The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-04-20
The Spring Season Fairly Open
ed and the Divorce Mar.
ket Booming.
Salient Points Of Some of the
Conspicuous Suits
Filed.
An Interesting Glance st q Trio Of
Unfortunate Matrimonial
Knots.

tent Perhaps there isn't The RAxOO
doesn't pretend to know Lonsiellov writes
that in the spring the young man lightly
turns TO thoughts Of love. IL would seem
that old married ,~ople At that season
turn to thoughts of divorce. Hut the prov
ince Of a reporter is not 10 deal with spec-
ulations on The Influences IL the seasou..
Hard facts Arc the maiiera with which be-
hss TO do. Stubborn facts they sre. rome-
times Facts hard to get, and facts dan
g~rous to publish.
But 40 much by way oi prelude. With
the clerk of the circuit court Of Pets,s
county, there have i~-p flied within very
short time past, no l~ss ihsn
FIVE SUITS FOR DIVORCE,
al by parties living within tie limit al
the city al S-sialis. and IL wo;.ii SEEN thai
there Is sinos; All epidemic III divorces
ringing heEe- To" 81 ,h~se c:se- have al
ready met With publication, and il IL only
with the last three, all IL them filed within
the lsst three days, that the readers oi
the BAzoo will have Ia do this morning.
The tr-i ii there cases IL 3 somewhat e.
sravAtr,! one. shd in view vi facts which
have already found pr--~n'aii..n in thee
columns il would SEEM to ne one I'll the
most justly GROUNDED appeals for SEPARATION
ever brought Ia the attention vi y judicial
tribunal. I, 10 that Of
Britt ". BRITT.
The plaintiff is Mrs. Mary Britt and
the defendant. Singleton Britt . yell
known resident and former livery stable
man Of this city. The petition IL mild in
form and hardly sets out n strong . cs~e
as las will be seen from the republication
made beio~D the plaintiff might have
made. The petition simply states that the
plaintiff. Mary Britt, w.s married 70 the
defend, at ia the county Of P.iiis, on shs
18th OF August, 1855. That he has for
some years ps., neglected her and left her
without support. Accused her Of imProp.
or reiations with other men, Shaken his
list repeatedly in her face and on .unsiry
occasions
ORDERED HER To LEAVE
HE hous- For this abuse, which plaintiff
makes affidavit 4. without cause or provo
cation upon her part. che prays IN order o.
cour, annul,ns the matrimonial tie an
granting her n separate maintenance.
This il no; the frs, time that Singleso,
Britt has hem in trouble from . simiia
cause. On the 18th If April, 1879, . sun.
day. and just seven years ago yesterday
the BAz.o Published an article under III,
head al "Eisamy." together with dccu
ments sub-tantisring the facts. whirh r.
ferre,i e. Ihi- msn Britt. although n,
names we're used a, the time, an ~xlrsc
| from which re- ais NJ iollows:
On THE IRA DAY III NAY, ls6s.
this man. wLo is middle aged and has :
girl in Ba;e>viile, AIkxnsas. lie represent
ed himself ,s widowrr ." The Sir,'s p .ren,
whose cOn-rut ~s- neces-asy To- the mar
riAge. she t-ins under aye. They lives
| together ~ man AID wife, ,a- latter nevsl
doubling ne vas what ne pI~ienies:
! About six,-~i. months after their insrriaEt
CHILD WAS BORN
! 10 them. and their union -eemed = happ,
one. 4; length, the t:ue chsIscter OF Oh,
man Was reverted ." the yir!-w,fe, wh,
caught him ia adultery With a female in
nate "f ti,e i,mily.
Shortly after This event
HE Detected HEE
and returned Z" his a. her ~ise ard family
VITO ali this lime resided in Prliis county
ignorant %; hi- .s-e c.'ndust. Tie siesertes
Wii. with her Scung bale vent cut into ih'
~orid 10 work for her support which tim
IN ,G had deprived hei ri, and ioe iwo yean
she labored hard near Bsi~sviiie, Ark. il
| the vicinity al which she hsd been married
TINE PASSED.
hut not word dld she hear of the vherea
oOnis of her husband, ill accident threw
her ia p&s-ession of the isc;s that her hus
bsnds wxs living ia Sedsiis with wife 4
whom ne had been married heior- she -,
burn. Satisfying ber-elf that he Wa in ihi'
city, she obisine,i the mean. ior her pas
sage here, where she arrived about thres
weeks ago, aud put up At the Ives honse
occupying room No. ..
sHE HAD An INTERVIEW
With him, and remained in the city abou,
two day. Al this interview he xcxnoWl
edged all, called hes his dearest pei" and
treated her IN the most .fiectiona,e man
ner. The mans 6rst wife here wss ig
al A.. -.
remained M the hotel here during her shor,
-tsy, and she did not wish tn publicly FL
Pose him.
THE PROOFS
81 her msrraae are incontestabls, and ~
hold Others than she brought which csnno
be disputed.
Then follows copy Of the snarrisg'
certificate III the delu.iei Ark snsss
girl, together wilh a worn statement o
the oficistinx minister. There wss nu
doubt OF BIRTHS gull, but fer .ome r~as"E
he wss never pro--e0ird snd the mst,~
"a. suffered To- drop.
4 lev years ago b~ discontinued hu-i
mes ia this city sni has ,,nr~ i~~n b.s'
only nj Intervals. IA MS in one al to- =.
v-riodic,i returns ths; deputy sheriff
H-wrti found ham "n frinsy i,.t m,
-erv-d . copy ii the p-i,,is.n an "i'"
Britt turned pale ~ u ghost when h- s1s
1t, believing i, prohshiy a warrant lar hi'
arrest TO bigamy, sud -. unable Il
stretch ont Ii. Ia ,nj &c the pip-r. VA-n
the sheriff, l-ii-sing h- refused ." srcrI.'
service, -t,rt-i ." r-s.i the PAPER.
HE DEPENDENT 4AsPiD
M ! vail take ~" .nd r-ix.nx IL ia
a tren,bi .ny u end. hurried away.
II hr. b-en said ny persons ~ho
claim 20 knox. that Britt has cun
rHcted ~i.-~her. -ii,i ,ap:i.r i!i.s,I ~ NJ
ri.xe. and that hi. absence from this city
are for ,hc purpose OF waiting wife" No.
3. The BAzoo however knows nothing Of
,hi. story hut rumor and eau in no Gay
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