Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-01-22

caRlsrIAncY's SIDE.
OF the Story of Marriage Into Which he
Was Betrayed.


In answer to the second part in her
bill, / admit the marriage between N.Y.
self and the said complainant, as stated
in her said bill, but ] solemnly assert
that said marriage took place ut her own
instance, and that l was led into it by
her skillfully turning what was intended
rs mere compliment to her into pro-
position fol marriage; which, at the first
moment suspected she intended to con-
strue into such propositions, promptly
apologized for, when she promptly de-
clured her wish that should marry her,
to which [ did not as ent until after had
honestly and earnestly, on several differ
ent occasions, endeavored to convince her
Of the unfitness of such marriage, on ac-
count of the differences in onr respective
ages, but that finally yielded to her
solicitations upon the repeated assurance
that she loved mo better than any other
man, winch assurance she volunteered to
declare to me was false the first moment
we were alone in our rooms in Philadel-
phia, the first night after the wedding,
and before she had taken off her hat,
avOwing her love for another man, to
whom she saii she had haaH engaged,
and declaring that on the morning Of the
wedding she had tainted ut the mention
of his name, and that she had periured
herself in her marriage vow, demanding
an immediate divorce: and upon my tell
ing her that there was no gr0aai for di-
vorce, and that none could be had, she
seemed like q manlac.
In answer to the third point in her so.
called bill, ] deny that she has at all
times since her marriage been to me a
faithful and cbedicnt wife. or that she
has at all times performed toward me
the duties dcvolving upon her as such,
protesting and averlng, as l here protest
and aver, that within month after said
marriage she commenced and entered in
to various scandalous and improper in
trignes with other men, and kept up Sc
cret and improper correspondence with
them. especially with one Frank L. An
derson, which she kept up down to about
the time she left for Washington, and
that she had been guilty during said
marriage of undue and scandalous fami-
liaritics, aud, believe, adultery, not on
ly in Washington and New York, but in
Lima. Peru, and in the steamers sailing
to and from Callao and Panama, and
others going from Aspinwall to New
York, with several different men; that
she has on many occasions. during said
marriage, aud without the slightest prov
ocation, said to me that she wished
would die, and that 1 was the only OBJ.
stacle to her happiness often screaming
aloud, and saying 1t was her intention to
cause the impression that was abusing
her, and that she intended to make cause
for divorce, though none existed in fact !;
that she refused to return with me to
my house i'll Lansing, Michigan, when
she left there with me in November, 1875
for Washington, and has persisted in that
refusal ever since, by which / was com.
PEELED to abandon my home residence in
Lansing: that she has upon two occa.
sions-one in Washington and one al
Lansing, in 1S77-wilfnlIy produced up
Oh herself miscarriages ana abortions
and, finally, that she has failed in the
performance Of the duties of wife to me
by committing the crime of adultery. as
charged in my petition or bill filed
! against her in this cOurt.