The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-03
COOPER IS SUED.
His Matrimonial Ship Again
Strikes a Rock.
Third Wife Wants Twenty Five
Thousand Dollars.
HE HAS MADE RECORD
Four Divorces and One Breach
of Promise Suit.
Latest Charges Are That Aged
Benedict Is Cruel.

John G. Cooper was today made de-
fendant in the sixth suit which has re-
suited from his domestic affairs, in
volving three marriages, love affair
with a housekeeper and difficulty N
settlement of attorneys fees in the ac-
tions In the present suit Mrs. Cora L.
Cooper. a bride of thirteen months,
asks divorce, custody OF an lnIant
child. $4,000 permanent alimony, sup
port of the child, costs of the action,
500 for preparation for the prosecution
of the case, and an order from the
court restraining her husband from
disposing of any of his property pend
ing a decision of the action. Extreme
cruelty and neglect are the grounds
upon which the woman bases her case.
In the present action Mrs. Cooper
saws she was married to the defendant
November "a, 1909, and made her home
with her husband at S24 jackson street.
In March, she says, Cooper suddenly
became imbued with a desire to move
to a farm he owns in Shawnee county,
although the wife says he had prom
ised hat they would make their future
home in Topeka. She says there was
no house on the farm and only tenn
porary shack. Being in delicate health,
she refused to leave the Jackson street
home. 1t was then, Mrs. Cooper says,
that her husband lost his temper,
cursed and swore at her and has since
declined to talk to her except in bias
phemous language. 1t was October Ia.
1910, when Bernice Marion Cooper came
to the home Before the arrival of the
heir. the wife says she had pleaded
with her husband for appropriation
for proper clothing for the babe. The
husband, it is said, refused to allow
more than $40 for this preparation.
Three weeks after the baby came, Mrs.
Cooper says her husband came to the
house and demanded that she take the
baby and go with him to the farm It
was when she refused to take the baby
from the house without proper clothing
that Cooper again became angered ane!
TOLD her to wrap the child in horse
blankets, as they would answer every
requirement.
Says Husband Was Abusive.
Mrs. Cooper No 3 says further ir
her petition that herymother was at. the
home and was anxious and willing to
help care for the child. Cooper is said
to have objected to this assistance and
in a clumsy and bunglesome manner
proceeded to care for the baby in q
manner best fitting his own ideas. Mrs
Cooper claims that after the birth OF
| the child she was compelled by her hus-
! band to bathe in cold room and this
resulted in great injury to her health
| Continuing what Mrs. Cooper terms hel
husbands stingy and parsimonious
manner, he refused to properly provide
| the liable and since her marriage refus
| ed to buy his wife only such clothing
as a few calico house dresses and hel
wants were largely provided by charity
from her personal friends. The woman
also claims as a further reason why
she should be divorced that her hus
| band rarely gave her any real money
and on such occasions the gift requir
| ed much coaxing and evoked grea
streams of profanity. Mrs. Cooper say
she was repeatedly invited to pack he
| belongings and go hence and that tn
husband used every method of abuse
/ vile language and mistreatment to com
pei her to leave the family roof. This