The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12
She Wanted New Home.

| captain Coney AYERS that soon after
| their marriage his bride demanded
| that they purchase, a new home,
| whereas. heNsays, he had Informed her
| before their marriage that his finan-
ciaI condition would not permit it and
| that it hsTas agreed they. were to live
fin his old home, upstairs over BIG
Kansas avenue. He says she demand
her, and complained to acquainta noes
because he would not give her more.
While he was at Warsaw, Mo, on
business March so, he says, he re-
ceived a letter from her couched in
the most loving terms, and stating
that she was leaving his home tax
ing with her all the belongings she
had brought with her when she came
to live with him. When he returned,
he says, she had gone, but left him a
loving note in which no reference to
her departure was made. A short
time later, he says. he was advised
thru an attorney that she demanded
$4,000 alimony and divorce money.
Captain Coney declares that prior
to their marriage she had no other
home than the state soldiers home
and that her manifestations of affec-
ton for him were made solely for the
purpose of getting him to marry her.
Didn't Appreciate Paintings.
Mrs. Coney. on the other hand, COM
plains that her husband did not ap
preciate her oil paintings, the prod
ucts of her own hand. She declares
that the walls of his home were hung
with cheap Autographs. prints, wood
cuts of battle scenes, war generals and
mementoes of a miscellaneous nature,
and that they were wholly without
artistic merit She says he would not
allow her to replace them with the
fine oil paintings. and even capped the
climax by suggesting that she hang
her works of art in the kitchen.
Neither would he allow her to move
the furniture to please herself, she al
leges, but demanded that everything
be left exactly as his first wife was
accustomed to have it. The doings of
the former Mrs. Coney. she AYERS, he
set as a standard for her observance.
The wife asserts in her answer that
there was operated on the third floor
of the building in which they lived, a
place where she was informed intoxi-
eating liquors were sold. A stairway
on one side of the building, she says,
leads to their own apartment, while
that on the other side leads to the
persons seeking liquid refreshment
would get into the wrong stairway,
knock at her door and deman liquor.
Signed AntcnuptiaI Contract.
Mrs. Coney says she signed an ante
nuptiaI agreement with Coney where
of his property, but AYERS that she did
so at his own request and. as he rep
resented it, ito safe-gu his business
interests" She declares he wrote her
voIuminous letters explaining the mat
ter, but that she did not understand
his technical phraseology- She alleges
that he owns several thousand acres
of land in Benton county, Missouri, in
addition to real estate and town lots |
in other states, together with much |
personal property In the agreement, |
she says, this property was valued at |
500, 900.
She asks that the antenuptial agree
ment be set aside by the court and /
that she be allowed permanent all |
nony and support out of his estate, to-
gether with attorneys fees and costs /
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