Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
MARITAL MISERY DAY.
Unfortunates Who Seek a Legal
AmeIiOratiOn of Woes.
MRS. IsAACS WASVERYAS
James L. Orr Pound Guilty of Flagrant
Crime.
FLORENCE DONALDSON WILL Reform

Judge Slagle, yesterday, for the second
time, refused divorce in the case of Albert
c. Isaacs against Catherine o. Isaacs. The
couple were married in October, 1884. and In
October, 1887, Mr. Isaacs sued for divorce.
He testified that she commenced to abuse
him three months after their marriage, and
her treatment of him was cruel and barbar-
Gus, compelling him to leave her. She beat
him with a poker and her fists and scratched
him, etc. On one occasion she assaulted
him with an umbrella in the Union depot;
another time she used an umbrella on him
on the Seventh street bridge, and once she
chased him on Fifth avenue. He often had
to leave the house at night and sleep at
hotels on account of her abuse, and she would
lock him out at times, and again lock him in
the house.
Mrs. Isaacs in her testimony denied that up
until year or less before the separation there
had been any trouble other than is usual or
common between married people. She denied
the special instances of violence alleged by her
husband, except the occurrences at the U MON
depot and on the Seventh street bridge. She
denied positively having chased him on Fifth
avenue. Other witnesses testified that the
couple lived happily together for three years
after the matter. Mrs Isaacs. it was stated. had
violent temper. He attEibuted her abuse to
groundless jealousy, while she said he paid too
frequent visits to another woman. and that
there had been no trouble until he commenced
that
THEY MET PECULIARLY.
1t was shown that Isaacs became acquainted
with his present wife in Evansville, Ind, year
before his first wife's death. He talked to her
of marriage in anticipation of his first wife's
death, and after she did die they married and
came to Pittsburg
Ind IN, hi int sv,f fr,o0
refusing tie divorce. said that lsaac's conduct
did not show such sensibility that would justify
the belief that his condition would be rendered
intolerable and his life burdensome by any or
dinary conduct of woman. He well knew
before he married her that she had violent
temper, and that she had done nothing that he
did not have reason to anticipate. He had
made a bad bargain. and ought not to ask the
Court to relieve him without clear proof of acts
that he had no reason to anticipate. He should
congratulate himself that his wife had remain
ed virtuous.
Isaac's attorney applied to the court for
reconsideration of the evidence but Judge
Slagle after hearing arguments of the counsel,
decided yesterday that he had no reason to
change his views, and again refused the d.
YOrce,
OTHER UNFORTUNATES.
Mrs. Sophia Hartner yesterday filed her an
swer in the suit for divorce brought against
her by her husband, Nicholas Hartner. She
denied that she had wiltully deserted him, but
that his cruel and barbarous treatment of her
rendered her condition intolerable and com
PEELED her to leave him. Sne asks for jury
trial of the case.
Joseph Ehrstein, formerly Penn avenue
druggist, yesterday filed petition asking for
the discontinuance of the first suit for divorce
that he had brought againt mis- wife. A second
suit had been brought owing to errors in the
first, and it was desired to drop the first one.
The request was granted.
Mrs. Lada ]. Grove yesterday sued for di-
vorce from B. F. Grove, alleging desertIon. She
states that they we're married on January s
1855 and he deserted her on April !, 1887.
Suits for divorce we're entered by Mrs. Emma
Maier against John B. Maier, for desertion;
Florence A. Morris against Frank W. Morris,
desertion; Mary E Grifiths against George L.
Grifiths, desertion: and Mary A Hartman
against Henry A. Hartman. for inrdelity.