The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-04-16
MARITAL MISERY.
A WOful Tale of Domestic In.
felicity and Unhappiness.
Jacob Rudy is Willing to Swear
that in His Case Marriage
is q Failure
His Wife Marries Him fer Pur-
pose and Fails to Accom-
piish 1t,

Pretty nearly every body in Sedalia
used to know Mary j. Sugdon. If
they didn't know her personally they
did by reputation. She bore the name
of being tough, tough, me lud, as
back number beefsteak. She was the
daughter of old George Sugdon the
notorious miser who died three or four
years ago and left property in Sedalia
valued at between thirty and forty
thousand dollars. He was evidently
con to" Mary j. and willed all his
property to nephews living in the
east, with the prOvisO that if his er-
ratio daughter would brace up and
settle down and marry and have an
heir, that heir should have the prop
erty.
Mary realized the fact that she
must become a wife and mother or 90
broke, and it gyes without saying that
she braced up, and it wasn't
long until she wooed and
won the heart of a
farmer named Jacob Rudy, living
near Lamonte. They were married
on the 21st day of August, 1887, and
the fates waited. They are still wait
ing. For time the bliss of married
happiness hung over Jacob and Mary
like: an aurora borealis, and the
nephews in Philadelphia trembled in
their boots. Time rolled on. 1t al
ways does. 1.-The letter that was
longed for never came" and Mary saw
the fortune slipping from her grasp.
and her love for her liege lord and
husband became as cold as a woman's
feet and she made life a burden and
snare for jacob. The end came. 1t
always does. Forbearance ceased to
be virtue and on yesterday Jacob
Rudy, by his attorneys Sangree d
Lamm, commenced
SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
After reciting the date of the mar
riage and telling how he had been
faithful, loving and devoted husband
to Mary, the petition goes on to un-
fold tale of marital woe that would
make a wooden Indian weep. He
AYERS that for a year or more, she has
led him a miserable life by long, con-
tinued and intoIerable course of
conduct, calling him vile and un-
speakabIe names, indulging in violent
fits of anger interspersed with spells
of sulkiness. She had on several
times driven him from the house and
compelled him TO sleep in the barn.
On one occasion she had smashed a
valuable watch belonging to him by
throwing it on the floor. She kept a
loaded revolver in her trunk and fire.
quently threatened to puucture his
cuticle with the contents. She said
she would leave him as soon as she
won certain. law suit which she was
was prosecuting, involving a large
amount of money. She had taunt-
ed him with the fact that she had on
ly married him
FOR A CERTAIN PURPOSE,
which said purpose was connected
with the suit, and that she did not
love him, and threatened to desert |
him if he did not leave her all his
property. Plaintiff further AYERS that
he was compelled to leave her about
the first of March, 1889, since which |
time she has threatened him with |
Matchmaking letters, in which she
charged him with foul and horrible
wickedness and criminalities.
This and much more, does the |
plaintiff allege, the petition forming
quite a vo!uminous roll. The trial
will doubtless prove rich, rare end
racy.