Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — Minister Faces Divorce Suit [ARTICLE]

Minister Faces Divorce Suit

The following dispatch from Crawfordsville appeared in yesterday’s Indianapolis Star: “The divorce case of Mrs. Mary L. B. Duncan against her busband, the Rev. D. B. Duncan, pastor of the first Presbyterian church, was called yesterday morning in the Montgomery circuit court. The morning and part of the afternoon was consumed by the attorneys’ opening statements. Dr. Robert Beer, of Valparaiso, a brbther of Mrs. Duncan, was thd only witness yesterday. His testimony showed that at a conference in this city with the Rev. Mr. Duncan, Judge Thomas and Judge Thomas Beer of Bucyrus, 0., that Dr. Duncan was charged with having caressed Nina Richardson, a co-re-spondent.