Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1878 — Kicked Out of Bed. [ARTICLE]

Kicked Out of Bed.

The divorce suit of Edward W. Cook, of Evansville, Ind., against Minerva Cook was resumed in the Superior Court to-day. One of Mr. Cook’s complaints against his wife was that, in 1871, she kicked him out of bed. He testified that after they had retired for the night she requested him to “move along,” and he did so. Soon afterward he was told to move again, and he kept on doing so until he lnfng on the very edge of the bed. Then Mrs. Cook made a further demand for more room, and, when he told her that lie could not move without falling out of bed, she braced herself up, plunged her feet into the small of his back, and landed him in the middle of the room. Thereafter he thought it safer to occupy the lounge. On his cross-examination it was brought out that he was hanged in effigy in Elgin, 111., for alleged abuse of liis wife, and, as he had told everybody that she had kicked him out of bed, the effigy was placarded with Mrs. Cook’s admonition to “Move along.”— Hartford (67.) (Jourant.