Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — A NEW DIVORCE CASE [ARTICLE]

A NEW DIVORCE CASE

Mrs. Mina Yount, a comparatively new comer in Rensselaer, has begun a suit fer a divorce from her husband, Roy Yount, now said to be in Kokomo, Howard county, where most bad husbands pull up sooner or later. A non-resident firm of attorneys file the complaint, and evidently they are accustomed to practice in places where divorce is a popular social funetiou, like Kokomo for instance, and they in dulge in quite a flowery compla'nt and divide it into two paragraphs, both of them elegant, but not entirely consistent, one with the other. The parties are declared to have been duly and le ally married on June 17, 1900, and to have separated od July Ist 1906, and never to have lived together since. The first paragraph alleges that the defendant has totally failed to provide for his wife’s support for the past two years, and that he is lazy, improvident and wi s l not work. The second paragraph however asserts that he is working and earning 915 a week, and the attorneys want some of that abounding wealth, to pay the expenses of the case with — especially but presumably their fees. It is also asserted that he “has totally failed to assume the grave responsibilities of life,” whatever they zay be. Cruel and inhuman treatment is also charged, in that the defendant would frequently absent himself from his wife, without cause or explanation, and for considerable periods of time. Furthermore that he was in the habit of applying vile and abusive epithets to the plaintiff. He also compelled her to work at her profession of a tiained nurse when she was herself in poor health and under the care of physicians. The defendant was in Rensselaer for a considerable period last year and was not so backward in assuming tbe grave r sponsibilities of life but that he filled the position of chief pilot on board the Thompson & Smith’s big steam road roller for some time.