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b VS | UMIOU l/v 1 At VMUWVISoon after her roarriago, Mr».Roadoap savs, and while they werej living within sight of her parent's home, her husband refused to per mit her to visit her mother when the latter was very ill, saying if her mother died she was near enough to bear of it. The result was that she visited her mother without his consent, and when she turned home Roadcap was violently angry and abusive aod told her''he would be d— if he didn’t forceher to live with him.” She was afraid to live with a man who could show her such violence and cruelty as he practiced, and after a month of married life she took refuge in the home of her father, Erasmus Turner. Afrerward. while riding along the public road Bhe met her husband. He stopped her horse and forcibly detained her, threatening to take her off the horse and force her to go with him.The bill concludes with the alle-igation that the treatment she received at the hands of her husband had inspired in her such fear of and aversion to him that to be compelled to live with him would be to condemn her to a life of terror.In his answer Roadcap denied tils wife’8 charges, and in the crossbill, filed in November, 1906, he charged her with Infidelity.Abner Donovan, who was the nain witness for Roadcap in the *ecent murder trial, was a witness or Mr*. Roadcap in the divorce mit. She is now living at the home )f her father, near Manassas.
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Harrisonburg Daily News
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Sat, Feb 09, 1907
Page 3
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