The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1906-11-14

bonds, hereinafter stated, occurred and
existed in this State and within five
years last past He says that about
80 or 81 years ago, in the year 1874 or
1876, he does not know exactly which,
and does not now remember, in Adair
County, Kentucky, he and the defend
and. Linnie Hardin, were legally mar
ried, and they lived together as hus-
band and wife, for short time, when
she forgetful of the seventh command
ment, became enamored of other men,
who being somewhat over appreciative
of the provisions of the 18th, 18th and
18th amendments of the Federal Con-
stitution and the Civil Rights Bill,
could not be restrained, and he and the
said Llnnie separated, and have lived
separate and apart, without cohabita-
ton ever since, for period of more
than five years last past, viz, for
period of thirty years. The said Linnie,
after some children by other individ-
uals, intermarried with one John Har-
din, by whom she raised considerable
family. The said John Hardin is now
dead.
The plaintiff says that after the sep
aration of himself and the said Linnie,
he tried the joys of single blessedness
for several years, and about twenty
years ago, he sought the advice of a
man learned in the law, as to what
steps he should take to be legally sep
arated and divorced from said Linnie,
whereupon said attorney advised the
plaintiff that If he and Linnie remained
separate and apart for five years, that
said fact divorced him from the bonds
of matrimony with Linnie, and that he
could then marry again. The plaintiff
is an ignorant, unlearned man, and he
believed and relied upon said state
ment. Thereafter, the defendant, Lin
ME, filed suit for divorce from the
bonds of matrimony with him, in this
court, and thereafter he was informed
that divorce had been granted. He
being unable to either read or write,
and unacquainted with the courts and
their ways, fully believed that said d.
vorce was granted, and did not learn
better until within the present year,
when he learned for the first time, that
divorce was not granted, and that
said suit had been dismissed without
any judgment having been rendered.
He refers to said suit and the records
and orders made in same, and makes
them part hereof.
The plaintiff believing in good faith,
that He had been restored to all the
rights and privileges of an unmarried
man, as above stated, thereafter, on
the day of-188-, fell victim to the
ensnarements of the defendant, Mag
gle Campbell, alias Maggie Hardin, and
he and she were married in this county,
on said day, and thereafter lived to-
gether as husband and wife, in said
county, until about three years ago,
when without fault upon his part, she
left and abandoned him and went away
to the Mecca of all colored Kentuck-
ians, VIZ indianapolis, Indiana, where
she could enjoy the poetic inspirations
of James Whitcomb Riley and listen
to the croakings of the turtle upon the
Wabash, and he and she have lived
separate and apart, without cohabita-
ton ever since, for period of more
than one year before the bringing of
this suit, viz:-three years.
He says that since his last Dulcemea
abandoned him, and in fact during the
present year, he has learned for the
first time, that no judgment has ever
been rendered by any court dissolving
the bonds of matrimony existing be-
tween him and the Defendant, Linnie
Hardin, and that the license granted
him by the County Clerk to marry
Maggie Campbell, and the solemniza
ton of the rites and ceremonies Of
matrimony between him and the DIT,
Maggie Campbell, alias Hardin, is as
but thinking brass and a sounding
cymbal," or at least he has been so
advised but on account of the previous
mishaps of which he has been victim,
he has become distrustful of mankind
as we'll as womankind, and he fears
that his marriage to Maggie may be
valid enough to get him into the peni-
tertiary, or into some other predica-
ment, from which he will have trouble.
"Verily, verify, he is man of sorrow
and acquainted with grief" He says
that no children were born to him and
the Diff, Maggie, and that since learn
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