Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-25
LEFT HER
HAPPY HOME
JOSIE LANE MAKES STARTLING
ALLEGATION AGAINST Ter
HUSBAND.
GUILTY OF EXTREME
ACTS OF CRUELTY.
In Many Ways, She Says, He Endeav-
cred to Compel Her to Become
Degenerate.

Heouor1 d. Lane, who formerly drove
a Pair of horses attached to a street
spri1kling cart has been made defendant
N suit for divorce instituted by his
wife, Josie c. Lane who is only Il years
ola aHd who was married to Lane on the
tth Of last SEPTEMBER. In the complaint
the plaintiff makes some rather startling
allegations against the defendant. p;ctur-
ing him anything except the good man
sh- thought he was before her marriage.
She says when the marriage took place
She was only II years Old of delicate
feelings; that her previous life had been
surrounded by social comforts ana all
the refining influences of happy home;
that after their marriage the defendant
was guilty Of repeated acts OF extreme
cruelty ana inhun1anity towards her.
among others particularly as follows:
That ever since their marriage the de-
PENDANT has failed, refused and neglect
ed TO provide Or furnish her with a re-
spectacle or comfortable or any dwelling
consistent with her station in life. he be-
ing constantly in receipt of large earn
insa and being abundantly abe to do so,
but on the contrary has compelled her to
cook for him at a stable and lodge in
low resorts ana in rooming blocks occu-
pied ana freQuented by lewd dissolute
persons and women of the town; has
compelled he. to drive through the streets
of Butte in plain view Of the companions
OF her sirlhooi upon an old dirty water
cart. and. upon numerous occasions,
compelled her TO wait for him for hours
at a time at the rear Of a saloon known
as the Union Boy All of which acts
of cruelty We're greatly against her will
and caused her great humiliation. mort-
!icaticn and disgrace. That he kept her a
prisoner secluded in the loa tlsome quar-
ters mentioned. denied her friends and
acquaintance admittance to the room
and refused TO allow her to associate with
or visit her family, relatives. friends or
companions: that at all times the defend
ant refused and neglected to provide for
her with the common necessarie:s OF life.
he being in constant receipt of earnings
ara having in his possession ample
mears to supply the same; that he con-
tinuously acted towards her in a cruel,
harsh. insolent, contemplate and tyran-
ical manner and frequently addressed to
her grossly abusive. profane, vile ana in
decent epithets; that he habitualy eX-
pressed 10 her wish that she were low,
bawdy girl that she might visit low re-
sorts on Galena street and the Montana
Concert hail. which places are inhabited
ana frequented by the demi- monde and
the substratum of society. the avowed
Intention purpose ana desire of the de-
PENDANT being that she might prostitute
herself to crafty his avarice: that on
November 1 at No. 41212 South Main
street the defendant without any provo
cation wilfully, ma'icously ana wrong
fully seized her and violently forced her
head and body against the doo" and al
the same time used towards her vile. in
decent. profane and abusive language, all
of which caused her great mental and
physical suffering: that on or about De-
tobsr 13. at the stable of the defendant,
he threatened to strike and beat her with
a neck yoke unless she consented to con-
form herself to his standard of deport-
ment.
Continuing the plaintiff says she be-
lieV.S that We're she compelled to live
with the defendant he would carry his
threats into execution and endeavor to
compel her to adopt his ideas of degen-
eracy. The acts of cruelty, she says be-
came so frequent ana so severe as to
cause her great mental suffering: that
they affected her personal comfort, i'm
paired her health and endangered her
life: that because of the indignities
heaped upon her by the defendant her
condition was rendered 81 into!erable and
her life so burdensome that on November
. She was forced to withdraw from the
place provided for her by the defendant:
that She made her escape from 1T and
sought refuge with her parents. with
whom she has re 81 led ever since: that
during the time she lived with the de-
PENDANT the course of his conduct to-
wards her was such as to create fear
that continuance of their cohabitation
would be attended with gr:evous bodily
harm and personal violence to her and
result in her premature death or mental
collapse.
In addition to a decree of legal sepa-
ration Mrs Lane asks the court to allow
her to resume her maiden name. Josie
Sinsel Louis P. Forestell is her at