The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-09-02
oryIEWS CHARGES AND INSISTS
CONDUCT HAS ALWAYS BEEN
PROPER AND CONSIDERABLE.
FvfRY ALLEGATION is DENIED

r,I statement, Beginning Before
Marriage and Up to the Present
Time. of His Relations With His
Wife and Her Family.
Although Mrs. Mary Lizzie Ken
,.or has dismissed her suit for di-
,.,roa and in a public statement with
lawn many of the allegations con-
4,tnad therein and explained others,
a5 has returned to her husband,
prof I L. Kenyon felt that it was
..,.tice 70 himself, to her and to her
,i.-ar that he file the answer he had
aranared to the court and make 1t
record of the court. This was done
4brough his lawyer, Attorney M. c..
rdrards. and is as follows:
Omit Teaching for Domestic Peace.
nafendant says that it is true that
10 has been teacher in some Of the
host schools of this vicinity, that he
hoe received a good salary, and be-
1;oyos that he could continue to re-
,oiro q good salary as such teacher,
br+ that upon the solicitation of his
u,ifo he abandoned school teaching
ond went to his farm; although he
was Qualified as a teacher and not
% farmer, hoping to satisfy the
wishes of his wife, who seriously and
7iooronsly objected to defendant
reading and studying. those books
which we're necessary to keep abreast
of tho time and maintain his position.
His said wife not being an educated
woman seemed to consider the study
If hooks as a sign of idleness and
waste of time, and frequently con-
demned defendant for such studying.
defendant is not now a school teach
or and has not been for two years,
for the simple reason that he thought
nv abandoning this work he could
maintain domestic peace.
As One of the Family.
Defendant says that plaintiff is his
sacond wife; that his first wife was a
cousin of his present wife, and upon
tho death of his first wife he was
loft 70 care for an infant few
months old. His present wife's fam
i1v took him and his child into the
family. cared for the infant until the
time of it's death, and he continued
70 remain in said family as member
of the household upon the same rela-
tiopship with all the children as If he
had been one of the children. Dur
inc his first marriage his wife and
her sister had been frequent visitors
to his home, and he was on intimate
terms with all of them. While Hv-
ing in the home Of his wife's parents
he was on the most intimate terms
with all of the members of the faml-
". treated them as his brothers and
sisters. When he left on visits and
babe them goodbye he kissed plant
if. who has since become his Wlte,
and other members of the family,
including Bertha Averitt, in the pres
ence of her father and mother, and
in the presence of his present Wlfe,
and did likewise when he returned
home. All the girls in the family IN
dealing with him were free and as
innocent as if they had been his own
sisters. Bertha Averitt came to MS
home with the consent of his wife al
ter they had been married, lived
there and went TO school, was treated
by defendant with the knowledge,
consent and acquiesence of pIalntlH
as if she had been defendants SIS
ter. Defendant never suspected lot
moment that plaintiff had any COM
plant or thought she had any COM
plant whatever. Defendant says
that he never built any new room 10
his house in 1913 whatever; that MS
brother had been living in the house
with him and his family and occupied
this room with his own furniture, and
that he moved out, and defendant
having a vacant room installed Few
chairs, bedstead and dresser in the
room, as any other individual would
have done under like circumstances,
but that was several months before
Bertha Ayeritt came there; was done
at the instance, request and wish OF
plaintiff, and done by plaintiff her.
self carrying Bertha Averitt there.
Sister-in-L Law Taken to His Home
by Wife.
Defendant says that it is true that
ne aided his sister-in-law in being
educated Defendant offered to edu-
cate his wife before they were mar
ried, feeling deep interest in her and
ner sister, and knowing that her faith
er was a man of limited means and
unable to give her an education
Plaintiff declined to avail herself OF
This opportunity, and she and de-
lendant afterwards entered into mar
rage. Defendant offered to aid Ber-
ina Ayeritt and Willie Averitt to Sc
cure an education. Willie Averitt al
rewards died, and Bertha AVer1tt,
at the instance of petitioner, was car