Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-21
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POMEROY DIVORCED AGAIN.
Publisher and Proprietor

How He and Wis second wife
Enil'd 20 AgTee-PecnIiRriIIcS OF
| Mr. Mark NJ. Pomeroy, proprie-
tor of Pomeroy's Democrat, has
obtained a divorce from his second
wife, Louisa M. Pomeroy, and has
married again. The separation
was decreed by the Probate Court
of Brigham City, Utah, under pc
culiar circumstances. This is Mr..
Pomeroy's second divorce.
Mr.. Pomeroy's second wife, to
whom he was married about six
years ago, was possessed of good
literary taste, much given to poet
ry, and seemed to be more in SYM
pathy with him than his first wife.
Mutual friends at the time of their
union predicted a happy marriage
and companionship. Their pre-
dictions promised to be fulfilled
until about two years ago, when a
disagreement arose between Mr..
Pomeroy and his wife concerning a
desire she expressed to make acting
her profession. To this her hus-
band objected. He declared that
the positions which had to be taken
upon the, stage-especially in the
characters of Romeo and Juliet, the
latter Of which she often assumed
were incompatible, in his opinion,
with those which q domestic wife
should assume. She resented the
imputation, declared he was unrea-
sonably jealous, mistaken in his
idea, and that she was welded to
the life of an actress and could
never leave it. lie asserted that
then she must leave him. She
pleaded with him to no effect, and
then accepted the alternative. The
question then arose of how they
could be lawfully separated. He
could not charge her nor she him,
with infdelity, cruelty, nor any Of
those faults which in Illinois Justify
an action for divorce. They agreed
10 separate, and their six year old
daughter was to remain part of the
time with the father and part with
the mother. The only question
was how the separation could be
made binding.
In this emergency Mr. Pomeroy
consulted a lawyer in Chicago, who,
in looking over the famous Poland
bill passed June 20, 1874, discov-
cred the following:
"Section III. + Probate
courts in their respective counties
(of Utah) shall have jurisdiction of
suits of divorce for statutory causes
concumently with the district
courts"
In looking over the acts of the
Territory Of Utah relating to bills
Of divorce, it was discovered that
section 2 declared that the petition
for bill could be made by "any
person who is q resident of the ter.
ritory, or who wishes to become
one" and in the same section it
was provided, among the causes for
separation, that "when it shall APP
pear to the satisfaction and convic-
tion of the court that the parties
cannot live in peace and union to-
gether and that their welfare re.
quires a separation" then "a decree
Of divorce shall ensue.
After this discovery, the case was
comparatively easy. Mr.. Pomeroy
and his wife made the necessary
affidavit that they would like to re-
side in Utah, and he then began a
suit for divorce in the Probate
Court of Brigham City, Utah, on
the ground that they could not live
peaceably together. The law re-
quiring a months advertisement in
a newspaper was complied with,
and the announcement was made in
the semi-weekly journal Of the place,
which has circulation of one hum
drsd and fifty copies. BY arrange
ment the suit went by default, and
a divorce was granted.
a friend of the lawyer who con-
Quoted the whole affair is in this
city. He said to u Sun reporter
yesterday, in speaking of the case,
"Therc is no scandal in this d.
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