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Grew T!rt-d of m Husband.Judge Leathers, of the Superior Court,yesterday tried a divorce case in which there were some queer features. The plaintiff was John Mythen. a ruddy-faced Scotchman. who charged that Mary Mythen had abandoned him. The evidence disclosed the fact that Mrs. Mythen is at present engaged in the millinery business on Virginia avenue. She was not present and there was no defense. Mythen is about fifty years of age. At the time of his marriage he had a tailoring establishment on South Illinois street. His business prospered, his wife was saving, and they accumulated SOOt or 13,000. Mythen told the court that about ten years ago hla wife deliberately left him, taking nearly all his savings. She established a millinery store on Virginia avenue and has done well. She took withher their children, and Mythen admitted that she Is raising them properly and dresses them well. He said he had no complaint to make against the woman, except that she declined to live with him. They were living happily at the time she left, and she told him she was going because she was tired of living with him. She said she had no use for a husband and admitted she liked him as well as she could like any man. Judge Leathers granted the divorce.
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Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sun, Jun 18, 1899
Page 13
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