The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-10-13
|C0URT GRANTS
RUFF FREEDOM
Retired Medina Farmer Relates
Long and Narrowing
Tale of Woe
CHARGED THAT WIFE
TRIED TO FLEECE HIM
And That the Captain of a Yes
sci on Which They Crossed
the Atlantic Looked
Good to Her

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VIM. Ruff of Medina is once more
free from all marital membranes.
Save for memories that may at times
cause him to "shudder and grow sick
at heart" his troubles uxorious were
ended last Saturday when Judge N.
H. Mcclure issued a decree releasing
him as husband to Katharine Ruff.
Kuff's story to the court had many
Of the thrills of Bill Hart scenario,
which It took him the better part of
a half day to relate, and which COW
erred q honeymoon trip to Roumania,
during which he was subjected to the
discontinue Of alleged wifely in
confluence, attempted robbery, and
Imprisonment in the home of his
Roumanian mother-in-law.
\ Ruff and Katharine were married
in New York city May 20, 1920. At
the time Ruff stated that he had
$1,000 on his person, half of which
was in green-backs. 1t was Ruff's
purpose, he says, to postpone mar
.riage unti after their arrival in
Roumania, but the woman was SO in
sistent especially after Ruff had
promised her handsome sum as soon
as they were wed, that he was finally
persuaded to accede to her wishes and
the knot was forthwith tied.
! Now for the first denoument. They
passed their first night together at
"a hotel. Ruff sleeps soundly, but
evidently awakens with ease whers
his hard-earned dollars are at stake.
AT an hour in the morning consider
ably eaSlier than brides and grooms
are wont to arise, Ruff says he sensed
a human hand working it's way
underneath his pillow where was Sc
creted the $2500. Grabbing the
member and following it with his
hands and eyes to the top he beheld
the form and face of Katharine.
Ruff said this was too much for him
and he called off the trip abroad,
sent his money back to Medina and
started for home.
A few months later Katharine
came IA Cleveland, Ruff went up to
see har, they made up, the money
was again taken from the bank and
the 'Ruffs set out for Roumania.
Now for denoument No. 2. The
vessel, had rot proceeded far on the
voyage until Ruff says he discovered
Katharine making goo-goo eyes at
the captain and later with one of the
physicians. One night when midway
of the Atlantic, said Ruff, after he
and his wife had been to bed for sew
eral hours, he was awakened and OBJ
served his wife in a komono stand
ing before the mirror adjusting her
coiffure ard painting and powdering
her face. When he asked her where
she was going, Ruff says she replied
that she was going to the toilet. Ruff
says he told her it was the first time
he ever knew that call such as she
was going to make required extra
ordinary personal adornment. New
ertheless, she went out, said Ruff,
and didn't come back for two or three
hours. These actions Ruff stated he
was, unable to reconcile with true
conjpgal affection.
The itinerary Of the Ruffs took
them through the Mediterranean sea,
touching Italy, the isles Of Greece,
thru the Dardenelles to Constantin-
ople and the Black sea to the Rou-
'manian coast.
The brides home was some distance
inland and in Difference to her
wishes, said Ruff, the trip there was
SO timed that arrival was made at
right. Ruff says he hadn't been in
town but a day Or two until various
citizens told him, figuratively, that
"the goblins would get him if he
didn't watch out" In other words
that his wife had a notorious record
In her home town and that any sem
lblance of affection she manifested
toward him, Ruff, was merely to CON
jole him into letting 90 Of his good
money. ~
That there might be q grain Of
truth to these statements finally
dawned upon Ruff, especially after
his wife and folks had locked him Ia
a bedroom FOR several hours while, as