Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-24
WANTS A DIVORCE.
IL Was Not Miss Gaskeii. Purpose % q
Married, but She Did

IL Was Not Miss Gaskeirs Purpose % Ga
Married, but She bid.
Judge Withrow Of St Louis has taken ths
barrow divorce case under advisemeut
There is some trouble about the courts iuris-
diction and there is a slight faint OF collusiou
about IT,
1t Is default case The bill was filed lsss
september. The decree is asked on the simple
charge OF desertion, confirmed for year one prior
to the filing of the suit Tho conf lainant. sarah
q. barrow, is beautiful girl. now abous
eighteen years old. She is bright aud well in
sTueted, but while in the court room che vss
painfully dimdent- Her father is Judge Gas.
AeH OF Lookport \. \. Constantine &. OAR
row, lawyer residing in Buchanan county.
NO, Is the defendant He seems TO be entirely
wiling thai his wife should have a divorce AZ
ne signed an agreement last fall not 20 enter
appearance IN any action which might thers-
after be begun against him by his wife
inc SUIT was not instituted for a month after
this agreement was signed. The wedding MAS
quiet little affair. aud the divorce proceed
lngs would have been almost equally quiet IN a
suspicious circumstance had not led 10 a ais-
closure Of the facts
The petite plaintiff was first called. sbe
tola ths Judge that she was married TO Darrow
IN an Episcopal church at Niagara ON the 10th
OF tebraary, 1879, and that he left her the same
bands treatment of her Was very brutal. that
he was IN the habit Of becoming intoxicated.
ana mat he gave no reason for leaving her
Later an her examination she stated that ha
Was studying law, and desiring 10 avoid study
ing three years. as required in New York. he
went TO Missouri that he might break into the
tSAi profession carlle-. She then told at
length OF alleged cruelties she had suffered.
Inc plalntins mother, Salome GaskeIl, was
then put on the stand. She first testified that
she saw her daughter aud the defendant daily.
anG that Mrs. barrow always treated Ler hus-
band kindly, and that barrow drank al the
time.
While the judge was questioning the mother
'he pialntih attorney interrupted and told this
story Of the marriage:
ihe Young lady was receiving attentions
from cther xxoung men, which excited the zeal.
ousy OF Mr. barrow. and in a spirit of brayado
ne ch@liehged he- TO 20 before a minister and
demonstrato that she WAS not married 70 any Of
the other rivals of whom he Was Jealous
Inc plaintiff father is a gentleman OF high
standing and ex-iudge in that state, a class
mate OF mine IN cOllegs and the whole sur
rouhdlngs OF the case arc honorable and right
ana have great difficulty in eliminating NV
sympathy from the case in order 20 state the
facts as they are. The young lady impulsiyoly
went before clergyman, the marriage cere.
ihohy was performed, and she concealed that
TACT from her father. and there was A conceal-
ment of that fact for the entire period mn 10 n
very recent date, when certain Conversations
or incidents caused her father TO suspect that
marriage had been consummated IL yus
mol the serious purpose of the young lady to
unite herself in marriage TO tins man"
The mother. IN answer to a long series OF
questions, said the couple had never lived to-
sether. The case was taken under Amusement.