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NUMBER 2iUNCLE COPPED NEPHEW’S WIFEMARION FLATTER TELLS OF PECULIAR MARITAL TANGLE IN CIRCUIT COURT.4-Case Under Advisement—Bride Gave Away Wedding Ring—Paul Zickau is Granted Divorce.fitJudge Eichhorn Thursday heard the complaint of two husbands for divorce, granting a decree in one case and taking the othe under advisement.Paul Zickak * was the lucky appli-$cant, the court finding that he was entitled to a legal separation from Elizabeth Zickau. The suit of Marion Flatter, young Jackson, township farmer vs. Hazel Flatter, was not ruled upon.Mrs. Flatter was formerly Miss Hazel Jarnigan, of Delaware county. She was married to Flatter November 4,. 3911, and they lived together until March 26, 1913.Two hours after they had securedthe license, the plaintiff testified hisbride-to-be told him she wished he had%not gotten it. After they were married the plaintiff wished the same things many times. Theke is some doubt as lo the legal residence of !the plaintiff and the court reserved the ruling until he investigated this question.• Last February Flatter and his wife ! moved to a farm near Springfield, O.,I to make their home with his bachelor juncle. They remained there eight weeks and then returned to Blackford county. In that time the foxy old bachelor uncle succeeded in alein-ating what affection Flatter’s wife might have borne him, according to his testimony. He stated that his. wife and his uncle made frequent trips to town and'took long walks -back across the farm. When he asked the object of these walks they told him they were going back to look at the rye. The witness also related an incident one night when his wife and the uncle took a lantern to go out to doctor a sick chicken. The witnessany, levin »sort-t un-Hall-Lany, con-/ for 3 due 3 for tains .0,000pany sajd none 0f the chickens were sick. He told of another occurence when he; and, his wife had a fight in bed, and the uncle entered their room and theatened to kill Flatter. The witness said his wife always sided in with his uncle.After they returned hero last March* the uncle followed a short time later. He denied he had come to seo* Flatter’s wife but said the purpose of his visit was to give to Flatter some -jewelry which the wife had presented to the uncle. Among the articles was the wedding ring Flatter had given his bride.Zickau had a pugilistic wife. They were married January 26, 1909, and separated August 26, 1912. The witness complained that his wife had a violent temper and that she would fly into a rage over nothing and curse and abuse him. She refused to cook his meals or mend his clothes and on several occasions attempted to kill him. Once she tried to throw carbolic acid on him, another time she hurled a butcher*, 1 nife at him and a third time he awol-e during the night andlught 1f0llRd lier standin- beside his bed ker I armed with a pair of scissors. The plaintiff was prohibited from marryinga re-The )t re-legal, llegal Mrs. fcnd-the thorn * the Lick ) dnr-LIFEhis year-n the vo u Id when aying jsdaylfully e the right i red.for two years. ^TWO MORE GRAND JURY
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Hartford City Telegram
Hartford City, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 02, 1913
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