The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-04-21
DIVORCE PLEA
IS A REAL GEM
Poe and All the Rest of EN- Are
Outdone Completely
In This.
RARA AVIS AND HER FLIGHT
"sIREN OF SONG" "THE POISON
WEEDS" "DlABOLlSM," SATAN.
&c" AND EVERYTHING ELSE
SET FORTH IN COMPLAINT.

lPUDllSherS' PrsSS1
Portland, Ind, April 20.-The so
ciety circles Of the northern part of
| the city, sometimes called by the vul-
gar, "Tuckertown" have been stirred
to their utmost depths by the revela-
lions of moral baseness contained in
divorce complaint filed in the cir
cult court Monday evening. The
plaintiff is William H. tanning, whose
standing among the -Four Hundred
Of that exclusive suburb has long
been unquestioned. The complaint
has been the second one filed by him
within the past year, the divorce hav-
ing been refused the first time. 1t
seehs that his married life has not
been that long, happy honeymoon of
which he had dreamed, and of his
anticipated joys and realized troubles,
he tells in the following complaint,
fled through his attorney, M. S. Will
hanson. The first formal avert
ments are omitted:
That said plaintiff and said de-
PENDANT were legally Joined in hymen-
al bonds and lived together as man
a7d wife until the - day of July,
1898. Plaintiff says that during the
corsTetudes of courtship, defend
ants department was such as to in1-
rrees him that she lowered as high
obove the average maiden as the pill
Ia"ed ornament towers above terra
fI'n7a: that to his enchanted vision
"''n w0s "rara avis" Plaintiff fur
to" GAYS thai even before the
c1~r'0's sweets of their honeymoon
NG7'Cd non his appetite, he realized
49, ~ IS "ot cold that .glitters; that
CafCnC2nt tad been masruerading in
boz '7-o' ''V'N9"a; that her vest.
rNon+~ IS # co'c5t'oI vision were met
o''>"-,','.""ed into the Furnished scale
q -" eorno"+, which said serpent had
Te7-07001o" f"r~s in it's mouth and
- 'nG with death, while chanting the
siren song Of dcathless concord
P'"'7+i's says that defendants life
'n's7ion vas seemingly to SOW the
no'~on weeds Of discord, and to this
cd SIC became neighborhood tor
mont That she prosecuted her
chosen mission with jealousy never
so vigorous, with power never Sc
despotic, and with a diabolism never
so Satanic; her tongue was the mol
ten lava of eyasperating malevo
j lence; her CULVER was never empty OF
Pantheon arrows; she spared neither
age nor sex; that maid and maiden
sire and son, were transfixed with her
malignant shafts of reptilian malice
On all moral and religious questions
! she was as barren as the volcanic
/ fields of Iceland are barren of vegeta
ton; her very prayers were curses;
her domestic and social life was
FRAGRANT with no incense and preg
nant with no Diety; her profanity and
vilgarity in her home and in the pres
ence Of our children is too horrid fol
public record. Her speech mover
never caught the accent of candor OF
the flavor of truth; our home was
stunned as a pest-house; We were
throned, crowned and scepterde ir
or social isolation. The approach tt
orr home was dangerous, and its con
tact was moral and social death. Hel
most DISTINGUISHED traits of charac
ter were exhuberance of mendacity
ed the effervescence of Gall. Wher
We serarated, I gave her the option
cf removing with me to Jaw county
w"ere we might commence life anew
Her refusal to accede to the PROPOSE
10, was emphatic and unmistakablt
md 7 came alone and she moved tt
the state Of Michigan. Plaintiff would
therefore pray the court to cut asun
der the connubial umbilicus, and dis
I solve the bonds of matrimonv and re
/ lease me from this deadly incubus
4 the defendant, and for all othe
proper relief.
Crucbed f,.1lit ArawberriaS TO-