Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-02-01
GEO. n. DALE,
attorney for P!E.
PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

PETITION FOR DIVORCE.
STATE OF VERMONT, Esser County, IS.
LIZZIE Vs. NIE"ls Ma nssS4 Tet GSq ig Court
HOMER Ii. LEwIsS
Whereas, Lizzie n. Lewis, at the September
Term, A. D., 1872, of Essen County Court, fled
her petition setting forth IN substance That
on the Goth day of September, A. D., 1868, at
Brighton, in the same Essex County, she was
duly Joined in marriage to Homer II. Lewis,
of the same Brighton, agreeably to the laws
of this State, by the Rev. Eli q. Smalley, n
minister of the gospel who had legal authority
to solennizc said marriage, and that yourpetl-
toner lived with him the said Homer II
Lewis, as his lawful wife, at said Brighton
little more than year next following the
time OF said marriage, when the said Homer
ii. Lewis left the country Tor parts unknown.
And your petitioner further represents that
ever since hey said marriage with the said
Homer H. Lewis, she has faithfully perform.
ed towards him all the duties of Il wife And
your petitioner further represents that the
said Homer H. Lewis heretofore, to wit: On
the first day of October a. d., 1868, and on di'
vers other times and days between that day
and the first day of April, 4. D., 1870. at said
Brighton, committed the crime of Adultery
with one AnEeIine sawyer, and with one Mary
Bacon, and with divers other lewd persons,
and that the fact Of said adultery never camo
to the knowledge of the said Lizzie n Lewis,
and your petitioner and said Homer Ii. have
never lived together as man and wife since
she learned the fact of said adultery. And
your petitioner still further represents that
about the time and just before the said ii omer
ii. Lewis left the country, as atoresaid,to W ut:
on the first day of April, A. d., 1870, and OH
divers times and days just previous thereto,
and while the petitioner and petitionee were
living together as man and wife, as aforesaid,
ut the same Brighton, he, the said Homer H.
treated yourpetitioner with intolerablc sever
ity by then and their threatening her, beating
her and terrifying her in various ways, by
torcibly ejectiug her from the room III which
they lived, by forcing her to tine cellar door
and threatening to hurl her into the cellar, by
tearing the furniture in pieces and hurting the
fri gmentS about the house and at your petit
TONER. Since which time your petitioner and
said Homer Ii. Lewis have not lived together
as man and wife, rs by said petition on hle
appears; and praying for Fill OF Divorce
dissolving and annulling the bonds OF matri-
mony between her and the said Homer Ii.
Lewis, and that she may resume the name by
which she was known previous to her said
marriage with the pctitlonCe. which was Liz
Zie n. Cheney, and us III duty bound will ever
pray.
And whereas tits made to appear to the
Court here. that the said Homer IL. Lewis has
had no personal notice of the tendency of
this suit, and that the said petltionee is resid-
ing out of this State, SO that a subpoena can
not be served on him. Therefore it is order
cd by the Court. that said suit be continued to-
the next term thereof, to pc held ut Guildhau,
in said County of Essex, on the Second Tues
day of March, a. D., 1878, and that said Homer
II. Lewis be notified by publishing this no.
tice, together with the substance of snid pc-
paper published at Guildhall, in the County
OF Essex, three weeks successfully, the last
publication to be at least twenty days before
said Second Tuesday of March, 1873
Dated at Guildhall this goth day OF Jan.
uary, 1873.
CHARLES E. BENTON,
GEO. y. DALE, Clerk
Attoraey for Petitioner.