Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1905 — GUY OUT-GUYS HIMSELF. [ARTICLE]

GUY OUT-GUYS HIMSELF.

FILES A NE» PARAGRAPH IN HIS DIVORCE Complaint. SO HOT IT NEEDS TO BE KEPT ON ICE, OR IT WOULD SET THE COURT HOUSE ON FIRE. Jasper Guy, of Remington has again had his innings in the war between himself and bis wife and has filed another installment o f his divorce complaint, It is called Paragraph No. 2, oonsists of eight large typewritten pages, aDd contains about 8,000 words —and mostly with the bark on them.

Indfed the dooumeut is such a hot number that the advisability of keeping it on ice to keep it from burning the court heu-e, is under consideration. It recites the plainliff’s marriage to defendant on May 28, 1896. States that she represented herself to be a virtuous and moral woman, in order to induce him to marry her. That in less than three weeks she said she was just guying Guy with her good stories that she was not good a little bit and did not oare a—for him, end had just married him to spite her former divorced husband. Also infoimed him, he SBys, that she had “special male friends” and named as one of them a certain former Remington man who was very prominent; and that she had him on her list from 1881 to 1890. Would go to Montioello with him and pionic all day in the woods, by the remantio waters of the Tippecanoe. Another former resident is also named Also two young men, brothers, who must have been “birds” judging by their names. It is also stated she made a trip to Chicago with a Rensselaer lawyer, whoee name is not given. In 1898, he asserts she demanded $25 to pay to a female doctor in Fowler, for a oertain operation and whioh he refused. Whereupon he alleged she secured possession of her own bouse, and stayed there three nights, and that he had the house watched th 3 first night and a man went in and had not left at midnight, when the watoher’s time was out.

Says tbat-in December 1904 he employed detectives to look up defendant’s past record, in Reming ton, Ind., and Plainfield and Naperville, 111., and their report was ever sinoe the was 12 jears old. He esserts further that when she returned from California ia April 1,900 the wrote him to meet her at Naperville with a big roll of money, to buy furniture with That hehadtothow the money before she would believe he had it. That they went to Ch'cago and looked at lots of Yurnilure but bought none. Went back to Naperville and there, he says, she administered to him a big dose of prsenic, whioh made h ; m very sick. Thinks she wanted to poison him and take the roll of money.

Asserts that tfterw6rds she read diligently aoocunts of poisoning people with areenio and out out and preserved them. That he began to notice in himself symptoms of arsecioal poisoning and that on Jan. 27, 1903 he got a big dose that kept him in bed a week and nearly put him out of business. These frequent d )ees of amnio seem never to have agreed with his constitution but instead have so racked him that bis weight is reduced to 130 pounds, and he is scarcely able to do any work.

In contrast with this be mertious the robust physioal condition of tbe defendant, whom he ears was siokly and 'weighed only 100 pounds when he married her, and now weighs 155. end evident'y in bis view, every pound of it good fighting weight.

He asserts that her claim of poverty is not true, and mentions property of her’s amounting to SIB,OOO, and eajs it is uDinoumbered. V —— He denies her statement that he is a gambler, except that in 1807 he says they entered into a partnership for gambling business, that she furnished the money and he did the gambling, atd the got 10 per cent of bis winnings. That he thus won SI,OUO and she took her 10 per cent, and was mad when he insisted on quitting gambling.

He also declares that the letters she claims he wrote wßntirg to compromise his suits were mo-.tly writt-n by herself. A careful investigation would seem to indioate that a plan of improving the Kankakee river drainage is mainly dependent upon the situation at Momenoe and that the most feasible and economical method of draining the Kankakee wet lands is by directing improvements of the channel within the valley. It is thought that this can be done by deviating boldly from the old channel, thereby shortening the length and increasing the fall of the river.

Before presenting definite plans foi consideration the Survey will make a careful study of the flow, especially the flood discharge of the Kankakee river. The amount of lands benefited by the proposed drainage and the oommerical value of that benefit will be ascertained. It is believed that a careful topograplrc survey cf the Kankakee river bed and banka at Bnd above Momence and a study of the action of the waters during floods at that point, A line of preoise levels will be run over the Kankakee Lake Miohigan route and possibly Kankakee, Tippeoanoe route will then be run.