St. Landry democrat., 1879-09-13
Married mt Fifteen Years.
DIVORCED. REMARKED AND SEPARATED ]
AGAIN BEFORE slNTEEN.
louisville POST

louisville POST
A very singular case OF marriage
and divorce transpircd in this city
within few months, the parties being
Mrs. Joe Dra@O, nee Miss Lizzie Rompf,
and Joe Drago.
Lizzie Rompf, young German girl
up to the time Of her marriage lived
with her parents, on Brent street. Her
father is an industrious tanner, and
Miss Lizzie was lively, pretty, fifteen
year old girl at the time of her mar
riage to Drago is a swartly, dwarlish
Italian of twenty two, whose Occllpa-
ton has been TO peddle ice cream
around the streets III IL hand-cart, and
to rouse the echoes and the iDdi@na-
ton Of the citizens with a tin horn. In
some way he became acquainted with
Miss Lizzie, and whether by virtue OF
the tin horn, the lcc-cream OK his per
sonal charms, after short courtshir he
married her. This took place about Il
year ago.
The marriage was with the consent
Of tho BRIDES parents, and the couple
Immediately went to housekeeping.
But their married life had been OF but
two or three months DURATION, when
tliscord, worse than Il tin horn, began
to sound between them. The lynx
eyed Italian began to get jealous OF his
youthful wife, and many a quarrel was
the result Mrs. DraSo also found that
DeudlinG ice-crcam was not very llt-
cratiye business, and her husband con-
tributed scarcely anything to her sup
port.
Finally, in an angry moment Drago
drew his pistol on his wife, which
frightened her so that she went home
to her mother and Immediately institu-
ted a suit for divorce. The case mean
dered in the usual way through the
courts, and six weeks ago divorce
was granted.
Meantime the cx-AIrs. Draso re
manned at home. Her industrious faith
er wanted her to go out to work, hnt
she declined to do so, and a domestic
schism was the result.
Ever after his wife left him, Drago
followed her and lost no opportunity
to be with her. He loved her and con-
stantly begged her to come back and
live with him. and finally one day,
meeting her away from her parents,
Who had been keeping a close watch
upon her, he cloGucntly urged her to
elope with him. She, thinking she
must choose between marrying and
working tor living, consented. This
was only three weeks after the divorce
had been granted. The couple went
over to Jetfcrsonyille and proceeded to
a magistrates office. They were so
anxious to be man and wife again that
they misrepresentcd the place OF their
residence, claiming to be from distant
part of the country. The girl affirmed
that she was grass widow, and there
was no trouble in getting license.
And so she was married to the little
. Italian for the second time all within
year.
The doubly married pair returned to
Louisville, and again attempted to
keep house Drago's old jealousy re-
turned, and he kept his wife locked up
in the house, not permitting her to see
any one.
1 Their honeymoon lasted but a week,
for, at the end of that time, the bride
escaped her husband again, and went
back home. She called on her lawyers,
who had procured her divorce, and
wanted them to get her another, but
this was impossible, as two divorces
can not be granted for the same causes.
This second separation occurred three
weeks ago.
Drago was very much enraged at
/ lHiS HCtlUH Oh HIS "ilt, dIu pCliC' ms
her mother to have been the instigator
Of the matter, he was violent i'll his
; language toward the latter, He was
going TO get even With the woman yet,
he said, and his threats so frightened
old Mrs. Rompf that she sWore out Il
peace warrant against him.
Drago was put under bonds to keep
the peace. He has since left the city.
Mrs. Drago is now living with her
parents, sorrowful only because she
can not get another divorce from her
spouse.
To be married twice to the same
man, and to be separated from him twice,
and all before reaching sixteen years,
is an experience which falls to the lot
OF but few young girls:
i second volume of the story may
yet he developed, for Drago is full Of
love and danger and Mrs. ID. is very
unccrtaiu.
PAINLESS UEArH.- In one of his
lectures Prof, Tyndall spoke Of the
great probability that entire absence OF
pain accompanied death by lightning.
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