Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — A Divorce Case. [ARTICLE]

A Divorce Case.

i. WA»w...inyW. A (.livorce was grante«l,.. last Thursiiay, in the Circuit Court, to IdaCE. Hurley from Theodore J. Hurley, on the grounds of cruel treatment, abondomnent and failure to provide. Mrs. Hurley’s maiden name was Ida E; Cavinder, and she was married to the defendant, in Barkley township, on. or about Uro 22nd of November, 1881, she being at the time about 16 or 17 years of age. One child, Elma L. Hurley, who died in June, 1883, was the fruit of this union. According to the plaintiff’s bill of complaint, the defendant not only-failed to provide any support for herself and child during the lifetime of the latter, or for herself after the child’s death; but, furthermore, on the day of January, 1882, and at divers other times, he “abused, cursed and maltreated” the petitioner, and “then and there struck her, called her divers indecent and profane names, and treated- her in all manner indecently and disrespectfully.” The defendant, Hurley, by his attorney, denied “each and every material allegation” of the plaintiff’; but the court, after hearing the evidence, granted the divorce, with permission to the plaintiff to resume her ma idea name; which last she did not retain long enough to 4 be of much use to her, es she was majried again on the second day after the divorce was granted. ‘