Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-17
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
Lila WeIshimer VS.. Robert Ross WeIshimer
In the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County.
No. 119 Equity Divorces

No. 1T9 Equity Divorces.
To ROBERT ROSS WELSHIMER. a non
resident, defendant:
The object of this suit is to obtain a de-
cree divorcing the said Lila Welshimer
from the said Robert Ross Welshimer.
The Bill states % that she was married
to the defendant Robert Ross Welshimer,
in the City of Annapolis, Maryland, on the
hundred and eight, and that ever since
that date and until the twentieth day of
and sixteen, she and the defendant, her
husband, have lived and resided at sever
al different army stations within the linn
its of the United States, except during one
tour of duty when the defendant was as
signed to duty in the Philippine Island
possessions of the said United Statse; %
that there were no children born as a re-
suit of said marriage; Cd that ever since
her said marriage she has behaved and con-
Quoted herself as an affectionate, faithful
and chaste wife towards the defendant;
"a that often throughout her married
life and more particularly during the last
several years thereof, her husband has
treated her with harshness and cruelty
acting towards her with great indifIer-
ence, reYiling her with abusive and pro-
fame epithets, and by so doing the de-
PENDANT has greatly and constantly dis
tressed and grieved your oratriX. destroy
ed her happiness and peace of mind and
impaired her health and well being gener-
ally; 90 that your oratrix will show
that several months ago, to wit, on or be-
fore the 9TH day of March, 1917, the de-
since said abandonment by said defendant
your oratriN has been left destitute of all
means of support, and dependent solely
upon the charity of Lieutenant Command
er Ralph c. Needham, L. S. Navy,
brother Flaw, for her maintenance and
support, and that the only money that
your oratriX has received from the defend
ant, her husband, since December 20, 1916
was check for fifty dollars $4,000,
which your oratriX cashed and applied the
proceeds thereof to her support; 90 that
the defendant refused and still refuses to
cord1ng to the means of the defendant
and according to his and her sta
ton and position in life, although
he holds commission as a captain
in the United States Army from
which he derives an ample salary from
which he could afford to provide sufficient
your oratrix as his wife; ca that she not
only has no means wherewith to support
and maintain herself, but no means where
with 10 compensate her solicitor and
counsel for his legal services or to defray
the expenses and costs of this proceed
ing and she is advised that it is proper
and equitable that this Honorable Court
should order the defendant to supply her
with sufficient and appropriate funds for
capacity and resources: 90 that the said
defendant, Robert Ross Welshimer is a
nonresident of this State. residing now,
according to your oratrix's best inforIna-
ton and belief, at Old Point Comfort i'm
the State of Virginia; (9) that there is a
suit for divorce now pending in tho cir
cult Court Of the County of Cumberland
in the State of Illinois. which was insti-
tuted by Robert Ross Welshimer, the de-
PENDANT, against your oratrix, the pI9jn-
tiff in this proceeding.
To the end, therefore.
ID That your oratrix may be divorced
mensa ct thoro from the defendant her
husband, the said Robert Ross Wei
simmer:
,C2;) That the defendant may be order
ed by this Honorable Court to nav TO
your oratrix such sum or sums of money
according TO his income and financial re-
sources as alimony pendente lite as NAV
be deemed proper and sufficient to main
tain and support your oratrix. as afore-
said, during the tendency Of these pro-
ceedings, and also compensate her solicit
costs thereof.
81 That your oratrix may have sucb
other and further relief her case may
require.
1t is thereupon this 22nd day Of March.
in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen
by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
county, IN Equity, ordered that the plain
TN. by causing a copy Of this order TO be
inserted IN some newspaper published in
Anne Arundel County, Maryland. once In
each OF TOUR successive weeks before the
18th day Of April, next. giving notice to
the said Robert Ross Welshiner. non-res-
ldent defendant. of the object Of this suit
and the substance Of said bill of com
plant, and thereby warning him to ap-
pear IN TINS Court in person or by solici-
tor on or before the
18th DAY OF MAY, 1918.
70 answer the premises and show cause.
II any there be- why a decree should not
be passed as prayed.
GEO. WELLS Clerk.
ms 1t 1tw GEO. WELLS. Clerk.