The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-24
HER NAME WAS IRONY.
Yrs. Sarah Liberty Freed From
a Worthless Man.
n,pe WITH GoLD-HEADED CANE.
NE Lived I'm Clover, While She Worked
Lottery Case In superior Court
-suit to Recover n Farm.

sarah Liberty. 2 pIsas4nt-lookinz. mid
s,s.sxed woman who has been making her
ss-,e with Mr~ Olive Dawson. OF Kirk
sa,.s was granted divorce on the ground
- cruelty yesterday morning By Judge
Y.rvlsy from James Liberty, one Of the
--xr who were on the steamer Whining
- when she burned at Portland. Lib
-. s...- IL UeII-known al New Westminster.
..ssre ne served term for burglary since
he deserted his wife.
- telling her story Mrs. Liberty did not
.rers me dramatic; instead she spoke so
sezr that Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
wiltshire was compelled TO request her on
several occasions 20 speak louder. This
u.s especiaiiy true when she was telling
~ how her husband shot at her with a
,ses gae was cooking for hTidge-bu!ld-
s,v crew on the Canadian Pacific and her
husband was one OF the party. One night
a. she law In bed he came into the car in
saxics.ed and commenced smashing every
.htng he could ret his hands on or feet
against She got out OF bed and COM
rnanesd demonstrating with him. when he
brought a rife ne had with him 10 his
shoulder and took shot at her. For
tunafeIy she was not injured, except by
the shoek Two weeks after this her son
Christopher was born.
They continued 10 live together I'm a
very unhappy manner until the latter
mart OF 1892 or 1899. when they separated at
Vancouver, f. c. Previous 10 this Lib
ertv rnortgaRed some horses and then sold
shenn. He was detected and for fear OF
being prosecuted for fraud fed 10 the
woods and KEEP. In hiding three months.
Then he came back quietly ard shipped
an the Empress of India. During all this
tine she supported herself either by talk
lnx In washing or working in hotels. For
three months she was employed at the
Regina hotel Vancouver. Her children
Harold Ernest. aged Q; Ethel Harriet,
& Christopher, 3, and Thomas, ,. were
,.laced In the orphanage at Vancouver
After her story was finished Mr.. viii
shire asked her more questions about her
husbands love for liquor and his present
occupation She did not know where he
vas at present, but after she stopped nv-
lng with him he was jailed at New West
Minister for burglary
The only other witness was Mrs. Olive
Dawson, OF Kirkland. who styled Mr.. Lib
erfy.
-one OF those dudes with good clothes, a
Toid-headed cane and a cigar"
She said the last time she saw him he
was sitting at a table with cigars and
beer before him while his wife was going
around the house barefooted. Mrs. Davi-
son said she told Mrs. Liberty she would
not stand the treatment she received.
what kind OF woman is Mrs. LIB
er,yg" asked Mrs. Wiltshire.
"she Is a hard-working. honest woman"
Was Mrs. Dayison's emphatic reply.
THE state has no objection 10 the d.
yorce," said Mr.. Wiltshire.
The decree is granted said Judge
Langley
Mrs Liberty not only secures her lib
erfy. but resumes the name of Sarah
Creighton. She lived as girl In Mallowa.
Ontario. Canada, and was married May
e 1854
Mrs Dawson incidentally killed two
birds with one stone when she went to
The court house for in addition TO helping
her friend secure n divorce she got her
own decree signed. 1t will be recalled that
Mrs Dawson was granted a divorce last
winter from Arthur J. Dawson on the
ground OF cruel treatment. She claimed
ne used TO call her vile names and accuse
her of being untrue TO him. and that he
biz her with his fist, compelling her 10
invoke the strong hand OF the law. AS
side issue she claimed her husband was
habitual drunkard and did not support the
family.