The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1904-05-05
Sctssoreo ano Otherwise
An Interesting Petition.

As combination OF literature and legal lore the FOL.
lowing Missouri divorce petition is hard to beat:
"Now on this day comes the plaintiff in Che above en-
Titled cause an humble descendent OF Ham, to the altar
OF Justice weighed down almost TO mother earth by the
sorrows and woes heaped upon her the minister
the gospel performed a ceremony which legally united
this plaintiff and defendant into one at the matrimonial
altar In jefferson City, Cole county, Missouri ON the
fourteenth day Of June A. D. In the year Of our Lord
1897 and begs TO inform this ancient and honorable
court that at all times In the beginning and since said
connubai rites and up to about June Sg0 the plaintiff
iuly persuaded from much experience that she knew
good thing when she IT, loved and honored the de-
endant and cooked and washed and sewed for him. and
ooeyed him In all things, and at all times treated him
with kindness and Affection and like all good and true
wives divided her apples with the defendant ony hut
alas this plaintiff discovered that she had been bug
gng the delusiye phantom Of hope instead OF loving
coon as sweet the honey dew and worthy to be the
pantihs lord and master for the defendant unmindul
OF his marital duties and solemn vow TO forsake all 9TH
ers and ceave to the plaintiff only violated that biblical
command Thou shalt not coyet anything that is thy
neghbors" and was caught, and after due process of
law, IN June, 1880, he filed feons cell In the Missouri
penitenary under sentence OF five years TO the great
humiliation and Inconvenience OF the plaintiff and af
Ter having fully paid the penalty under the three ourths
aw instead Of returning to his faithful Dulcnea this
plaintiff who had suffered great distress OF mind an.
guish Of soul and the deprivation Of all affinity during
his Incarceration the defendant without anger between
or excuse abandoned this plaintiff and betook himself
to tie sunny south, where the cotton and boil weeyll
flourish and where the croaking bufrogs the small
eoos and the large aligato grow, and ever since until
THIS day IS nonresident Of this great Worlds Fair state
imperial Missouri Of the Louisiana purchase Of the
long ago the state Of the plaintiffs nativity and.where
she has resided more than whole year next prior to
the ming Of this petition, and that.
Plaintiff further states that her maiden name was
Loubirta b. wilkins and that by reason Of defendants
conduct specifically enumerated above their matrimonial
venture proved failure her home broken up and she
left In her declining years all alone with no svmpatbete
soul to pour out upon her its soothing balm aud no heart
70 beat IN unison with her fond heart aud no compap
onsp TO cheer and escort her otleWords Great Fair
therefore, the plaintf humby pnys Judgment that the :
'onds Of marlmong contracted with the aforesaid de-
endant be dissolved, set aside and not held and that he
'e divorced from the defendant forever and that e ha
estored 70 single bessedness and to her maiden name
4oubifta D. wilkins aud that this court make such 9TH
7 further and different orders and Judgments from time
time touching the premises to him may seem meet
nd proper, and as justice NAV require"