Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-10
X. 4. BAILEY'S STORY.
The Man OF Many Divorce suits Ad-
dresses the Public CONCERNING His
Marital ReIations---strang ACCUSE


Marital ReIations---strange ACCUSE
tions.
Editor ARaus:
Rock ISLAND, Sept. 2, 1889. In con-
nection with divorce Suit / have pend>
ing in the st. Louis court and suit my
wife caused brought In this city and one
in Davenport. il has seemed proper to try
one side of the cases in the newspapers.
Advantage has been taken In my absence
by these articles appearing when l was
five hundred miles from here. and as l
have not seen the articles until today, l
wish to say the statements as they appear
in the Daily Union Of July II last, are
false in nearly every particular. In the
first place the article states married an
estimable young lady OF Muscatine
county, Iowa, with considerable money
and soon spent il in dissipation.
learned sometime after had married her
that had been deceived in many ways.
! not only found that she was almost a
physical wreck and that her constitution
required the immediate and necessary sx-
penditure OF considerable money. but dis
covered that she was not true to me.
The statement that she possessed money
Is false. don't believe she had any part
OF dollar when married her. for pad
for her wedding clothes. She was living
on farm three and half miles below
Buffalo with her mother, brother and two
younger sisters when married her. The
fortune she possessed can be reckoned by
the fact that gave her the money TO
prepare dinner for the minister who
came from Muscatine To perform the GER
emony. IA she did not have the money
herself or credit in Buffalo to get supplies
10 get up dinner. My wife had
nifty acres Of about the hilliest, toughest
brush land that can be found in the state
o. Iowa. She had this all in her own
right, too. She had some liabilities, too,
that were in some few other peoples
rights. These liabilities aggregated, to-
gether with bills paid out for surgical
operation that had TO be performed upon
her, over $500. She did mortgage this
piece OF land and took the money-S440
ouly-and $40 is all ever received from
her great estate and | paid out over $500
for her own individual liabilities and benz
efts outside Of board and clothes |
bought for her inside of ninety days from
the time / married her This sum was
paid out expressly for her. and not in
dissipation as stated in the article alluded
TO. had never known the effect Of in
toxicating liquors until months after she
had paid out all her money for her own
uses. They accuse me of being a light
ming rod dealer. an insurance agent,
roofer, horse trader. and lastly a farmer
that | actually had the monumental
gall To be farmer. | will right here
plead guilty To- all these last charges ex,
cepi the insurance business: the other
four avocations have been en-
gagged in. | worked in this county
three or four years at Edgington on farm.
Fortunately | am well known here and
throughout the county. and Mercer coun
~ west and south Of this city. and upon
my return from ~. Louis last month |
stopped at Keithsburg and operated from
there. | found some OF nv friends who
have known me all my life had seen the
slanderous articles in the newspapers con-
corning me. Knowing me so long, |
found all had acquitted me without my
presence to make defense
was born and raised in tins county;
have done business for the past fifteen
years throughout the county. and Mer.
Ger. Henderson and Warren counties,
and today i owe no person in the state a
dollar.
While | am willing to wait patiently
for my vindicqtion by the courts. do
not think the misunderstanding lightning
rods. horse trading and farming should,
during the pending Of these suits, be left
in position that they should be, or can
he assaulted over my shoulders: and
upon reflection | have concluded to not
farm, trade horses or do any roofing
work until these suits are disposed of.
At the same time | would request my
friends to suspend their judgment on the
merits of the case now in court until
they are put in possession Of the facts
II. T.. BAILEY.