The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-21
UNTYINC KNOTS.
Judge Hazen VIII Begin This
Task Next Week.
TWenty-one Unhappy Mates APP
peal to Him.
CAUSES ARE VARIED.
They Cover Grounds from De-
sertiOn to Infidelity.
Many More Cases Are to Be Dis
posed of Later.


will be called for final disposition be-
fore the court.
The 81 UNHAPPY couples do not repre-
sent by any means the amount of d.
vorce business piled up in the district
court each term. There are probably so
cases in addition to the 81 that will
have to be disposed of later
The charges in the petitions for di-
vorce run the gamut of the charges,
specified by law, as serious breaches of
matrimonial harmony. The charges
run through the list from gross neglect
and throwing dishes to threats to kill.
In fact the habit of wives swearing at
husbands and husbands swearing at
wives and husbands threatening to kill
their wives is not at all uncommon.
The first domestic tangle for Judge
Hazen to untangle will be the suit
brought by Anna Sebiile against Alexis
Sebille. Mrs. Sebille charges that
Alexis was most unkiAd to her. She
says in her petition thaF she had saved
up few hundred dollars, in addition to
the property she owned and that Alexis,
promised and beguiled her with the
statements that if she married him he
would look after her in her old age;
that he would make the burden of her
old days lighter
After they were married Alexis seems
to have forgotten the ante-nuptial
statements for Mrs. Sebille charges
that he Immediately began spending
her money and disposing of her prop
erty. She says that he did nothing
around home but play cards. When
| the great flood came the home property
was damaged and wrecked. Instead of
helping to repair the property Sebilie
| left home and abandoned Mrs. Sebiils.
| The troubles of Clarence and Matte
| Oakley will also need untangling in
! court. Clarence wants to be divorced
| from Matte. He says she has been
guilty of gross neglect toward him and
+ that she has absented herself from
home nights. He charges that Matte
came home in an intoxicated condition
on several occasions. He says she called
| him vile names. Matte Oakley has
something to say against Clarence,
whom she charges with cruelty. She
/ says he struck her and threatened to
Kill her and forced her to go to bed
/ hungry. She says he became so violent
that she was compelled to leave him.
Leta Connor says that she is Benja-
min Connor's common law wife and
that they have two children. They
were married in 1908. She says her
common law husband has used vile
names toward her and has threatened TO
/ kill her.
Thomas Reed wants to be divorced
from Elizabeth Reed, whom he married
in September, 1902. because she has been
| 9uarrelsome ever since they were mar
/ ried and has been cruel to him and mas
used bad names in referring to nm ana
finally Abandoned him.
Laura ]. Haynes wishes the court to
legally separate her from A. F. Haynes
on the ground Of abandonment.
Cora L. Colvin wishes a divorce from
| Lewis w. Colvin, because he has not
conducted himself as a husband should.
She charges him with paying toe much
| attention to other women and of having
spent his money in dissipating and
drinking. She says he has neglected her
and their two children and finally aban-
| doned her.
one of the cases might be called Mrs.
behring's Divorce" after the name OF
tina play in which Mrs. Langtry appear
ed, only in the case in the o1str1ct coutt
Mr.. James Z. Deering brought the suit
against Minnie Deerins. He charges
that she has abandoned him for another
man, and is living now as the wife OF
the correspondent in the case.
Florence L. Conner would be legaily
separated from John Conner because ne
abandoned her six months after they
were married and she has not seen nor
heard of him for six years.
|, Edith F. NJ NJ Mccormack wants to
he divorced from William Mccormack
because he has abandoned her, failed
to support her, and has been guilty OF
gross neglect of duty. She wants he1
maiden name of Edith F. NJ. Frost re-
stored to her by the court. =.
Alfred Treesh wants Judge Hazen &c
legally sever the bonds of matrimony
which bind him to Florence Ireesh
because he thinks Florence has peer
guilty Of gross neglect OF duty. he
lives in Topeka, but she Will not 1--we
here and prefers to live in Mcfarland
Charles Holland wishes decree OF
absolute divorce from Emma Holland
He saws that Emma became 1norose
J and Quarrelseme after they were mar
riad. and that now she will not live
, with him. He says she has been in
f1uenced by her parents.
Martha Davis wishes a divorce from
Henry Davis, whom she married in
1885, because he has been guilty of gross
neglect of duty and has failed to pro-
vide the comforts of life for his wife
that he should
William Z Graham married his wife
/ Ida Graham in 1896. He says another
man has been responsible for the
. troubles in the faERily, which caused
him to seek se9sration.
Clara NJ. Phillips wishes to be di
Il vorceG from James NJ. Phillips. whom
she married in 1856. She says that HI
was cruel to her and that she was
aba ndoned her in 1900
1. s. Wilson wishes to be divorced
from Edna A. Wilson because he think:
she has been guilty of gross neglect. h
is pastor eff St. Marks African church
in North Topeka He says his wife die
not discharge her household duties and
allowed the children to go unwashed FOL
three weeks. While he was preaching
she was out on the streets at night anC
did not get home till IL o'clock.
J. E. Failer wishes to be divorced
from Ophelia Failer. He charges hel
with abandoning him. Zaidee Lauren
asks for separation from l.. A. Lauren
on the ground of cruelty and non-sup-
port.
Betty Mc0Tahon says John J. AIeAIa,
hon threw dishes, knives, forks, hot cot
zee, buckets of water at and on her and
that therefore she wishes to be seoa-
rated from him. She also says he threw
lighted matches in her face, cursed he
and made her get out of bed night:
when he came home with too much OF
board to cook for him. Henry Williams
wishes to be divorced from Emma vii
Ifarns because she abandoned him.
Five cents viii buy one of those To-
Bachelor cigars.