The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-07
KANSAS NEWS.
Queer Case of a Mife's Devotion
Comes from Erie.
Objects to Being Divorced from
Her Convict Husband.
TWO YEARS AT LANSING
Supported Herself and Child
During His Imprisonment.
Now He Wants a Separation AL
Ieging Her Unfaithful.

Erie, Kan, June ITO be served
with notice that she had been sued for
a divorce was the reception which
greeted Mrs. c. Q. DilIey after she had
come 200 miles to see her husband and
plead with him to come back and be
her loving companion once more. Such
is a happening in real life which occur
red at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. -Dilley were married at
Neosho, Mo, nearly five years ago.
They removed from Missouri to Okla
homa where Mr.. DilIey became involved
in an unpleasantness which resulted in
his conviction for horse stealing and
imprisonment for two years as a con-
Wet in the penitentiary at Lansing. At
ter his release he did not reJOin his wife
but went to his brother, four miles
south of this place where he has since
made his home.
His wife. who is now living at Miami,
L. T.. came up to see him this week
and plead with him to come back to
her. She was accompanied by their
child, a boy about years of age. The
the nature of which is unknown 1t is
presumed they did not reach. an agree
ment, for after she went back to the
hotel she announced her intention OF
returning to Miami. Before night, now
ever, a message was received by Mrs.
billy from her husband, asking her not
to go until he had seen her again.
She, delighted with the prospect of
favorable negotiations, remained and
awaited his coming. 1t was Sheriff
Yockey, however, and not the husband,
who appeared in the morning Mr..
billy mad filed his suit for divorce in
the afternoon, and, by resorting to
artifice, had succeeded in OBTAINING his
wife so that the legal papers might be
served on her before her departure from
the county.
Mrs. Dilly was distracted when she
had read the legal document which the
sheriff presented her and mad gained
the import of her husbands perfdy, she
burst into tears.
1T is surely a mistake she declared
between sobe. He wouldn't be so cruel,
when he knows I love him So
The officer of the law retired at once
and after she had recovered herself, the
heartbroken wife haunted the court
house in search of Mr.. Yockey. That
gentleman was absent when she arrived
but she awaited his return, when she
told ner story and implored his advice.
Mrs Oily declared that she had been
faithful to her husband continually and
had given him no grounds for complaint
ment delicately by saying that he had
been away for two years, and did not
/ directly She said that during his alb
! sence she had supported herself and their
was was the second time since his release that
she had come to see him and ask MIN 10
return to her.
/ asserted They are trying to separa te
us I believe they think 1 am responsible
/ for the trouble he got into, but am not.
/ 1 will fight this divorce. I don's want 70
be parted from him, for love him so
| Mrs DiIly is a woman of 80 or % years
of age. She is of good appearance and
has the soft speech of a southerner
! Mr.. Oily in mis- petition alleges aban-
donment for more than a year, and fur
Their declares that the defendant has
| been guilty of every offense for which a
] he that.
| requested to do so by the court he Will
now set up all the various other causes
! whereby he would be entitled to a di-
| vOrce from her" w. r. Cline has been
engaged as his attorney The case Wi,
| he <ried in the October term OF court
| settlement is not reached before that
time.