The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-21
THE DIVORCE MILL.
The Matrimonial Heads OF Three Husbands
Chopped OF Yesterday.

| This is the last half of the last month OF
| leap year and while the casual observer
would naturally think that the ladie:
would be hastling themselves to get hus
bands, the fact is they seem to be more
eager to get rid of them, as can be seen by
comparison of the records of the pro-
bate court and the divorce f>ill. In the
district court yesterday three divorces
were considered while there was not a
single applicant for a marriage license.
Judge Reed thinks the divorciug business
is becoming alarming and he takes
more than usual interest in the subject
when cases are brought before him. Un-
der the law they must be entitled to the
fullest extent TO a divorce or he will not
grant it.
He had one case up before him yester-
day which was not hard to dispose of.
The case was Belle Richmond VS.. Hiram
L. Richmond. The plaintiff was neither
extra young or extra beautiful, but for all
that she was in a decided hurry to
separate herself from her spouse; and it is
no wonder, for the said spouse has no less
than three living wives besides herself
two of whom, according to the testimony,
he did not even take the precaution of
being divorced from before he gave his
heart and hand to the plaintiff in this case.
He is, in her opinion, bigamiSt, a Nor
mon and Turk, and no doubt would be
prosecuted as such had he remained in the
great moral state of Kansas. After living
some time with wife No 4, his affections
seemed to have returned to wife No 2, who
lived in 81 Iivinu wit h.
few months he seemed to take to the
idea that the life of bachelor was Just
the thing, and pursuant to that idea, he
went to Enterprise, lud., where he now is.
From this retreat he wrote few loving
letters to his Wichita wife, in which he
gives several chapters of his experience
with the st. Louis woman, and IN which
be states that he is trying to get
a divorce from her. He thinks he can get
it and implores the Wichita wife to wait
till he can, i'll which event he promised to
come back and love her harder than ever
before. From a perusal of his letter it
seems while he Is seeking a divorce from
wife No = she is seeking to obtain some
money from him, for at the conclusion of
one of the paragraphs of his letter he
freedom while Sallie is fighting for
Wife No. is at Garden City 10
this state and is saying nothing. while
wife No. AS residence is unknown. The
evidence was quite startling even
to Judge Reed, who has Curwin's
divorce cases before him every day, and at
its conclusion he made some remarks on
the subject of divorces that were plain and
forcibe
The second case called up yesterday was
the case of Blodgett VS.. Blodgett. That,
too, showed terrible condition of affairs
The plaintiff, Minnie Blodgett, produced
some letters from her husband to u we'll
known female character which were Il
on the sacred name of matri-
mony.
The third was the case of Mrs. Arey
against her husband. the latter now resid-
ing in the south. Failure TO support was
the charge alleged in this complaint. This
was case of May VS.. January, the wife
being young while the husband is old and
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