The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-29
FORCED INTO
SINFUL LIFE
WIFE SAYS
Fully, Frankly and Freely" Con.
tesseS She Did Not Resist
Temptation

New York. May o. MIS- Isabella
S. Busch, Of No S64l Eighteenth ay-
enue, Brooklyn, filed with Justice AS
pinall nthe supreme court a peti,
tlon asking S25 a week alimony and
$3.50 counsel fee pending the trial or
her suit for separation from Bernard
Busch, dyer. who stores at No. l24
Court street and No 40 Hoyt street,
Brooklyn
che affidavit supporting Mrs.
Buseh's petition contains 10000
words In il she says she was mar
ried December IA, 1901, when sixteen
years old. ana fourteen years her
husbands junior and that In Febru-
AIRY. 1908, she LETT him, after he had
urged her to lead an immoral life
She fully frankly and freely ad-
mits that she ala SO.
Mrs Busch told lds part Of her
story tn the following, words,
When | asked for money for my
| clothing and personal expenses, my
husband me 1t with taunts about my
| beauty, saying he would not he
Shocked ii ] brought money to him.
Distracted with grief LETT him in
1905, and for five years | have not
received a dollar from him
4 confess that ] did not resist
temptation an. sorry for II now,
and 4 confess il fully, frankly and
ireell bur perhaps some excuse, some
mercy. ca nhe shown me for / mar
/ ried when practically a mere child.
and not used to life, and it is because
of the cguet treatment Of my hus-
band thar ] have erred
/ During this separation ] hved with
men who supported me and supplied
my material wants and with one
nan who promised to marry ne ii
/ got q divorce. ! have bitterly repent
ed 81 Dy moral crimes, have learn
ad that such lite while superficial
/ III alluring and glittcring at times,
IL wholly wrong and for the past TWO
wears ! have earnestly prayed To be
spared from los PERMANENT continu.
ance and have longed for a pure 40
nestle llfe"
/ Mrs BAscn came to this cOncMs-
ion, she says on May 29Ie10 She
I determined TO break away from the
life she was leading and to return to
I her husband She wrOte asking his
forgiveness, and he too. having re
! pented, they went to housekeeping
again at No goo Baltic street, Brook
lyn- Mrs. Busch says that she pawn
ed handsome furs and iewelry, to
helg her husband In his business. ana
that she has not been in a res.aur-
/ ant or theatre, unescorted," since her
return
But, after a time, She adds, my
husband began to imporlune me for
i money, and through yelled hints ia
/ express his desire that | return ia
my abandoned life. j thought him
joking az that he was testing me
and rejected his sugge lions good
naturedly Bur he persisted, ana
resolved To test him, Tor III he was
/ iii earnest thonght he was vileI
than | had ever been.
1 SO assented 10 his proposition
thai write TO one oi my associates
a single man making an appoint
ment 70 meet him MS husband read
the letter and took Il away to mail
TO my dismay a renly came
4 pretended 70 keep the appoint
meut and borrowed Si5 from my
mother which J took to my husband
tie took it and approved OF what
had done as he imagined Another
time I pawaed a tie clasp for $40
and gave him the proceeds He re.
turned S. Of it with which I was
TO get new hat my husband say
ing new bat would make me more
attractive to men Then felt that /
could no longer live With such a
man
Busch has entered q categorical de
nial 10 his wiSes charges and allie
cations He says he first met heF
in restaurant when, far fr0m he-
ing child 0f iG she was yoMng
woman Ut lS, willy and shreWd LII the
NAYS ~ ihe underworld
soon after their marriage Busch
saNs bis wife grew melancholy ever
the fact thay she was forever tn be
denied the joys of motherhood he
adopted chila, but Mrs. Busch TOOK
50 violent q dislike TO the youngster
that Il had 10 be returned
Busch denies with emphasis that
ae ever suggested the leading OF an
immoral lite hg his wife.