Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-14
SHE TRIED TO POISON HIM
so }. y. KELLER SAYS IN HIS
ANSWER FILED
To Mrs. siay ISeIIer'- Bill for n Di-
vorce and Aiimony--He Denies All
of Her Allegation. and says may
Was Very BAD.

Several weeks ago. IT viii be remem-
bered. a sensational bill for divorce
was flled In the district court clerks
office by Mrs. May Keller. who de-
sired a divorce from ]. F. Keller. and
asked for 500 q month alimony. $500
lawyers' fees and for half Of Keller's
estate.
j. f. Keller. the defendant. through
Byron Johnson and NJ. d. Priest. his
attorneys. has made his answer to
the bill, In which he alleges that the
court has no Jurisdiction in the case.
for the reason that the plaintiff has
not been resident citizen OF this county
tition, and that the allegation that
she was a resident in Tarrant county
for more than six months before filing
the petition is false that the plaintin
has not resided in THrrant county
for more than four months next before
ton was made for the purpose OF
fraudulently inducing the court TO
entertain jurisdiction OF the cause.
Furthermore. the defendant says that
the allegations OF the plaintiffs petit
ton. charging that the defendant, j. F.
Keller, treated her cruelty. is false In
every particular. and fraudulently
made as an apparent ground In order
that a claim for alimony can be based
thereon and the defendant believes and
charges that the whole case is
fraudulent scheme to eXtort money
from him In order that the plaintiff
may squandor 1t upon Vicious persons,
and not in good faith for the pur-
pose OF obtaining a divorce, as the
plaintirr well knows there is no truth
in her allegations OF cruel treatment
ON the contrary, the defendant says
he has treated the plaintiff with great
kindness during the whole time they
lived together.
The defendant further relates that
Notwithstanding his kind treatment
OF the plaintiff, she would repeatedly
during their marriage absent herself
from his home, on the pretext that
she was very pious person, that she
was In daily attendance Mt the house
OF God, when the defendant is inform
ed and believes In truth and fact that
she was in an designation house. hav-
ing debauch with vicious characters
Also, since her abandonment of the
defendant, she has been living life
of adultery openly and fiagrantly.
The plaintiff believed that the de-
PENDANT was man OF great wealth
and desiring to obtain control Of II
In order that she might squander It
upon vicious characters with whom
she was consorting. the defendant is
Informed and believes and so charges,
that the fact is that the plaintiff en-
tered into conspiracy to poison the
la nl Fa-
procured a certain deadly drug and be-
gan to administer II to the defendant,
so that he became seriously i'll. when
certain persons who claimed TO be
cogni2ant OF the plaintiffs intentions
cautioned him against using anything
prepared by the plaintiff and when
he was 30 informed he refused to ac-
cept the draughts prepared by the
plaintiff and he again recovered his
health.
The defendant Is Informed and be-
lieves and so charges that the plain
tin is In receipt OF an income sum
Client to meet all her requirements.
The defendant further shows that he
is man OF small means and has no
Income other than that which comes
from his own hard labor and that on
account OF a misfortune he has not
been able To earn anything or conse-
quence since the last six months.
He says the said petition should
be refused
The case came UP before Judge Har-
ris in the Seventeenth district court
yesterday aud the attorneys FOR the
defendant offered to prove by wit
nesses who were present all OF the al
LEGATIONS In the answer to the plain
tins petition.
Judge Harris declined to hear any
testimony on the merits OF the divorce
case holding as reason for the rul-
ING That the statutes regulating all
mony In divorce cases would renulro
some hllmony to be allowed whether
there was any grounds for the divorce
or not. and regardless of the jurisdic-
ton OF the court to grant the divorce.
The case was taken under advlsement
by Judge Harris.