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TOO MUCH MOTHER-IN-LAWl DR. DEPUE SAYS WIFE’S MOTHER WAS CAUSE or THEIR MARI-TAL UNHAPPINESS.•PARKERSBinus, May 10.-A bull was llte,I at Circuit Court yesterday entitled Mrs. Vera Yen rd ley Depuo vs. Homer II. Depue. fur divorce. McCluor and McCluer nro nltorneys for the plaintiff. W.illo no bill haH been filed In I be case, |t |s understood that the allegations of .Mrs. Depuo against her husband are merely alleged Incompatibility of temper.Fi lends wire greatly surprised when Mrs. Depue skipped the bed and board of her husband on Tuesday evening, as they bad no intlmntlon that there were serious differences. The defendant. who Is a well known physician, spent Tuesday nt Ellxubeth. Wirt county, as a witness in a murder case. When be returned he found that she had removed the household furniture and bis happy home was gone.In the evening lie attempted to In tercepi her night to Cincinnati. Mrs. Depue Imd lonrded Hie evening train. Dr. Depue asked Policeman Deem In help him lake her from the train, but lie refused.It is wild that Dr. Depue tried lo get 1 possession ol their pet dog. which Mrs. Depue hid concealed, and lie did succeed in getting her suit case. Those who were at the station were attracted by the decisive demand for Its re-iinn. and bis gpsilciilnrlons. In endeavoring to induce her to return.This Incident was the talk of the city for two days, among those who 1 knew the young couple. Both wore ; well Hkcd by hosts and both regret the break.Ycslcrdny the climax came when the divorce proceedings were tiled. Friends hoped that the you tig hitHba.nl and bis pretty wife would be reunited, but Dr. I)epu» said yesterday that was mu of lito question.To a ropor.er be said:It Is case of too much mother inlaw. Mr. wife’s mother came to my home and o-dered me about ns If | were the cabman or the porter. I finally could stand it no longer and ordorcd her to leave. She remained about here nud turned my wife ngalnsl me.•Against her. be wild wlih feeling. I hnve nothing to say and will resent anything that any one else would say. W would hive been happy together hut for the Interference of her mother.”Friends say Ibnt Dr. Dopue’s Invila-•Ion to his rtother-in-lav to leave was given by pulling her trunk In the ho'l-way. She erldently knew what that men nt.The general-Impression Is that Dicre will be nothing develop |n Hie case which could possible roileci upon the character of either parly to the suit for divorce, and their friends regret exceedingly that dlfflcultlos in their domestic life hnve resulted.
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The Fairmont West Virginian

Fairmont, West Virginia, US

Fri, May 10, 1907

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