The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-05
NOT A LIFE OF LOVE
BRIDE OF LESS THAN THREE
MONTHS SEEKING A DIVORCE.
GOT TEMPORARY ALlM0NY.
TEN WEEKS AFTER THE MAR
RAGE BENEDICTION.

Daisy e. oliver, Married John L.
oliver on Feb. 10, Has Filed Suit
for Total Divorce Claims Her
Husband Cursed, Abused and Beat
Her, Drew weapons Upon, Tore
Her Clothes and Finally Threat
cned to Cut Her ThrOnt-A Few
Weeks of This Enough for Her.
Plaintiff Did Not Appear to Con-
test Application for AIimony and
1t Was Awarded.
A bride of less than three months suing
her husband for divorce, on the ground
OF cruelty and brutal treatment, was the
somewhat unusual spectacle afforded the
officers and onlookers in the Superior
Court yesterday morning.
The particular phase of the case under
consideration was the application of the
wife for temporary alimony, and attor-
ney's fees, pending the final decision of
her petition for divorce. The plaintiff
was Mrs. Daisy E. Oliver; the husband
and defendant, who did not appear was
John L. Oliver. The plaintiff was rep
resented by Mr.. W. N. Clark.
Mrs. Oliver testified that she married
the defendant Feb. 10, last. Shortly after
the marriage her husband began his
course of cruelty and abuse. 1t was kept
up necessarily, she said, until it became
finally uncomfortable and further living
with him impossible.
He would curse her on the slightest
provocation and without any provocation
whatever, would abuse her in a way that
made her wretched, would threaten often
to strike her and on moro than ono OC-
casion did actually strike her. In a fit
of mad rage he once tore her clothing
violently from her; on another occasion
he drew knife and told her he was go
ing to cut her throat.
Under such treatment she found il i'm
possible to live with her husband more
than a few weeks Then she left him and
filed suit for a total divorce
The wife testified her. husband was a
strong and able-bodied man, one fact
which she said she was able to testify
to from personal experience, and that he
was steadily employed and quite compe-
tent to earn good living and to aid in
her support. On the showing made and
in the absence of the husband, who did
not appear to contest the application,
Judge Falligant passed an order directing
that he pay to his wife the sum of So a
month as temporary alimony 'And $25 as
attorneys fees.
The plaintiff is quite a young woman
and apparently from the country. Evil
IDENTIFY she has had no very extensive OK
perience with the male human and, ac-
cording to the story of her married life
retailed in her petition and from the
stand, what she has had has not been Pc
culiarly pleasant.
The husband has made no answer to
his wife's petition for divorce. and as he
made no appearance at the hearing upon
the application for temporary alimony.
his side of the case, if he has one, has
not been revealed.
So far as is known this case. in the
briefness of the time that elapsed from
the tying of the nuptal knot to the filing
of the suit for a judicial separation,
breaks the record. There have been cases
where husband and wife have agreed to dis
agree, or have disagreed with agreeing,
in shorter time, but they have been usu-
ally content to await the lapse of some
months before calling upon the courts to
decree a divorce.