Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
MARRIED FLOCK
HE SAYS: HOME
BECAME CAGE
Thirteen Years With In
laws" Make Salesman
Plead For Escape

New York-Take it from Raymond
II. Weaver. salesman of automobile
supplies, Hymen pulled n bone when
he persuaded him to slip the golden
band on the finger of Mrs. Caroline
l.. Weaver April 2S, 1905. When a
man marries he takes unto himself
n wife, not a whole flock of rela-
tives. is Weaver's contention as pre-
sented in an answer to his wife's
separation suit
Justice Greenbaum decided that
he would have to pay $25 a week ALI
mony and $11O counsel fee pend
ing the. trial. However. Raymond
had his say Just the same.
For instance, he announced that
his wife was older than he. He ad-
mits that, on OCCASION, he sips of
the flowing bowl. but he SCOTS at
his wife's suggestion that he wrote
her a letter urging that she sue for
divorce and state in her complaint
that he was one of the best pals
Bacchus ever had.
Weaver complains that his wife
burdened him with a mother in-l law,
a brother-in-iaw, a sister-in-law. a
father-in- n-law, a second cousin-in-
law, and a band of other relatives
! in-law.
Found He Married II Group
Weaver's affidavit is its own edi-
torial on the felicities and domes-
ticities of marriage.
AT the time of the marriage, de-
ponent was a very young man, very
much younger than the lady. She
was seven years older. At the time
| of the marriage deponent knew
nothing of his brides family his
! tory and antecedents or position in
! life, having met only her mother
and visited them in Stamford, Conn.
The marriage was brought about
through a friend of the bride, an
elderly woman, who left no stone
unturned to rope in the deponent.
| He found he had married the whole
family began to appear on the hor-
and later other members of the
| familyl began to appear on the hor-
/ izon and seemed to enjoy visiting
| us. They visited us to such an ex-
/ tent that during thirteen years of
our married life we were never alone
! in our home"
! And here comes the rub-or one
/ OF the ruDS:
MY good wife always deported
/ herself toward me as mother
would toward a son she was fond of
! particularly in continuously and
| habitually demonstrating with me
because, in my business as a. sales
man, | had acquired most of the
/ vices that go with the business
While my wife wanted me to spend
the full returns that were produced
! by me through my convivial asso-
\ Citations, she insistently pointed out
/ the error of my ways in manner so
kindly. but none the less inoppor-
! tunely, that l was almost dis
| tracted."
Says He Has Paid Penalty
Weaver insists in his document
that he was always temperate and
( moderate" And, he demands of the
/ court, ''am I to be penalized because
/ | find that / can no longer live with
my wife and retain my reason?"
He continues: True. I have
sincerely hoped that my wife womb
see fit to get divorce. After thir-
J teen years of reflection on my early
indiscretions, | cannot but feel thrt
> | have paid the penalty-an the
/ penalty that a good woman could
require of her victim And nv wife
I is a good woman.
But she is suffering from haIm.
cination. She says that / would
marry again. That is tommy-rot
/ have neither the means nor the
desire to embark on another matri.
monial venture. Do not let me sug-
sest for an instant that [ have re.
!, Elections of an unkindly nature r.
make upon this lady.
For thirteen years l have sun.
/ ported and maintained her. The
property she holds is the best evi.
denee that / have succeeded. She
will not and does not saw that !
have ever been other than cour
teous, respectful or kindly. hnt
have never asked for a return NJ
ahection. have simply pleaded fo,
escape, as if it were from a cage
10 this plea she has been deaf"
outside of that, Weaver has M
kick. III