Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-16
MARRIED FOR MONEY.
Mrs. Benjamin Lamb Tells Sorrow
full Tale of Ill Treatment.
TICKLE LOVE OF A BLACKSMITH.
Theodore Doerfinger Is Again Remanded
to the Jail.
YESTERDAY IN THE COUNTY COURTS

The testimony taken in the divorce case
of Mrs Martha E. Lamb, by her next
friend, Edward House, Jr., against DIR.
BENJAMIN F. Lamb, was filed yesterday.
The couple were married March 8, 1888, at
the residence of the bride on Squirrel Hill,
Twenty-third ward. Mrs. Lamb was the
widow of the late John /. House. She
charges in her suit for a divorce that she
was compelled by ill-treatment to leave her
husband in March, 1891. Mrs. Lamb, in
her testimony, states that after her mar
riage they moved to Philadelphia
where she bought and furnished house,
her share of her former husbands estate,
amounting to about 100000 In October,
1890, thev moved to ST. Paul, Mimi, and
from there they returned to Pittsburg.
They boarded at hotels for awhile and then
went TO live on Oakland avenue, East End.
For the first six months after their mar
riage DIR. Lamb, she states, treated her well.
He then commenced to treat her badly. He
never contributed anything to the support
of the household and she gave him money
for his clothes, shoes, etc, and paid his
Office rent, etc He made daily demands
on her for money and she gave him as
much as she could.
Tho Charges of Cruelty.
In October, 1890, he took her by the
shoulders and shock her and said that
blood would be shed before morning.
She finally had to refuse to give him money.
He made demands for even nickel. After
she refused him money he became sullen,
morose and threatening. He told her she
had good reason to be afraid of him and she
dared not take her medicines from him for
fear he would poison her. He was dis
courteous and insulting in his conduct
toward her and visitors to the house, and
greatly humiliated her. He would insult
her before her children and call her a
lunatic, etc. His conduct, she said, made
her feel worse than if he had given her
slap in the face every day. She finally had
to leave him in March. 1891.
Mrs. Lambs testimony as to Dr. Lambs
treatment of her was corroborated by her
two sons by her former husband, and other
witnesses. 1t was stated that she paid his
office rent UP to the day they separated.
Mrs. Lamb never knew what he did with
his money, she paving all his expenses,
though he was practicing physician.
Deserted Early in the Honeymoon.
The testimony taken in the divorce case
OF Ruth Davis Sipes against William Sipes,
an Allegheny blacksmith, was filed yester-
tiav. Sipes, it was stated, had been sued by
tine plaintiff and he had settled the case by
marrying her. They were married in the
Registers Office February 4, 1885, He left
her on the street outside the Court House
and never lived with her. She lives with
her parents in Woods Run, Allegheny.
A divorce was granted yesterday in the
case Of Melissa Harding agains Joshua
Harding. Mrs. Harding lives at No. 395
Fifth avenue. She married Harding, who
is a carpenter, in 1867. He deserted her
July 1S 1889, at Brookville, Pa.
In the divorce case of Margaretta Huber
against Henry Huber, rule was issued
Yesterday on the husband to show cause
why he should not pay her money for sup
port and counsel fees.