Weekly journal-miner., 1918-01-23
YOUNG WIFE |S DEPENDANT IN
 DIVORCE SUIT
GEORGE w. HANSE, PROM INENT CAMP VERDE RES DENT, ACCUSES SPOUSE OF CRUELTY AND WANTS MARRIAGE DISSOLVED.
(From Thursdays DaiIy.0

l Sudy DdliJ.J George w. Hanse of Camp Verde, one of the best known residents of this county, yesterday afternoon filed suit in the Superior court asking for divorce from Evelyn c. Hance, to whom he was married in August, 1917. The complaint filed by Mir. Hanse reveals the fact that the do- mestic life of the plaintiff and his young wife has been anything but a happy one, and also sets forth the fact that Mrs. Hance has refused to live with her aged husband, regard less Of the fact that the latter had dccdcd her a large amount of real and personal property during the past months.
 Hance, who is 76 years of age. was married to the defendant on August IA. 1917, and the complaint states that the god of love jumped his job on or about the 20th day of Decem- Der, at which time the kitchen of the family home at Camp Verde was the scene of pitched battle between Hanse and his wife, the latter, accord ing to the complaint getting the best of the conflict For several days prior to the date mentioned, Mrs. Hancc had been away, and on that day, she returned and told the plain tiff thlt she had come home for the purpose of getting the rest of his property, and that if he did not hurry up and die from apoplexy, she would finish the job by killing him. There upon, the complaint states, Mrs. Hanse picked up piece of stove wood and hit her husband on the back of the head, knocking him to { the floor. She then siezed a granite dipper and struck him several blows over the head, adding further to his riscomfiture. When he attempted to get up, she made a pass at him with a butcher knife and inflicted a severe wound upon his scalp. Following this. the wife is said to have taken up hammer and dealt a few moro blows upon various parts of her hus- bands person. and left him in such state that he had to call in a phy- sician.
 As further cause for action, the complaint states that although the couple were married for a period of more than five months, the bride spent cnly about 30 nights at home, and or these nights, she locked her self in her bedroom and denied her | husband access to her boudoir. Sev- eral months ago, Mir. Hansc declares Mrs. Hanse ran away from home and he later located her at Globe, in a pennilcss condition. He promised her that # she would come home and live with him again. he would deed her q half-;nterest in certain real estate which he owned She agreed to come home, and the deeds were made, Tut the wife failed to keep her part of the contract and left Mir Hansc few days later, her present whereabouts being unknown to her husband.
 The court is asked to dissolve the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant and to set aside the deeds through which part of the plaintiffs holdings had been assigned to the defendant
 Mir. Hanse has been resident of Yavapai county for more than g years, and is quite wealthy. His mar riage 10 the present wife was his second venture into the realms oi matrimony
 Foreclosure Suit.
 The H. w. Johns-Manville Cor poration of California yesterday brought suit to foreclose lien which had been placed some time ago against some property owned by the Independent Meat Company of Je- rome, the complaint alleging that tho plaintiff had furnished a bill of goods to the contractors, Horstman X Plomert, who erected the building for the meat company. The plaintiff alleges that there is still the sum of i SSS6 winch remains unpaid on the ac- count, and the court is asked to order the lien closed so that the company may be reimbursed.