Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — VALUE OF A WIFE IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

VALUE OF A WIFE IN INDIANA.

It is at last definitely settled what the legal value of a wife is in Indiana, or, at least, what it is in the proud “Slate of Jasper.” Last Sunday a man was committed to jail from Lake township for stealing a wife and other property to the amount of ten dollars. What the value of that “other property” was we do not know, but suppose it was about nine dollars and ninety-nine cents, which would make the wife very dear at that. The following is a c ;py of the affidavit on which the relentless wife-thief was arrested: “Stale of Indiana Jasper county “Now comes the said plaintiff Jacob Loux and files his affidatid and upon his oath says that a bout the first of June 1859 Came the said'John karns the defendant and steals away his wife willfully knowinaly and mischievously Garry her away by Nigh and other goods to wit Clothing of wearing appearl and bed Clothing and other property to the amount of ten dollars and Carried said wife and said property by night to the state of Illinois and yet keeps said wife and said property Conceald from the State of Indiana and further sayeth not this the 21th day of June 1859 Jacob X Loux” Sheriff Phillips took the unfortunate John karns down to the Lafayette jail for safekeeping. Sicli is life!