Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-07
DIVORCE SUIT.
FL, nirine Right to Whip His Wife gets
Henry sieber into Trouble.
c,..tisss Her and Breaks His Contract,
,,.ording to the Petition-other Mat
,srs of Interest in the Courts.

-,,urc Seeber, who lives in the cross
RS near Arlington, holds peculiar
',-.. IN regard to mstrimony, and they
,.rs landed him in the courts.
usnry is a German IN all except birth,
-, nj. ideas do not always gibe with the
,,r, view of things. He is, how
- vell-to-do in this world IS goods as
,.-,sr. 90. He has a nice farm of 272
that is rich with corn and cotton =,
nd his annual income is about $1,000.
little less than a year ago Henry,
81. about thirty three years old, felt
WV force Of the old saying that it is not
Sood for man TO be alone, and visited
sss-sfpbhor, Hollis, who had q buxom
5orrbter fourteen years of age named
Ssreb. Henry told Neighbor Hollis that
as sick of living alone like dog in
III, kenuel, and wanted someone to do
oool,iug for him. Neighbor Hollis
10, moved by this sad appeal, and told
u,rrr that be might have his daughter
sa-oI II he would not work her out in
80 colds. Henry bound the contract,
and sarah was soon installed as,mistress
in the new home.
At this Point Henry's peculiar ideas
,,,ns in. He holds that it is not only
,,rlrl. but a husband has divine right,
and il is his privilege and duty TO
arss,rse his wife when she does wrong in
tysrbt. He traces this divine right to
.ns massage in the Bible, which says If
,br rich, hand offend thee cut il off, and
according 10 the allegations in the
rsttion he Immediately began to exer-
s.s his God-given right. The petition
A.. rsrires that he commenced q course of
Il.reatment Immediately after mar
,,ope which became more outrageous,
until his girl wife took refuge in her
fatber's house. The petition emu
meraies Instances. On the first
day Of March something in the cooking
5j!rlqased him and the divine right was
eyecuted with bundle of switches.
Again. Oh last Wednesday, Sarah's liege
lard commanded her 10 follow the farm
hands into the cotton field, this was be-
sides all the household drudgery and
when she demurred it did offend him.
The divine RICH: and another bundle of
switches we're called into requisition
again.
This not only injured his patient wife
but was breach of the contract with
uelrhbor Hollis, and she took shelter in
her fathers house. Neighbor Hollis
came to Town Thursday and took
council with friends, complain
Ing that the contract was broken. 1t
resulted badly for Henry, and yesterday
sdivorce suit was filed in the district
m, oil
share id the.defendant 5 farm to the OK
tent of $1,000, and Prays for alimony of
SIS month while the suit is pending.
Smith & Payne brought suit against
P. p Ford, the contractor, who is
building the road TO Arlington Heights.
Part Of the work vas sublet to the plain
tits at a specified rate, which was agreed
upon according TO the petition. which
goes on 10 recite that rock material had
been removed to the amount of $3.50,
earth TO the amount of 5000, dirt had
been moved into the cut to the amount of
scotland teams hired TO the amount of
S2.j0 while defendent had. paid but
$780, S and refused to pay more. The
snlt is for pc balance of S2l22 80. -.
Mollie L. Rennets and others filed a
suit of Intervention against Robert
Mozart and others on lot 5, block CO,
Duggett 5 addition. The plaintiff claims
$4,000 damages and rents since 1888.
10 the county court the case of Oliver
5. Kennedy against Chas. H. French
and others was on trial. This was an &C
ton for debt on a note and a verdict of
Sjii was found for the plaintiff
The case Of W. F. Lake against D. c.
Aemper, garnishee for the Western
manufacturing company was tried.
The amount was $500. The decision was
Withheld
The suits set for to-day are Frank NJ.
Marble against the Western Union Tele-
graph company, E. Leonard against c.
= Estell and Edward Tengstrom against
J. F. Madison.