Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1913 — Another Side of the Sayler Family Trouble. [ARTICLE]

Another Side of the Sayler Family Trouble.

Lawrence Sayler, who works on the J. J, Lawler farm, and who is charged by his wife, Mrs. Belle Sayler, with desertion and cruel treatment last Friday, has written his side of the story and asks that it be published in The Republican. He says: “As to my paving struck or knocked her down ’twice, I absolutely deny such charges. I did not at any time touch or lay my hands on Mrs. Sayler until she attacked me and tried to choke me on the street. . 1? ■ . v --—y “As to my trying to take the little girl, that is true, but I f would not have tried to take Lula had it not been for the treatment, that she was receiving from Mrs. Sayler. At the time this affair started and in the street when Mrs. Sayler attacked me I only removed her hands from my throat and held them. She had some of my clothes In bad condition and as I did not want to go down town almost naked, I had to do something, and I held her hands because of her threats. As to my little girl in the buggy, she could have left at any rime during this affair if she had chosen to do so, but as Lula did not leave, the buggy Mrs. Sayler ordered her older daughter to take Lula from the buggy, which she did in the same manner and treatment that Lula was receiving when this affair started. My additional charges will he stated later.—Lawranee Sayler, Pleasant Ridge, Ind.”