Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1904 — CODY ASKS DIVORCE. [ARTICLE]

CODY ASKS DIVORCE.

SAYS HE IS AFRAID WIFE WILL POISON HIM. "BtiffaloBill" Wonts Lcjol Separation from Woman lie Married Thirty* eight Years Ago—Great Tunnel Under Hudson River Is Completed. Col. William F. Cody (“Buffalo BUT"! has asked a divorce from liis wife, to whom he was married thirty-eight years ago after a romantic courtship. He dkttlgey her with cruelty and haying made an attempt tQ poison hint, Mss. Cody denies the accusation and declares she will contest the suit. She goes even farther, and. while declaring her iovalty to her husband, promises she will disclose chapters in his life that will not do hint credit. The suit has caused much surprise in North Flatte, Neb. The papers were filed two months ago in Wyoming, but Col. Cody .kept, the matter secret. Col. Cody met his wife in St. Louis at the close of the Civil War. She was a belle, wealthy and a leader in the set whose fealty had been pledged to the lost cause. The' scout pushed his suit with all the dash that had gained him fame in the field, and. despite the oh-, jeetions of the young woman's parents, they wen? married. They have had five sons, all of whom are dead. Col. Cody, by his dashing work as scout in the Indian campaigns in the West, his marvelous execution with the rifle in supplying meat for the workmen linking the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans with the steel bands of the Union Pacific Railroad and his later success in Amen ica and throughout the civilized world with liis “Wild West” show, is an international character. He is almost ns well known in London, Paris and Berlin as on the streets of North Plat: or the rolling plains of Wyoming, where one of his largest ranches is situated.