Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — Former Resident Asks For Divorce in Kankakee Court. [ARTICLE]

Former Resident Asks For Divorce in Kankakee Court.

■Charles Elder, son of Dave Elder, and formerly of this city, giving his residence as Momence, 111., has applied in the Kankakee court, asking for a divorce, charging that his wife had deserted him. ■ - In reporting the divorce the . Gazette of Kankakee says:' “Holding that the complainant, Charles Elder, of Momence, in a suit for divorce against his wife, Amy Elder, of Rensselaer, Indiana, had not given his wife sufficient notice that he was suing for divorce, Judge Deselm yesterday erfused to grant the “It developed in the hearing, accdridng to Elder’s own testimony, that he left Rensselaer in 1907 and that when he left he gave his wife his furniture. He declared that his wife left him about the same time, taking with her their three children, all under fourteen years of age. “Elder asked for a divorce on the grounds of desertion. ‘lt looks as though you might have deserted your, wife and family yourself,’ said Judge Deselm, ‘instead of your wife having deserted you.’ * “The case was continued until personal service on Mrs. Elder can be obtained. The man admitted that since leaving Rensselaer he had only sent his wife $10.” Rensselaer people familiar with this' case will remember that Elder was found guilty of wife desertion in 1912 in the local court and sentenced by Judge Hanley for from one to three years in prison at Michigan City. This fact alone would be suffident to keep Elder from obtaining a divorce decree. Elder was arrested at Tpanville. 111., after haying been away from Rensselaer for some time. He was brought back to this county and charged with wife desertion, and was found guilty of the charge. He was taken to prison by the sheriff of Jasper county. '