Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1909 — Wife Alleges Cruelty in Suit for Divorce. [ARTICLE]

Wife Alleges Cruelty in Suit for Divorce.

Rosa Brooks, through her attorney G. A- Williams, has filed suit for divorce from her husband, Henry Brooks, and in the complaint she alleges cruel and inhuman treatment, says that the defendant cursed and abused her, accused her without grounds with having associated with other men and ordered her to leave bis home and return to her own parents. She alleges that about a week before the action was brought for divorce he beat and struck her and caused her to be so sick that she was confined to her bed for four days. She further alleges that he refused to buy fueTfor the home and that herself and daughter were not properly clothed, but that she had to sew for other people to make money for their subsistence. The complaint states that they were married in 1895, and that the defendant is now 30 years of age, which would have made him only 16 at the time of their marriage. She says that he is strong and able to work although possessed of no means. She asks the custody of their 11 year old child, and asks that the defendant be ordered to pay into the court for her support the sum of S2OO annually. Royal Fiour, the best. Home Grocery.