The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
ACTIONS OF HIS WIFE
RELATED BY JOSEPH II. TEDROwE
IN A COUNTER AFFIDAVIT.
He Sets Out His Present Financial
CondftiOn-Mrs. Bullock's AM
davit-COurt Cases.

Joseph T. Tedrowe filed counter aft
davit in Superior Court, Room /, yester-
day. to the motion of his wife. Estella
Tedrowe. for an allowance for herself and
attorney during the tendency of her petit
ton for divorce. He alleges that since their
marriage he has discovered that she did
not love him and that the first summer
after their marriage. at Lake Wawasee.
she fell desperately in love with young
man named Stems, over whom she became
hysterical, pretended to become insane and
attempted to commit suicide by taking
chloroform.
He says that when they were married
he had good house of ten rooms, on
Cornell avenue, and after her love affair
she insisted that they live on North Merid-
ian street. He says that at the time he
was worth between $4,000 and $4,000 and
bought property and built a house on
North Meridian street at a cost of SO, 0OO
and TO further please her kept a good horse
and trap for her service. He also AYERS
that at her request he bought stock in
the German House, although he has no
taste for such things, and that she in
sisted on going there frequently. He al
leges that she would go off with young men
and drink and on three occasions became
so intoxicated that she had TO be assisted to
her carriage; several other serious charges
are made. He says she is a woman hater
addicted to the use of cigarettes and would
get angry when he refused to buy more
for her. He asserts that she has said she
is young, must have good time could
not settle down and that she married him
for his money and soon as that is gone
would leave him.
1t is alleged that when she left him he
did not know she intended to stay away
and that since that time he told her she
could have her clothes if she would send
for them. but she failed to do so. He says
he finally sent them himself. As to his
keeping her bicycle, he says 1t is at her
disposal whenever she wants it. The dia-
monds. he says, he permitted her to wear
on the agreement that If she should leave
him. she threatened to do, they should
be returned to him. She is charged with
saying she could never be the wife of a
poor man and would leave him when his
money was gone.
In his affidavit he says that he owes
$4,000. has an interest of $500 or $500 I'm the
firm of Carbon Lenox, owns his home
on North Meridian street and other prop
erty, and that his total income is but S67
a month Because of this small income
and his inability to give her more money
he assigns as the reason that she left
nlu since Sne went away he says ne tried
to get her to return. but she refused to
do so. He alleges that she frequently
wanted to break up and said that If
he would give her 5000 she would go away
and release all claim upon his property. He
states that the day she left him she con-
tracted debt at a store for $76.98 for
clothes she did not need. He says that
ever since their marriage she has said she
was dissatisfied. wished she was dead
threatened self-destruction, said she never
expected to live to be thirty years old
and If she did not die she would kill her
self. The allegations of abuse and mistreat-
ment in her divorce complaint are denied
and he asks the court to hear the evidence
before granting an allowance.