The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-07
THE BRUTE CAUGAT.
Rob Lowery, the Wife Beaten, in the Hands
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Rob Lowery, the Wife Beaten, in the Hands
of the Sheriff.
JACKSON, Miss, July 31.-TSpecial.] THE
sheriff of this county was today notified by
Chief of Police Henessy, of New Orleans, of
thescapture in that city of ROD Lowry, wanted
here for the assault on his wife last week.
Deputy Sheriff Childs. accompanied by an
assistant, and armed with the proper papers
from thefgovernor, left here tonight after him.
The charge is assault and battery with intent
toikill and murder.
MRS. LOWRY SUES FOR DIVORCE.
JACKSON, Miss, August 2.-Messrs. Cal
houn 81 Green today filed bill in the chan
Gerry court for Mrs. Lowry for absolute divorce
from her husband, Roderick Lowry, nephew
of Governor Lowry. 1t contains the following
allegations: The complainant shows to the
court that on March %, 1885, she
contracted marriage with the
defendant and the rites of
matrimony were duly solemnized between
them on that day; that size entered into the
contract in the hope of happiness and with the
resolution to act in this relation with all Wifely
fealty, tenderness and devotion and she has,
during its short existence, never failed in any
instance in her steadfast adherence to this pur-
pose, and that she is driven to this appeal to
this court solely because her wrongs have
exceeded the powers of human endurance, and
which wrongs she has never provoked by an I'M
Wlfeiy word OF act that shortly after her said
marriage she discovered that defendant was
thriftless, idle and wandering in his habits,
with. no means and no disposition to earn the
means TO support himself and her, with no
fixed place OF residence, and during the whole
time she lived with him he took her about
from place to place, subsisting on the gener-
ous but ill-afforded hospitality and liberaity
of relatives who had given them no special in
Yltation, thus causing her constant and poig-
nant modification and humiliation; and she
has ascertaiied further that he was
an excessive drinker of intoxicants,
and she charges further that he still
continues TO hGbitually drink. Complainant,
however, could have borne, and would have
borne his thriftlessness and incompetence
Though life rather than apply for divorce,
from doing which she naturally reyolts, and
cheerfully would have worked herself for their
common support, shroGding her domestic trou-
bles from the public, but for the further sad
fate that he exhibited toward he- an ungovern-
able and most ferOcious temper, which kept
her in a constant state of nervous terror and
continued anguish, which can only be under
stood by beng endured: and she charges
that his treatment Of her has been habitually
cruel and lnhuman, marked by personal vio-
lence, SO that she is in perpetual fear of death
at his hands, and she is reduced TO that condi-
ton that she would prefer death to q continu-
ance of marital relations with him. Com
plainant charges that he has repeatedly as
saulted her with the apparent purpose to Stay
her; has often threatened to kill her, and she
believes on two occasions would have
accomplished her death but for
the interference and protection Of his
own relatives, and that when she had
escaped from lin and taken refuge in the
house of one Of his connections. lie found
means Of access 20 her and feloniously assault
TED her, choked her until she was nearly dead,
and then repeatedly struck her on the head
viii. heavy stoneware pitcher and then
heavy bottle, knocking Ler senseless and LAGER
ating and bruising her hands, with which she
tried TO ward off the blows. When she fell sense
less ON the floor, covered with blood, he kicked
her in the side and then fed, leaving her in
such condition that it was uncertain she
would live, since when he has been a fugitive
from justice, III order to avoid arrest by the
officers of the law for this assault. This act
has made his treatment Of her publicly known,
prevented al concealmcnt, ard iustiGes COM
plainant IN this proceeding, not only as a mat
ter OF law, but upon any scruplea of delicacy.
Then follows The usual prayer for divorce
from the bonds Of matrimony.
. Rcd f, Lowry, whose wife IS suing hin, for
2 divorce on account OF inhulnan treatment, is
a nephew Of Governor Bob Lowry and IS a
young mar who has given his family great
deal Of trouble. lie has been in numerous e5-
cauades, and is minus an arm, on account Of
difficulty with negro in Sunflower county a
few years SINE. Since then he shot and killed
n negro in the same county. Tic married Miss
Fannie Heminway, n beautiful and highly cul-
tiIed lady, The marriage was against the sol
emn protests OF her mother, and without her
knowledge, loves dssolute habits being
well lfuDtyu 10 the family.