Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-06-19

AER WILLIAM DESKlNS-Sir Please take no.
YE tee, that intending 10 petition the General Assem-
bly, Of Virginia for divorce from you have flied in the
Clerks Office of the Circuit Superior Court OF Law
and Chancery for the county Of Tazewell, statement
of the upon which said application is ounded and
| shall al the next September term Of said Circuit Su
perior Court of Law end Chancery for Tazewe ,ounty
ask the said Court Jury to be impanneed 10
ascertain the facts set forth in said statement which
statement of facts in substance and 10 The effect fol-
lowing:
tina, on the 9th day of January 1891 she he sub
scrber) iuternarred with the said William Deskins, she
then being not quite fourteen years old that she had
been raised ghbor to the said William Deskns,
tina, they were blood that the character Of the
said William al that period fair and unsuilied That
they were married with the full and free consent their
parents and friends that al the time Of their marriage
the said William Drskins was very young, perhaps moi
twenty years Of agr his character not liked nor form
ed Shortly after their marriage as aforesaid. the said
William Deskns into the State Of Ohio, rs he
pretended, with view 10 examine the county, for The
purpose Of removing thereto that while he was there,
he was charged with passing counterfeit bank notes,
ana was a'lese" upT ,r sa1 .:i 80, aa gave and
failed 10 appear. iorei,iDg his recognznnce. Short
" after, he returned to the county OF farewell and
presently removed with your petitioner To the State nf
illinois Not long after removing 10 the Slate Of Hi.
nuis the said William Deskns left home and was absent
for such length Of time that she came 10 the concIu
sion that he dead so much SO, that she wrote 10
her father in the county Of THZewel her torlun and
se1ab. condition. and asking his aid and protection il
vas promptly afforded, and she returned under his pro
lection to the county of aze well, where she has resided
ever since" On her way home To her fathers, as last
ire nonrd, and when within Il day or two Journey OF
the same she WAS Informed Of the fact that the said
William Drskins not dead, hut that he had been
charged with the crime of larceny the Stale of In
diana had been convicted thereof and sentenced 10 The
pruentiarv of said State. and was then an Inmate of
the said institution, having been sentenced thereto for
the period of years, which she afterwards ascertain
ed 10 be true that she understands he was convicted
under the name Of Benjamin Oney-that he was arrest
ed in the State uf Ohio under The Of William Sell
lcrs
"{jron the marriage before stated, the said William
Deskns in the possession Of property amounting 10
nnr thousand dollars thereabnus, and The petitioners
father advanced 10 her, property OF various kinds, land,
&c, wurlh estimated al $1,000: al of which money
and property the said William Deskins wasted previous
to the removal TO Illinois: and upon their starting 10 H.
ups, her father again set them up BY advance mcnt
Of property. which the said William Deskins Likewise
wasted and lost.
"Durinr her marriage. and throughout The time Of her
living with the said William De.klns his wife, she
always conducted herself as wife should. ard IN all
things enGravnred TO render him happy that PRIOR 10
the time she last him, she had borne him two chill.
drrn both that hen he left her, stated before,
in the Slate of Illinois she IN that situation that no
husband could would leave the helpless wife in. and
that among strangers that not long after he left her,
she had 10 him another child, a daughter.
"Snce the petitioners Tszewell, and since
the time for which the said William Dpskins sent
10 the Peni,cn'iary of Indiana has expired she has
ceved two letters from the said VIM Deskns announc
ing his intention not to return 10 her in Virginia: and
she charges tha, he has wholly abandoned her
And al said Court you are required to attend
REBECCA DESKlNS.
Copy-Tese, G. w G. BROWNE.
D. c. c. S. L. i, Oh for Ta.e,oeA.
Tayeweli county June l. lS3S 7-wIw