The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-17
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A Husband Found, after Thirty Years.
AAosence-Recenstruction and Second

- $500 ~SS'oAA O0N 0CCUUu
De'ertion.
A bill for divoa9e has been fled in the
Circuit. Court ofCook Co., Illinois. 81
(Athsrine 1gain} John. Spcllman which
Fpresentssm stly nn5lsnaI features Tie ara
peculiarly y tinkfhe petition asks not onIv
for divorce but6&n Injunction to restrain
the husband in the use of thirty Thousand
dollars worth of property, and a ne e:Eeat
republica, restraining him under bonds to
remain in his adopted state-Illinois.
The greater peculiarly is presented in
the<biH Hseik if the petition Be tine and
being under oath it is go to be considered)
the ease presents 10 -.hsief the history OF
several checkered livesw The bill alleges
thatthe parties were married during the
year 1880, at Meguglemuce, in the county
of Mayo, Ireland. They lived together
until some day in May, 1885. The five
years Of their married live resulted in the
birth of three children, Patrick P. SPELL
man, aged IS; Bridget Craig (wife Of Owen
Craig, and now "a years of age, and Mich
ael Spelman, aged 80, years. About
the time of the birth ofthe last child it is
charged that the defendent absconded
from his native soil, taxing his way to
some land unknown to bis family. Two
years after his wife received. a letter from
John, renting to her twenty dollars
Eighteen months after she acknowledged
thc'receipt of fifteen dollars accredited to
the iaithless. John by the hand of his
brother Patrick. This last remittance was
made from New York. It is charged in
this connection that the respondent, having
left his, home and three small children and
a wife, leaving but twenty dollars in mon
ey, and about fifty deHars' worth of furni-
ture, the amount RENTED was insufficient
to the support of the family.
No further communication was had be-
tween the two branches Of the family until
the year 1856. In the year 1856 the deser-
ted wife says she came to New York. She
stayed there some time and migrated to
Philadelphia, as she claims in search Of her
husband and livelihood. She subsequent
ly came to. this country, and on the twelfth
day OF October 1865, her eldest son saw
his father in the county of Stephenson,
Illinois, a wealthy farmer, with a second
wife and family of two children to assist
him in the performance of his agricultural
labdrs. The second wife is charged to be
one Sarah Austin, known as Sarah Spell
man or Mrs: Spellman, and with her he is
said to have lived twenty-eight years, two
children having been the result of the big
amous connection.
This discovery being made, ccrrespon-
dence ensued between the parties interested
in the first marriage and the violator of the
martial bond. 1t resulted in his visiting
Philadelphia, where he met (as is charged)
his wife, on the thirteenth day of January
1866. He made protest of renewed affec-
tion-of a revived love, and she alleges
that believing his protestations, she con-
sentcd. on condition that he would have,
never more, aught to do with Sarah Aus
tin, to pardon him his delinquincies, and
receive him to husbands share IN her
affection and home. A further moving
reason to this condonement is alleged to be
the fact that the defendant had property
and the wife had none.
Having reunited their fortunes the par
ties lived together after separation of over
thirty years, for two score days, and then
it is alleged, the respondent proposed to
return to his farm in Stephenson county, to
close up his affairs and sell off his property.
Confding in his integrity, his wife charges
that she let him BECOME, and since that
time she never saw ''hide nor hair" of him.
She does charge, however, that her best
information leads her to believe that he re-
turned to Sarah Austin, known publicly as
his wife, and where she charges he commit
ten adultery, and is now living in state
of open violation of the law.
The defendant in this case is represent
ed to be a man of means. His estate is
valued at $4,000. He is said to own
section and a quarter of cultivated land in
Stephenson county, with almost any guam
tity of necessary farming utensils, cattle &c.
The bill is supported by the afhdavits of
the two sons of the parties, and the injunc
ton and writ both issued.