Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-16
CLAIMS HIS WIFE
IS BOOZE ARTIST
Mrs. Lena Hammer Johnson
Dickinson Having More Mat
rimonial Troubles
FORMER MARsHALLTowN GIRL
Mrs. Dickinson Would Make Record
For Two Separations Within Year
and a HaIf-cIaims Husband Makes
Servant Of Her-He Retaliates With
Sensational Counter Charges.


of cruel and inhuman treatment in this
city June 8, 1907.
Again married. this time to DR.. John
w. Dickinson, of Boone. at Crown
Point, Ind Oct. %, 1907.
On Friday, the 18th" filed suit for
separate maintenance from DR.. Dick
.inson at Des Moines.
| On Saturday DR.. Dickinson filed
counter charges alleging his wife to be
e habitual drunkard.
record chapters of the life of Mrs. Lena
Hammer Johnson Dickinson within the
past few years. and the sensational
climax came on the supposedly
lucky Friday, the 18th, when Mrs.
Dickinson, in the Polk county district
court, filed suit for separate main
tenance against her husband, Dr. John
! w. Dickinson, former well-knoWn
practitioner of Boone
Immediately following the suit for
separate maintenance on the part Of
| the wife, DR.. Dickinson prepared coun-
ter charges in a cross bill for di-
vorce in which he claims his wife is
habitual drunkard and "carouses
with other men,"
Mrs. Dickinson is a former Mar
shalltown girl, and is the daughter of
Mrs Allie Hammer Mcnamara, wife
of Leo Mcnamara, an Iowa Central
fireman, living at 305 South First ave-
nue.. Before. her marriage to Harold
johnson, member Of the Marshall
league during 1905, Lena Hammer had
made her home in this city for ten
years johnson went from here to
Boone, taking his wife with him, and
there managed for time the Boone
team of the Iowa league. Mrs. McNa-
mara is at present in Des Moines with
her daughter.
Tires Of Being Servant.
DR.. and Mrs, Dickinson were mar
ried at Crown Point, Ind, Oct. Is, 1907,
a little over four months after she SEE
cured her. decree of divorce from john
son. In her petition for separate main
tenance Mrs. Dickinson alleges that
ever since she married Dickinson she
has been forced to do all the house
work and washing, with practically no
aid whatever. She also claims that she
had to feed and water the horses and
look after the furnace, while the
coachman employed for these duties
''loafs about the house and does moth
ing"
Mrs. Dickinson also ayers that her
husband told merchants and business
men not to give her credit, and even
went so far as to publish in the news
papers that he would no longer be re-
sponsibla for debts she might incur.
Mrs. Dickinson does not ask for a
decree Of divorce, but for separate
maintenance, and asks for a fund in
the sum Of $4,000. She also asks a
restraining order preventing her hus5
band from disposing of his property.
Mrs Dickinson fixes $4,000 as the val
ue of her husbands property, and of
this amount Judge Brennan has or
dered $4,000 held up until further or
ders of the court.
Counter Charges Real Sensation.
But the real sensation came when
Dr. Dickinson prepared counter
cldTSes, SlAUOu1Cu III d Vi OsS uAAi. LIZ
denies most of the charges filed In
his wife's petition and asks for an alb
solute divorce on the ground of cruelty
and drunkenness. Dr. Dickinson alleges
that his wife is whisky drinker, and
that he found thirty whisky bottles
under the sink in the kitchen. He also
claims that she made away with sew
eral cases of beer within the past two
months.
DR.. Dickinson claims that he has
spent much money and time trying to
cure his wife of the liquor habit and
that she has promised to quit several
times.
DR.. Dickinson AYERS that the final
row, which led to the break on Nov.
Z, resulted after he had cautioned his
wife about having anything to do with
certain man in Des MONIES. He claims
that his wife Immediately went to the
mans office and proceeded to get
gloriously intoxicated"
DR.. Dickinson is willing to pay his
wife $25 per month temporary alimony,
but wants the restraining order and
attachment for $4,000 dissolved.
Dickinson Has Wife Living.
DR.. Dickinson, like his present wife,
has another "lifes partner" living
Mrs. Dickinson No. 1 resides in Boone
with her child. The divorce Of DR..
Dickinson and his subsequent mar
riage to Mrs. Hammer Johnson, caused
a sensation at Boone.