Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1913 — ISABELLE GAIN SUES HUSBAND TOR DIVORCE [ARTICLE]

ISABELLE GAIN SUES HUSBAND TOR DIVORCE

Couple Married Fourteen Tears Ago Separated May sth and She Asks Legal Separation. Joseph P. Cain, farmer, has been fnade the defendant in a divorce suit filed the past week by his wife, Isabelle Cain. S C. Irwin is the plaintiffs attorney. The complaint sets out that they were married December 27, 1899, and lived together until May sth, when she left him, she alleges-becaues of his habitually cross, sullen and abusive treatment. She states that during long periods 1 he refused to speak to her, and scolded, abused and villifled her and on one occasion called her a

■ - fool.” Tiiat he also used other profane and opprobrious epithets toward her and threatened to whip her. She alleges that she was always faithful in her marital duties and helped with the farm work, making garden, feeding stock and doing general farm work. She says that he was always trying to find fault with what she did and especially for the ,past two years had been cruel, abusive and inhuman until her health had become affected. , ■'

Then, to quote from the complaint, this treatment “produced a conditipriAof her nervous system which has made it impossible to' longer endure the cold, contemptuous, indifferent, abusive and threatening conduct otf said defendant.” A son, 10 years of age, is in the care of the defendant. She asks a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name, Isabelle Hardy. They were married in Keokuk, lowa. 1 The plaintiff has been employed at the Rensselaer hotel since she left her husband.