Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — Erastus Peacock Served With Notice [ARTICLE]

Erastus Peacock Served With Notice

Deputy Sheriff Joe O’Connor “has served Erastus Peacock with the notice to show cause. If any there be, why he should not be held for indirect contempt of court because of failure to comply with an order of the court Issued about a year ago, directing him to pay to his wife for her support the sum of |7 a week, and the case Is set for hearing Friday afternoon of this week before Judge Hanley. Mr. Peacock is the railway mail clerk, who made an unsuccessful attempt to procure a divorce from his wife. He Is a head clerk in the railway service and receives an annual salary of 11500, and also a pension of |l6 a month, and he has not paid a cent toward the support of his wife since ordeied to do so by the court They had lived together for 39 years when he brought action for - divorce. The grounds that he alleged In his complaint were not substantiated and the good wife-was thoroughly vindicated by the court as she had been by the public before the trial of her husband brought her so annoyingly Into prominence.

It will be remembered that three years or more ago Peacock gave notice through the newspapers to merchants denying credit to his wife, and this action was considered most contemptible because people we e convinced that .she had never abused this privilege and, In fact, only resored to it when there was insufficient money In the home to meet the requirements of a meagrely managed home.

The public is entirely out of patience with Erastus Peacock and his dogged Indifference toward his good wife, and conditions are gradually assuming a point of hatred and animosity toward this man who could have been respected if he had shown even common decency in his treatment of his wife.