Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — FOR ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS [ARTICLE]

FOR ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS

Charles S. Nicholas Sues Wm. S. Parks For Five Thousand Dollar. A very lamentable scandal of nearly three months ago, is now revived by a suit filed thia Thursday morning in tbe oironit court. Charles the plaintiff and Wm, 8. Parks is the defendant. Tbe oomplaint in in three paragraphs, and damages of $5,000 are demanded. The first paragraph state that tbe plaintiff and bia wife Eta Nichols were ([married about 16 years ago. That the defendant, contriving to wrongfully, wiokedly maliciously and unjustly to iajnre the plaintiff, and deprive him of tne comfort fellowship, society, aid and assistance of said wife, and to alienate and destroy her affeotion, did un the 16th day of Angnst >1904, unlawfully, maliciously eto, tempt, peranade, entioe and allnre the eaid Etta Niobolaa, to abandon the plaintiff, his honee and home and to live away, separate and apart from him; whereby her affestion for him was wholly alienated and destroyed; and be deprived fellowship, society, eta, all of whioh would not have been exoept for said defendant’s wrongful acts. The second paragraph alleges that for 18 months the defendant had been poisoning the said wife’s mind against tae plaintiff oansing her to dislike him. That defendant persisted in his attentions, and visited her in plaintiff’s absence, though plaintiff had forbade bis wife baviag anything 'to do with him] That finally on the 16th of Angnst she abandoned tbe plaintiff and waa joined by]the]defendant and he traveled with her several days and they have not lived together sinoe. The third paragraph is short and alleges that on certain blank days of Angnst 1903, the defendant was criminally intimate with tbe said Etta Niobolaa. Baughman & Williams are the at'omeye for tbe plaintiff.