The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-30
INFELICIA.
Model Chicago Divorce Cause.-The History
of the Affair,

~ iNShSi ShhChRO Cuse lub IilstOTy
A petition for divorce in the Chicago courts
the other day has developed the following curl
Gus history
In the year 1859 there lived in a Swiss valley
an interesting family of wealth and culture
named Junod. Monsieur Junod found his sole
happiness in lovely daughter named Luce,
who was the most admired belle of that portion
OF the canton. The father, man of stern, soli-
tary nature, the descendant of long line of
men who had exercised the rights of lordship
over all the beautiful vineyards that bloomed
beneath them, though somewhat fallen from the
state OF his foretathers, still nourished feelings
of ancestral pride.
In some of the merry-makings peculiar to the
wine-bearing districts, in which, by the time
honored requirements of tradition, all ranks
meet together in common jubilee, Madlle
LuCie met with young man named Gustave
Flotrou, of person handsome and attractive, and
by trade n matchmaker. The abnegatiOn of
everything like social distinction enabled Flo
trou to approach the lady with familiarity to
which he would otherwise never have presumed
The lady fell blindly in love with the humble
matchmaker. He, flattered by the preference
dazZled by her beauty, and, not improbably
still more strongly attracted by her fortune
ardently reciprocated.
The first meeting was followed by many others,
of course clandestine. Her fancy, united to the
neXperience of girhood, gave him every oppor-
tunity to press his suit, and he became her nc
cepted lover. The father still supposed that his
OaugltCr knew no love DuJ JHG aIeCJlO0 Oh n
daughter to her father. The day of awakening
came at last, and the daughter was forbidden,
under the severest threats, again to see the
audacious aspirant. The conflict between love
and duty ended as such warfares commonly re-
sult-Cupd carried the day. The lady was pos
sessed of a fortune of seventy-ive thousand dol
lars in her own right, which made her compare
lively easy.
SO one night she made moonlight fitting
with her swain. TO avoid the unpleasant cir
cumstances of living in a country where all
the facts were known, where she might any time
meet her offended father, they determined to
come to America. Nine years elapsed, and the
man for whom she gave up ALL instead of being
the devoted affectiOnate husband she expected
to find, proved, according to her allegations, to
be a brute and a sot His lavish expenditure and
reckless pursuit of all kinds of pleasure gradually
dissipated the noble fortune she had brought him.
Valuable silverplate which she had also possessed
was conveyed by him to the silversmiths, and
converted into funds to pamper his appetites.
The wifes wardrobe and private jewels even,
were appropriated with brutal disregard of the
feelings of her who had sacrificed everything to
his pleadngs. One stroke of ill-treatment fol-
lowed another in swift succession until Mrs.
FlotrOu, outraged beyond endurance, and fear
ful of personal violence to herself and her child,
a lovely little girl of eight years, was forced to
have recourse to the final remedy. And thus,
yesterday morning, only day or two after the
anniversary of her marriage nine years ago, Il
petition for divorce was filed in this city.