The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-03
TWO WIVES FIND THEIR Hus-
BANDS UNENDuRABLE.
Her HAPPINESS SOON ENDED.
Little More Than Two Months Of Wed
ded Life convinces Mrs. Burg
ner She Erred.

Accepting as true the allegations
contained in their respective COM
plants filed with the clerk of the dis
lowstone county were victims Of mis-
placed confidence when they consent
ed to become the wives of the men
whose names they now bear. They
seem to have realized their mistakes
and ask the aid of the court to re-
lease them from bargains they regret.
Will Not Support Her.
Anna Tolksdorf is the first OF the
two to invoke Judge Loud's assist
ance. She charges that she and the
defendant, Henry Tolksdorf, were In
termarried at Howard, Custer county.
this state, February Is, 1898, and that
she has ever since been true and
the solemn vows he took, she alleges,
he has failed and refused to contrib
ute to her support and for more than
one year last past has not lived with
her, having, so she claims, de-
serted her march %, 1902.
The couple have one child. Fran
ces, years old; which the plaintiff /
claims she has supported and cared
for during all the time Of his refusal
to contribute to the family exchequer.
She AYERS that he is not fit or pro-
per person to have charge or control
OF the child and asks it custody.
AS a second cause of action the
allegation is made that for the last
26 months the defendant has failed
to provide the common necessaries OF
life for the plaintiff and their child
and that during the most Of that time
he has refused to work, notwithstand-
ing his physical ability to do SO and
in addition has spent most OF his
| time and money in drinking and
gambling She says he is addicted to
the use Of intoxicating liquors to ex-
cess. and gives him a rather hard
/ name generally as to regularity OF
habits and exemplary conduct.
/ Custody of the child and such other
relief as the court may deem her en-
| titled to is asked in addition to a d1-
| vorce.
She Soon Wearied.
April 81, 1908, Effie Nina Davis be-
came the lawful welded wife of Ralph
E. Burgner and already she is sorry
/ that she permitted herself to lend q
/ willing ear to his pleadings.
! While he undoubtedly made the
/ same promises and declarations that
all worshippers at Cupid's shrine are
free in making when the desire to
become possessed of some come1y lass
! fills them. according to Mrs. Burgner's 5
charges he has proved anything but
kind and gentle husband to her.
She alleges in her complaint, filed
yesterday, that considerably less than
month after the ceremony was per-
/ formed that supposedly made them
, one Ralph so far forget himself that
} he beat, kicked and choked her. The
exact date on which this is said to
have occurred is given as May IL.
} 1903.
On that day she charges that he
{ threw her down and then emptled
bucket of water onto her by throwing
] it over her. The water is said to have
: been cold. With a cruelty hard to
G. conceive in one married for so short
time. Mrs. Burgner further alleges
!. that not satisfied with sousing her II
, the manner alleged, he struck her
with a board and then kicked her
> about the body and in the face and
choked her until she was almost IN
sensible. The treatmene accorded
her caused her to be .'sick and sore
! for a week" and to be i'll in bed fol
: a period of three days.
+ Fearing further violence at his
/ hands, the plaintiff says she up and
d left her cruel spouse and has not resid
Il ed or lived with him since.
Q A divorce and the right to resume
her maiden name are her prayers.