The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24
PREACHER GETS IT
SO William A. Cross Tires of
Giving Wife Money.
Fourth Trip of Matrimonial
Row Reaches Court.
HUSBAND MUST NAME PASTOR
Cross Says Wife Admits She
Loves Another.
Declares She Will Never Give
Up Her Affinity.
HUSBAND MUST NAME PASTOR

William A. Cross, whose recent petit
ton in a divorce case, charged his wife
with too friendly relations with a To
peka minister, must now name the min
lister or withdraw the charges. In an
answer fled today, Mary Z. Cross in
sists that her husband name the preach
err An attorney for Cross said the
preacher would be named if his client
consented.
This is the fourth time that Cross
and his wife have taken their domestic
affairs to the courts. Recently Mrs.
Cross filed an action for divorce, u
leging that her husband was cruel and
threatened to kill her.
In a cross petition which Cross filed,
were many thrills. He says Mrs. Cross
once struck him four times in the face
and beat him until his nose bled. She
often referred to him, Cross says, as 4
dog and an 'onery cur" When Cross
went home in the evening with his
bosom filled with love and heavenly
thoughts. his wife abused him and re-
fused TO sit on the porch with him.
Twice Cross himself asked for a divorce
Bach time the wife repented and the
husband granted probation. once TINS
probation cost him a deed to the little
home on the East side, he says but he
desired harmony at any price
Kiss of Betrayal Precedes Suit.
one morning several months ago,
Cross was surprised when his wife mug
ged and kissed him. He says II was
the kiss of Judas. That same day
Cross was served with papers notifying
him that Mrs. Cross was seeking dI-
vOrce That was in 1870
Since that time Cross has been com
PEELED to pay his wife $40 a month and
an order from the court restraints him
from going home. For five weeks, ne
says, he has been compelled to do his
own cooking.
The third divorce action was never
disposed of, the cross petition by MI /
Cross recites. when his wife brought |
a brand new case. He wants this one
Then he tells of his wife's friend
ship for the preacher in the following |
positive language:
She Gives Preacher His Money.
That one certain preacher, whose
name defendant knows, but which is
not given for obvious reasons, is the
particular friend and associate of the
plaintiff. That she carries on cor
respondence with said preacher ana
has told the defendant that she loves
said preachers little finger more than
she loves the defendant and that she
intends to continue to correspond with
him as long as she lives.
But that isn't all of Cross sorrows
Continuing he recites:
Defendant further alleges that the
plaintiff is under the influence of said
preacher who is of the Holiness per
ed to be paid by the defendant to the
plaintiff. that she will take the same
and deliver it, or the major part OF
it. to said preacher. That said plain
tiff told defendant she gave $50 of the
$50 paid to her under order of the
court to said Holiness minister"
He Must Name Preacher.
Following these allegations Edwin
McKeever, attorney for the plaintiff,
today filed a motion requiring Cross
to name the preacher who has played
so important a part in the Cross fam
lily affairs. This request must either
be granted, or Cross must withdraw
from the records his charges against
his wife
Il cant say what action will be TAX
en- until I have consulted my client"
said W. E. Atchison. attorney for {
Cross. so far as am concerned,
I am ready to name the man, but will
not do it without a conference with
Cross"
Cross and his wife live in East To- s
peka The husband is night watch ;
man for the Santa Fe. Their fourth
application for a divorce reached the
district court this week.