The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
Women Who Accept Husbands
Hastily Suffer Results.
Three of Them Are Getting Rid
of Their Husbands Today.
"ANYTHING FORA MANI
Has It's Disadvantages Too Nu-
merOus to Mention
Although a Few Are ssMention-
ed'' in Today's Trials.

This is a field day in the divorce court.
Injured wives and wronged husbands are
laying their woes before Judge Hazen.
case that will not be completed be-
fore tomorrow is that of Jennie Green
against George Green. The parties live
in Willard and the man in the case is
said to be wealthy. He is son of John
Green, one of the rich pioneers of Shaw
nee county The court room is filled
with witnesses. Nearly everyone in the
vicinit yof Willard has been subpoenaed.
Mrs. Green has a rather pretty face.
She told her story simply on the witness
stand this morning.
Il married George Green,'' said she, Sin
August, 1892, and our child was born in
January, 1885, I have been very unhappy
since then. My husband would come in
to the house in his old dirty clothes and
lie down on the clean bed. I begged him
not to do so, but he paid no attention to
me.
Another time he brought some ducks
into the house and got some water for
them to paddle in. again objected, but
be said nothing and kept on. Sometimes
he would shell corn on the floor and call
the chickens in. Once he brought a pig
into the house. 1t did no good for me to
object, for he never paid any attention to
me.
'I do not know that he ever carried a
bucket of water in for me, and seldom
any wood, but one time he carried wood
nutil he almost filled the little kitchen.
He did that to bother me-
Mrs. Green said that soon after her
child was born her husband took her to a
neighbor where she worked as a SER
want for a large family for two months.
She said that after that her husband
took her to a dug-out II by IA feet, where
they lived for five months She said her
health was poor because the place was
damp.
There are other charges, among them
being the usual one of infidelity on the
part of the wife, and the wife charges
that she has not been properly provided
with the necesSaries of life.
Green is the man who spent five weeks
in the county jail because he refused to
tell where his little son could be found.
He took the child away after the court
had decreed that Mrs. Green should have
possession of it pending the divorce.
Green finally tired of his life in Jail and
went to Kansas City, where the boy was
found with friends.
Judge HaZen will probably not decide
the case for several days
Carrie Schneider was successful in her
suit for a divorce from her husband,
Geo. Schneider. The husband did not con-
test the suit, for he is laboring under the
inconvenience of being in Jail in Kansas
City.
Mrs. Schneider cannot talk English and
Conrad Mayer acted as interpreter. She
said that her husband is in Jail for steal
ing their 4-year-old child. He took the
child and then told her that he had sold
it to man in Pittsburg for S275. She
also told of the threats he made against
her life.
1t took Judge Hazen one minute to de-
cied that Mrs. Schneider should have
divorce.
Mrs. Almeda Mahan was given a di-
vorce from her husband. w. T. Mahan, to
whom she was married in 1888 They
have not lived as man and wife for three
years and the divorce was granted on
the statutory ground of non-support. Ma
han lives in Alma.