a room with the children, turned on the gas and tried to kill herself and them, and was only prevented from doing so by a relative who smelled the gas, called neighbors and effected a rescue. During 1918 a number of things happened that are cited as extreme cruelty--that she beat plaintiff whith her fists; called him names that are often heard in gold-rush mining camps, ordered her oldest son to get his baseball bat so that she could kill her husband; had him arrested on a charge of failure to provide, the case being dismissed by the court; issued fictitious checks, and accused defendant of being party to the transactions, and then admitted in court that he had nothing to do with them, and that, finally, on Dec. 9, 1920, she packed her trunk and left for parts unknown.