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BERTIE B. BROOKHART■lt;UmIS THE DEFENDANT INlt;LENGTHY DIVORCE SUIT.iBertie B. Brookhart, well known to many Bl.uffton people and whose memory leaves a tinge of sadness in the minds of many Bluffton merchants, has been again called before the public eye. Today a divorce suit, in which he is the defendant and in which some sensational charges are made, was filed in circuit court by his wife, Daisy Brookhart. The suit was brought by her attorneys, Daily, Simmons Dailey. The complaint covers several pages of closely written matter and the string of things of which she accuses him are sufficient to merit him a long term in the penitentiary if all are proven true.In the first place Mrs. Brookhartstates that they were married in February, 1899. They lived together as man and wife until January 8, 1902. At that time he deserted her and they have since lived apart. In the first allegation bkc charges him with cruel and inhuman treatment. He frequently called her vile and unspeakable names and made threats against her safety. 'He spoke of her slightingly and to a number of his acquaintances stated that she was the “old hen,” and referred to her as “easy” and not “up-to-date.” He spent his leisure time in gambling and frequently staid out as late as four o'clock in the morning and when she questioned him about it, replied with curBes.In order to obtain money to gamble Bertie did not stoop to anything so degrading as work but used his brains to a good advantage. He would slip into the house and carry off a sewingmachine or some other article of fur—: niture, not ignoring the lowly clothes- : wringer, and hie himself to the pawn-lp shop. He also handled a watoh be—ifllonging to his wife in the samener and soaked it three different* •times. On two occasions his fathejf7 i,redeemed it but the last time he did *fi.ttnot do so and now she is out a watch^J;^ She states that he beat all hisbiljf and kept the family continually dodg^® ing the sheriff. 'At one time he sold his goods ini^ this city while they were laboring der the depressing influence of a long; % over due mortgage aDd came very near1-Agetting in jail for so doing. His next? $escapade as laid down' in the com-^£-; plaint was the time when he gpt.ml#! trouble with the Fort Wayne policed Bertie represented to some yfttlihlef farmers that he was a detectnre antlj got some considerable money tiou£$j them. During the K. of P.uarninkttfg he came to this city and bad tbe. nested, to try to bribe Col. J. B. Plessinfife, then mayor. He offered the mayor s* v' nice little sum and was promptly senfc^f} out of town. • ' ■The last paragraph of the complaint*® alleges that he was guilty of adulte^ij? Mrs. Brookhart states that at on;^time she came home and found the2-'. ‘house littered with beer bottles .;and j' the blinds tacked down. He had been having a high old time and refused tc-j tell bis wife, anything about it. A.,| the fruits of their marriage they haye^ one son and Mrs. Brookhart asks fo^;§ the custody of this child and a deoreespf of divorce. -': Mkm
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Bluffton Banner
Bluffton, Indiana, US
Wed, Jan 21, 1903
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