The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-01
DIVORCE IN CHICAGO.
FORGERY AND BRIBERY COMMON
LY EMPLOYED.
DeprnvitT Hard TO Understand---A
Specimen of Chicago Morality.

, A Story That Oiscloses Condltlen
, Deprnvity Hard to Understand---.
Specimen of Chicago Morality.
A Dubuque Qowa) dispatch to tn
Philadelphia Press says: CA case bs
Just cone to light in this city which
proves conclusively that sudden aEt
thorough exposure of certain divorce
agencies in Chicago is necessary. Th'
facts show that no married man OF woman
is safe, and that there is at this moment
an agency in Chicago which does moi
hesitate not onl to compass the separa
tion Of married people, but which man.
ufactures testimony and is ready to COM
nit perjury and forgery in the accom-,
plishment of its designs.
"A leading lawyer of this city was
some months ago called on by rather
interesting young woman who said her
husband had begun suit for divorce
against her. Her story was tina. she bad
been married but short time, and that
her husband had been very jealous of
her, but generally kind and proper in his
treatment OF her until be suddenly
charged her with iDffdelity one day and
announced his intention of procuring a
divorce, He carried out HE Intention
and lived part from his wife. The wife
a7owed her entire innocence, and said it
was impossible to account for the conf
dence of her husband that abe was
guilty.
-'The lawyer looked into the case lit
tie and became interested in it, as he had
reason to believe that his client was not
guilty of any wrong doing. His first
theory was that the husband was insanely
Jealous, but when he discovered from the
opposing legal counsel that the husband
named two correspondents and gave the
fullest details OF his wife's misdoing,
this theory was abandoned, though be
still believed the wife innocent. A fur.
ther investigation made it plain that
through Chicago divorce and detective
agency spies had been put upon the lady
and one Of them lived in house near
hers for months. They discovered no.
thing, however, az the wife's lite was en-
tirely proper both before and after her
husband left her. When the case reach
ed the point of deposition and interrog-
tories the counsel for the wife succeeded
in making the other side show their
hands fully. Their case was that the
womgn had committed the sin at her
own house in Dubuque on . certain day
with two men whose names were given.
GA searching examination proved thar
the crime was impossible, and the lady's
lawyer now determined to get at the bot
tom of the case at any cost. After much |
labor he discovered that the whole testi-
mony was worked up in Chicago; that
forgery had been committed by inserting
names in the register of the leading hotel
of the place, and that there was not =
word of truth in the charges which the |
Chicago agency stood ready to prove IN |
court by two men witnesses the woman |
had never seen. When the names OF these
men were mentioned to the wife, she, OF |
course, knew nothing of them, and her
friends we're able to corroborate her.
Finally the whole scheme was exposed,
and the Chicago agency never appeared
in the Iowa courts.
The curious part Of the case is that
the Chicago agency net only stood ready |
to ruin forever the woman, but that IN |
order to e1tort money from the husband |
the evidence was manufactured and he |
was made to believe IL, and was bled |
freely oflarge sums.of money. The un-
fortunate man, having full belief in the
Q uilt Of lis vie and in all the stories !
told him by the Chicago &c pr. wa
completely misled, The agency, "!tn u
fendish greed for money, added new eV-
idence of the wife's guilt daily, and
brought forth the men who, it was said,
had been intimate with her. and he |
heard the story from their own lips to
the last detail. He was completely !
duped.
The time came, howeve-, few days
ago, when the whole scheme was laid
Dare, auo NC Soou sa" Inot tuo Au@ VIZ
had relieved him of almost his last penny
and had made him believe that bis wife
was untrue were set of villains who
live by the invention of such scrimes.
He wrote his wife when the trath was
forced upon him a manly letter, laying
all the blame upon himself, but without
hope of her forgiveness. 1t is probable
that no man or woman ever passed
through such an experience as the result
of a set of scoundrels who had no inter-
est in the case except the money they
were able to e1tort from the husband.
It is not known whether the principals
in the plot will be prosecuted in Iowa.
but they certainly ought to be for the
protection of society in the West"