Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — Erwin Versus Erwin. [ARTICLE]

Erwin Versus Erwin.

A new divorce case just filed in the circuit court for the September term, is that of John E. Erwin vs Julia B. Erwin. The plaintiff is universally known as Ed Erwin. The couple were married in February 1882 and was a runaway marriage, in Michigan, after a long and stormy courtship, there being violent opposition on the part of parents, and the bride being quite young. They lived together until Dec. 2nd, 1897, when, according to the complaipt. the defendant wholly abandoned the plaintiff. Besides the abandonment, the complaint alleges oruel and inhuman treatment in the way of neglect while the plaintiff was sick, and also the use of language toward him which he will not repeat to the sensitive ears of the court unless it is insisted upon. The complaint further plainly intimates that the plaintiff has a still stronger card up his sleeve, which he will produce if compelled to do so. In other words it says there are other grounds he can prove, if the court does not find the matters alleged in the complaint sufficient. The defendant has left the state, and the last letter he received from her she was at South Chicago. She took her two sons with her, but afterwards sent them back; and Donald 15 years old, lives with Mrs. Drake, just south of town, and Frederick 13 years old, with Isaac Blake, near Remington. They have good homes and the plaintiff wants their legal custody, so that he can keep them there.