Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1903 — Mollie’s Marriage With Middleton . [ARTICLE]

Mollie’s Marriage With Middleton .

Lasted Just Six Days, Now a Divorce is Wanted. The sadden and wholly unexpected and surprising marriage of Miss Mary Weathers, deputy postmaster at Rensselaer, with her old but supposed rejeoted suitor, Ernest Middleton, and with it the rejection of a supposed more favored and more favorable young man in Lafayette, will be remembered by our readers. It ooonred at Hammond on Monday, Sept. 14th. They took up their abode in Chicago, and just six days later, the young wife left her husband and returned to her home in Rensselaer, and not long thereafter went to relatives in Lafayette, where she now is. The sequel of her sudden separation, after a matri monial experience whioh sets a new oounty reoord for briefness, is a divorce suit just filed in the oirouit court here, by a Lafayette attorney, Fred Eimmel. The grounds of the divorce, as alleged, are oruel and inhuman treatment; the details whereof are set out at considerable length in the complaint. Profane and vulgar talk, indeoent stories and especially anoedotes of his previous varied exploits, are some of these details. The others, are all along this same line only more so. Also he is said to have flourished a loaded revolver, on one oooasion, to inorecss the force of his arguments. The young woman’s proper maiden name, as stated io the o< m plaint, was Mary H. Wiltshire.