The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-26
is DIVORCE A



Indications Of = Mania which May Be
Inherited.
Benson Eggers of Danville, Ind, was
recently remarked to his third wife, who
thus become his fourth. Eggers is only
10 years old. The young man has figured
considerably In the press and courts re
GENTLY. He married at the age Of IS and
his wife secured a divorce. He married
again, and wife No. Q left him. Thinking
she was dead, he married q third time.
Then wife No. 3 arrived and sued for di-
vorce, and the third marriage was declared
void, 1t being understood that he would
marry No. 3 again when he was legally
separated from No. 2, which he has now
done.
A study of the last Indiana report on
marriages and divorces brings out the fact
that in certain sections divorce seems to
be a disease that is epidemic, while in
other counties there is hardly a trace of it.
Two Indiana counties for last year may be
taken to show this-Marion and Clark. In
the former there were but three marriages
to every one divorce; in the latter there
was but one divorce to every $50 mar
riages, or three in the entire county. In
the state there was an average of q di-
vorce for every seven marriages during
the year. 1t is noticed that in the counties
where there are no railroads-three in In
diana-tho divorce record Is very low,
Clark county leading, while in the coun-
ties where there are many railroads there
are many divorces, Marion county lead
ing.
In a court at Anderson, Ind, Allen
Lemon has been granted a divorce from
Minnie Lemon. Some six months ago.
after she had been a bride less than six
months, she brought suit for divorce, but
because of the fact that she had not gained
residence in ibis county and state up to
that date the case was thrown out of court.
In her complaint she made the charge OF
incompatibility, due to cruelty and mat
tention. Allen Lemon, the husband, then
filed his suit, be having been a resident of
this county for many years. Upon his APP
plication the decree was granted, but not
until q most extraordinary chain of evil
dence had been presented. The court was
not inclined to grant the decree upon the
usual grounds. probably considering them
insufficient. The plaintiff and his attor-
neys then took up the family tree, and a
most remarkable and interesting n it
was, with many broken branches that at
tracted attention.
The defendant. it was shown, was but
90 years of age, yet she wanted a divorce
after six months Of married life. Going
back only TO her Observation-Disclosures,
in order that the evidence in detail might
nave a limitation, it was found that that
old lady had been divorced; that her
mother had been divorced and probably
her mothers mother, and, tracing it back
in a general way ten generations, it was
found, had all been divorced. The great
Observation-Disclosures sisters had been di-
vorced. The defendants great-grandmoth-
er had been divorced, and her sisters had
also acquired good divorce records, num-
boring from one to three. The defendants
mother had been divorced three times, and
her sisters, the defendants aunts, had also
been divorced from one to three times.
This brings the women folks down, every
one of them with a divorce record, to the
present generation OF Divorces. The de-
fendant's sister, who is but "a years OF
age, was already an applicant and had an
other case OIL, and Minnie, the last of the
generation of marriageable age, had start
I'd in at the gentle age of 30 to make a
record for herself, with indications of ac-
curing a good string of DEGREES.