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CHARGES THAT HER HUSBAND MARRIED BEE TO KE’SP FROM BEING DRAFT 21)Covington, Ind., April 1G.—Mrs. Sylvia Evitt was granted a divorce from Ora Evitt in the circuit court here yesterday on the grounds of desertion. The case was not contested. Mrs. Evitt testified, that she was married to Evitt on July IS, 1918, after ar * 7months’ acquaintance. She now suspects, she said, that Evitt had sinister motives for wanting to marry, that of escaping the draft. Within a month, however, he was drafted and soon after went A. W. 0. L., it is charged, being arrested by a sergeant from the army camp where lie was stationed.Ho refused to make any provisions for his wife, she said, and had given her only u pair of shoes. He is now living in Vigo county, it was said. She was allowed to resume her maid-lt;;11 name of Sylvia ITinote.The domestic troubles of Mrs. Minnie Marlev of Mellott and Michael♦Mar ley were aired in court Friday. She testified in her suit for divorce that he abandoned her in November, liiiiU, and that during their six years (if married life she had endured much ;;buse at his hands. In addition to beating her. she said he frequently vented his ill humor by smashing the household crockery. She was given a decree of divorce and allowed to resume her maiden name of Minnie Edwards.
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Attica Ledger Tribune
Attica, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 19, 1921
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