The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-11
Man Suing for Divorce Says
Wife Proposed to Him.
I'll. ID. Hamilton Declares He
Didn't Know Her Past.
TELLS OF A SECRET MEETING
He Alleges Wife Was Friendly
With Another Man.
He Didn't Follow Her Because
He Feared BlOOdshed.

When a woman-a W1doW-pro-
poses to a mana widower-and he
accepts her, Henry D. Hamilton, wild
over of many troubles, doesn't think
the widow has any business suing for
a divorce Consequently he filed in
the district court today an answer and
cross petition to his wife's petition for
a divorce. He asks that the court in
quire into all the circumstances, then
find that he, and not his wife, is en-
titled to the decree.
Mrs Hamilton, who until April 10,
1916, was Mrs. Mary Fair told OF
tempestuous matrimonial voyage last
ing little more than a year, IN her
petition. Mr.. Hamilton goes her one
better 1t is gathered from his petit
ton that one storm followed upon the
heels of the other in such rapid sue
cession that the vessel carrying their
domestic hopes never had a chance to
right herself after the first blow.
After the first month there were few
gentle zephyrs. From that time on
cyclones tornadoes, water spouts and
typhoons appear to have been mixed
into one grand display.
Hamilton's Charges.
To begin with, Hamilton charges
that his wife of year is possessed
of a violent, vicious. irascible and I'M
comfortable temper, which causes her
frequently and with uncomfortable
regularity to plunge into maniacal
frenzy. And while under the stress
of such frenzy. he states, his wife of
a year possesses few of the attributes
and propensities of devoted wife and
mother. Added to that, he says, is
the fact that she is insanely jealous
and suspicious without cause.
did not learn until after he was mar
ried, otherwise there would have been
no wedding bells. He gives it as his
opinion and Information that these
failings were the cause of the domes-
tic difficulties in two former mar
riages and that he was selected as the
third victim.
Hamilton lodges most of the re-
sponsibility for the wedding He states
that it took place at Mrs Hamilton's
solicitation and request-that she pro-
posed. They were married April 10,
1916 and all went well until May 20 of
the same year when, he says, he learn
ed of a clandestine meeting between
his wife and another man" On that
occasion, he says, the other man
agreed to meet her again June Is and
Hamilton laid his plans accordingly.
He Watched Wife.
81 said nothing about it," Hamilton
says in substance, but on June Is 1
tried to get my wife to come to To-
pleaded the press of homework and
did not come"
Hamilton then did a little sleuthing
on his own accord. He doesn't tell
just how he learned of everything of
which he tells but he saws in spite of
the press of housework his wife left
their house in Oakland at noon that
day and that he saw her leave the car
at the Santa Fe depot.
II did not follow her." he says, "for
the reason that L wished to avoid
bloodShed. That morning before she
came to Topeka, 1 went to our family
doctor and told everything I knew.
Soon after my wife reached town she
telephoned the doctor and he said to
her: For Gods sake get home quickly.
Hamilton has gun and is onto your
meeting She went home. The next
day the other man went to the doc
tors office and demanded to know
why he had prevented him from meet
ing Mary. He said he was able to
take care of himself"
Hamilton says that when he went
home that night he charged his wife
with the attempted meeting and she
denied everything. Then, he says. he
told her what he knew and what he
had seen and she flew into a rage but
admitted the things he charged.
"other man" pretended a great friend
ship for Mrs. Hamilton's nine-year- old
daughter, Irene, and began sending
her letters, thru which communication
with Mrs. Hamilton was continued.
Temper Was a Habit.
After the first display of temper on
the part of his wife Hamilton says it
became a habit; that since then she
has used violent and profane language
in the presence of his children and
that on one occasion she started a
rumpus in his grocery store at 632
Quincy street, that was heard clear
across the street. He charges that
while he was on trial in the district
court, facing a white slave charge
| brought by Mrs. Stella Azlein, a mar
ried woman and mother of several
| children, his wife was in communica-
! ton with the county attorneys Office
| and gave the state whatever Informal
ton she had that would damage him.
| In answer to her charge that he
| gave her no money he states that in
two months and ten days he gave her
| S94, none of which was used for
| household purposes. and that she took
| $40 out of the cash register at his gro
Gerry store He charges that she read
! and destroyed all his mail that went
| to the house, that she frequently at
| tackled him and failing to injure him
| physically charged him with attacking
| her.
! All he asks for is divorce but his
| petition indicates that he wants it
| badly. His attorney is Ed Rooney
| who defended him in the criminal suit
tried last winter.
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