The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-24
A DIVORCE FOR THE AsKrS



Worth the Candle.
There are always two slices N . 49,
sroversy. even 10 an action for divorc.
where the husband fails 20 aesena ana
saeh proves TO be the case with tho s.,s,
OF Ciartssa K Morgan VS.. Richard !
morgan. decided by Judge Baaiinger In
the superior court some months ago. The
complaint showed that the parties had
Dseh married In Vermont In 1850, and
charged orunnesiness. non-support and
aoanaonment- Morgan allowed the case
70 go oy default. and the mother was
given the custody OF their 5-year-old son.
The husband seems to have taken The
position that IL the woman wanted a
divorce she could have 1t. He has writes,
. letter to the superior court. In which
he says:
Il wished Mrs. Morgan that was (she
may be airs. Western ere thss) to gain
her point-that Is, a divorce, or legal
prostitution, IL I may so term It, or q
premium On adultery. The charges are
absolutely false--as false as she who
made them I never was drunk, or even
under the influence OF iiquor. / wish I
could say the same for Mrs. NJ She never
even saw me under the Influence OF
liquor. j never refused to support her,
and as TO abandonment. the shoe Is on
the other foot. II was Mrs. NJ who did
that part OF IL. The truth OF the matter
is, she has plainly and simply perjured
herself. ! suppose TO secure a divorce,
and well she knows IL
The fact Is. she admired party or
thing in the shape or a man by the name
OF +. Western, who was a Canadian Pa
cific telegraph operator. and corresponded
regularly with her. in 1888 my wife Wis
tied her parents in Farnhan, a small
town in the East. ! In the meantime re-
sided In Rat Portage. Mrs. NJ. returned
TO Rat Portage ana we resided in the Hill
Hard house. tourist house on the Lake
OF the Woods. Mr.. Western visited Mrs.
NJ here i presume as often as he posi-
bly, could. as it was a short run from
Winnipeg.
.'Mrs. M. found 1t rather dull in Rat
Portage. and after having had quiet
talk over the matter il was decided she
would spend the winter in Winnipeg.
About December or ?, 1888, / received a
letter stating that she was on her way 10
Vancouver. and intended to keep house
there for some private conference.-the.
Western, / presume-and had taken the
boy with her and hoped / would make
no fuss about the boy.
.'Yon can easily imagine how any man
would feel on the receipt OF such a letter
especially as we had parted on the usual
good terms at the station when she left
Rat Portage for Winnipeg. In fact.
can harry understand even now why she
acted as she did Had she stated that
she did not wish 20 remain with me
should have answered her as an Amer
lean would. and packed up my turkey
and busted. ! have always found thar
one volunteer is better than two pressed
mo, and IL Mrs. NJ. did not wish to live
any longer With me she should have said
so.
LAS 20 the boy, l fancy We shall meet
sometime or other. The world ia rot
quite as large as people think 1t Is.
''I thought OF writing this letter sooner.
hut as the Frenchmaa says. lie Jeu ne
yeaux pas Ia chandeile.'
Morgan is now at Fort Mcleod, Afber-
"a, but says he intends TO leave In a short
time for different PARTS of the states