Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1916 — DIVORCE AND ALIMONY SOUGHT [ARTICLE]

DIVORCE AND ALIMONY SOUGHT

By Mrs. Albert Hagenhueh of Benton County. Last Thursday afternoon Mrs. Marian B. Hagenbuch filed suit for divorce from her husband, Albert Hagenbuch. The parties reside on a farm near Swanington and were married August 30, 1809. They are the parents of two children, one son, Amos S., aged 13, and one daughter, Lei a G., aged 13. The complaint charges cruel and inhuman treatment and alleges that he always called the plaintiff vile names and that he has struck her on several different occasions, At other times defendant would shake his fist at her and threaten to strike her. In 1903 the defendant was declared of unsound mind and was an inmate of the Central hospital for the insane until the fall of 1910. Since then until March 9, last, they have lived together. On this date, she^ alleges, he left home for Chicago, saying that he was going to study theosophy. The complaint also charges that he abuses his children and is not a fit person to have their care and custody and on account of such abuse the son has left home and refuses to return. She asks for a divorce, the care and

custody of the children and alimony in the sum of $ 1.000.. The defendant is at present a ’patient at the St. Elizabeth hospital where lie was taken last Thursday after suffering a nervous breakdown at the La hr hotel. Mrs. Hagenbueh was formerly Miss Marian Ferguson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Ferguson of Wadena.—Benton Review