Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-18
A LIVELY WIFE,
Who Governs Her HuabRnd with
HAtohela, Axer, swords Rnd Other
Small Arms.


Hatohela, Axer, swords ANA Other
Small Arms.
st. Louis Paper.l
Theodore Bryant commenced an
action in the Circuit Court yester-
day, asking to be divorced from his
wife, Sarah Bryant, and if the as
sertion on which he bases his case
are true, she is a woman of re-
markable versatility and resources
in her peculiar line. The plaintiff
states that he was married to de-
fendant on the third day of March,
1864, at Danville, ILL.,, and lived
with her until about November 3,
1877, about which time, regardless
of her duties to him as a wife, she
began to treat him in an excessive
ly cruel and barbarous manner, in
such manner as to endanger his
llfey her i'll treatment commencing,
however, as early as 1865, when at
Williamstown, Ind; she was in the
habit of nightly retiring to bed
with plaintiff accompanied by
hatchets, axes, knives, swords and
bludgeons and other dangerous in
Struments of death and destruction
to the great terror and danger of
plaintiff; that at st. Louis during
the winter of 1867 she struck at
him with an iron poker and would
have killed or bodily injured him
if he had not warded off the blow
and received it on his left arm,
whereby the arm became black and
blue, and was believed to have been
broken, that during the summer of
1877 she frequently threatened to
kill him, and offered to carry out
her threats if he did not leave his
own house; on one occasion she
threatened to cut plaintiffs "black
heart out" with a butcher knife;
that shortly after her marriage she
went, without the consent of plain
tiff, and lived at the house of an
uncle Of hers by marriage, a wild
over, and well known to be q map
of dissoIute and immoral habits;
that she has repeatedly and publicly
stated aud written that she did not
love plaintiff-that she loved an
either man, who was rich and Able
to take care of her much better
than her hpsband-that she would
always love himj that this man
was married aud his wife miserable,
and she was glad of it; that she
has prevented plaintiffs relations
from visiting him; that she has on
several occasions broken up his
business byoutrageous behavior and
annoyance; that she visited places
where he was employed and caused
him to be discharged by bis en-
ployers; that by her display of tenn
per and belligerent conduct, she
compelled him to move from one
house to another and from one
neighborhoOd to smother; that
about seven months after her mar
riage, sbe being with child, without
proper cause and against the wish
Of plaintiff, who warned her of her
precarious condition, she went to
visit another uncle of hers, and
having to travel about nine miles
over Q rough road, a miscarriage
ensued, on one occasion in a fit of
anger she broke a coal oil lamp, and
then told plaintiff she did not care
q damn and only wished she had
broken it over his head she threw
a cup and saucer at a lady friend
while at tea. = : = The peti-
tion enumerates other things tend
ing to show the violent disposition
Of defendant of the same tenor as
the above. One child named Beulah
has been born of the marriage,
Plaintiff asks to he divorced and
have the custody Of the child,