The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-07
MRS. ROSE GENNETT
SEAGER FILES FOR
DIVORCE; CRUELTY

| Alleging abandonment and cruel
Gennett Seager filed suit for divorce
from Robert Arthur Seager in Wayne
circuit court Wednesday, Mrs. Seager
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Genett, Richmond. MIR. Gennett is
president of the Starr Piano company
Mr.. and Mrs. Seager were married
| in Los Angeles, Calf. March 5. 1919.
They had known each other as chill
! dren, both having attended the publis
schools in Richmond.
During the war, in which Seager
served as a major of infantry and was
badly gassed, they began a corre-
spondence leading up to a romance
eliminating in their marriage last
year.
Brings Out Damage Suit
In her complaint Mrs. Seager AYERS
that her husband abandoned her at a
summer cottage in the east August
25, 1919. and that he brought legal ac-
tton against her mother. alleging she
had alienated the affections of Mrs.
Seager, causing him to lose the serv-
ices of his wife, and asking $50, 900
| damages.
The complaint alleges that later
Seager caused this suit to be dis
missed, and that he admitted it had
been commenced without any just
cause or foundation.
Mrs. Seager asks for an absolute
divorce and that the defendant be
! permanently barred and divested OF
any or all rights or interested by way
! Of In DF
her property, real or personal"
She alleges that her husband has
never returned to her and that he re-
fuses to disavow alleged wrongful
! treatment of her.
Says He AssaiIed Her.
Mrs. Seager sets forth in her COM
plant that her husband first abandon
ed her and then 'assailed her at a
time and in a manner that was bru-
tai and shocking" and that she was
compelled to return to her parents
Frustrated in spirit and menaced by
a complete breakdown in health.
Mrs. Seager AYERS that she was not
in robust health and was, in fact.
scarcely stronger than a convalescent
at the time of her marriage; that
about August Is. last, she required
special care, medical attention and
nursing, and that her husband grew
unsympathetic, impatient and veXed
declaring her illness feigned.
Mrs. Seager says in her compla int
that on Aug. % her husband clandes-
timely left their summer cottage, tax
ing with him his personal effects. She
AYERS that later Seager, without dis
closing his whereabouts, sent mes
sage to her that "he was through
and had gone" and that she could
see his lawyer.
1t is alleged in the complaint that
Seager sent his lawyer to see her
while she was bedfast and that he
greatly agitated her by his intimations
Of pending hostile legal action.
1t is alleged by Mrs. Seager that her
husband continued to "browbeat, hurt
and mortify her" and brought suit for
damages against her mother.
Both Are Well Known.
Both Major Seager and Mrs. Seager
are we'll known in Richmond, although
Major Seager has not claimed resid
ence in Richmond for number OF
years. After his graduation from the
Richmond high school he went to the
West Point Military Academy
After serving in the army for time
Major Seager went into business but
accepted a commission in the army a.
the outbreak of the late war. He i:
!, row said to be a resident of New
York.