Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1916 — LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM IS CRUELLY SHATTERED [ARTICLE]

LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM IS CRUELLY SHATTERED

High School Romance Ends in the Divorce Courts. New suits filed: No. 8587. Pauline Duvall vs. Samuel Duvall; action for divorce. The above lines tell the story of a part of the closing chapters of a high school romance which ended the peace and happiness for the family of Rev. P. C. Curnick, pastor of the Trinity M. E. church of this city. The plaintiff in the case is the eldest daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Curnick, and came here with her parents in the fall of 1913 from Terre Haute, where her father' had been pastor of a large church congregation. ISoon after coming to Rensselaer an attachment sprung up between the daughter and Samuel O. Duvall, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall of. this city, who was a high school student at that time. Both were quite young and in order to avoid any parental objections they eloped the next spring to Kalmazoo, Mich., where they xvere married June 17, 1914, returning to Rensselaer soon thereafter and taking up their abode for some time with the parents of the bride, but later going to keeping house by themselves and living together until January 27 of this year, when they separated and the wife was taken by her father to the home of an uncle at or near Evansville.

Some ten days ago young Duvall filed a suit for $1 5,000 damages for aleniation of the affections of his said wife against both the parents and the uncle with whom she was staying at the time. Last week the young wife returned to ltenssealer, and Saturday through I her attorneys, Dunlap and Halleck, j filed the above suit for divorce, [charging in her complaint a series of continued ill treatment and abuse perhaps never before equaled in any divorce complaint ever filed in this court. Among the specific charges made lin the complaint, which is qute [lengthy, are these: That less than , two weeks after their marriage her , husband cursed her and struck her ■ with his fist on a public street in ■ Rensselaer, without any provocation | other than that she had spoken to an acquaintance whom she had met on the street when with the defendant after defendant had forbidden her Ito speak to said acquaintance; that j shortly after their marriage they went ;to Michigan and while on said trip | defendant became angry at plaintiff |and cursed her and struck her with j his fist; that after their return from TMlchigan they took u’p their resij dence with plaintiff’s parents, where j they lived lor some time, occupying rooms in their home and eating from the same table wish her parents, and that defendant paid no board nor rent while there, but that he frequently cursed and abused her and threatened to strike her. that he cursed plaintiff’s father and mother to her: that on one occasion defendant struck plaintiff and knocked her down; that at one time he called on i plaintiff’s father to come and get

her and take her away, but when her father came defendant had changed his mind and refused to let her go with her father; that plaintiff expected to attend the high school commencement exercises in Rensselaer in 1915, and while preparing to go! the defendant pushed her violently j against a door and her head struck the doorknob and one eye was badly ’ blackened and she was compelled to remain at home; that on January 27 j the defendant became angry with' her, wholly without cause, cursed the plaintiff in the presence of her mother and struck both plaintiff and her mother with his fist; that on the same date defendant sent for plaintiff s father and- told him that he and plaintiff had had trouble and had decided to separate; that defendant wanted plaintiff's iather to take Plaintiff away and keep her at his home or send her to Evansville, that “she was making a hell of his life,” and plaintiff’s father said, “this is a serious matter, Sam, do you know what you are saying?” That on the same day plaintiff went to the home of her parents and that while there defendant packed up most of his wearing apparel with some of plaintiff's in a trunk to be taken away; that most of the time during their married life defendant run a hack line between Rensselaer and Remington and that said hack business and the aqtos used in conducting same \y«re paid for by plaintiff's father; that defendant frequently left to drive on said line in good. temper, but on his return would be in an

angry mood and would curse and frequently strike plaintiff with his fist while in such moods, and she became afraid of him and dreaded his return; that while defendant made from $25 to SSO a week in said hack business he never gave plaintiff to exceed $3 per week to maintain the house, that on one occasion defandant made a trip to Indianapolis for a few days taking S4O with him and leaving plaintiff but 35 cents; that he failed and refused to furnish plaintiff money to buy herself wearing apparel when she was in actual need of same, but would, sometimes, after cursing and striking her, purchase useless and expensive articles of his own notion and bring home to her as a peace offering, articles which she had no need for and could not possible use; that defendant refused to pay any bills for plaintiff, and that her father to avoid embarrassment for her on account of bills owed by defendant, had paid hills of the latter, none of which were contracted for plaintiff, and that he had paid more than SI,OOO of such bills for defendant.

Plaintiff asks for a divorce, the restoration of her maiden name, Pauline Curnick, and that she be given possession of cooking untensils and other articles of household and kitchen furniture which were given her by her parents and which are now held by defendant'.