Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1913 — MRS. HOMER LAKIN GRANTED DIVORCE [ARTICLE]

MRS. HOMER LAKIN GRANTED DIVORCE

Warmest Separation Buit That Has Occurred in Jasper County for Several Years. • v . * . 'Special Judge Cunningham Tuesday evening granted a divorce to Mrs. Emma Retta Brown Lakin at the conclusion of the most sensational divorce case held in Jasper county during recent years. The defendant was Homer Lakin, son of Frank Lakin, decease<|, and he fought the granting of the divorce with vigor. Mrs. Lakin was only 16 years of age when married. That was two years ago. They lived together . intermittently for a little more than a year. The plaintiff claimed that the husband was abusive in many ways and if what she related was true and the court evidently considered it so, she well deserved the decree of divorce and the restoration of her maiden name to blot out of her young mind the indignities she passed through during her brief married life. Lakin was married once before and has children by that marriage. Th#divorced wife also has one child bom after their separation. She alleged that he procured medicine and tried to force her to take it witha view to preventing the normal birth of the child. Lakin.blamed all the troubles he had With his wife to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Brown and husband, and he has filed a damage suit asking $5,000 for the alieniation of her affections. The result of the divorce will probably limit' the chance of making this suit favorable to him.