The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-04-12
SAYS TWO men
ASSAULTED Them
IN WIFE'S HOME
John Lantz, German Resi-
dent, Files Divorce Against
Wife on Charge of Alleged
Improper Conduct.

John Lantz, who has been making
his home at KennepohPs boarding
house since March Is, lodged a COM
plant with Prosecutor Keller today
against his wife and step-daughter, al
leging improper conduct, and against
two men, whom he claimed, attacked
him last night in front of his, wife's
home
Lantz is a laboring man. He has
been married fourteen years, and says
he has been in police court twice for
trying to protect himself against his
wife's attacks.
In broken German he said: Nov
for the last ten years, when she throws
the coffee pot at me, laugh. Her
first husband laughed, too, until it
got too heavy, and then he left"
Complains Against Woman.
His special complaint was against
his step-daughter, Mrs. Eva Hewitt
Rosert-BromleyMag whose arriv-
al in Richmond, March IS, heralded
trouble, Lantz says.
The old German admitted he tam
pered with his wife's mail and thus Sc
cured evidence that something would
happen when the step-daughter came.
The letter he intercepted has been de-
stroyed, but its contents were read to
Lantz by a friend.
Lantz said the letter notified. his
wife that the step-daughter was to
leave a man named Frank Ross, of
Fort Wayne, and come to live in Rich
mond. After he had read the letter,
he said, his wife caught him with it
and jerked it from his hand, but tore
it in two pieces in so doing.
The daughter arrived March Is, as
announced in the letter. When Lantz
reached home that night he found it
dark and empty. Only some of his
clothing was there. He said that re-
Gently he learned that his wife and
Mrs. Magarro were living at 81 Rail-
road street
Tells Of Attack.
Il went up there last night to talk
things over with her once more" Lantz
said. Il thought there might be one
chance to settle our troubles, but now
am going to get an attorney and have
divorce papers filed. Two men came
from the house, and I asked them
what they were doing there. They did
not say anything at first, and l asked
them who they knew in there. Then
the little one with the dark moustache
said, Ssh that's her husband and
then he hit me. I tried to help myself,
but they jumped on me. do not know
who they are, but l have them both
marked"
Lantz wanted the police to help him
identify the men for the purpose of
filing assault and battery charges
against them.
Lantz said his step-daughter is 35
years old She began her matrimonial
career with Charles ("Popcorn Char
ley'D Hammond, a well-known cripple.
who operated a newsstand here for
years. She was divorced from him
and married Walter Rossert of Middle
town. After this alliance had been
legally terminated, she married Wal
ter Bromley of this city. Bromley kill
ed himself at his home on North Sec
ond street. Her last matrimonial ven
ture was with Tony Magarro, an Ital-
ian railroad laborer. Lantz said she
left Magarro in the spring of 1914.
She has been away from Richmond
since that time, he said.
The police will make an effort, with
the assistance of Lantz, to find the two
men who struck him last night, and
will straighten out his difficulties if
possible.
He has also asked Mrs. Gambler, Sec
rotary of the board of children's guard
ians. to petition the court to grant him
custody of his four children immedi-
ately to prevent them from being in
fluenced against him while the divorce
suit is pending. The eldest is IA.