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E LINCOLN DAILY FTARred%jHEHerBe-wasrs.IOC*skallchthisfed»andTHREE DIVORCES GRANTED IN THE DISTRICT COURTW.iU am McKnight, Mary A. Anderson j | and Percy Zimmerman WereGranted Their Decrees.The divorce mill in the district court ground merrily this morning! for an hour, and three unhappy couple* were given separation. William McKnightwas first. He told of the extremecruelty practiced toward him by his wife, Cora R. McKnight, whom he wooed and wedded in Council Bluffs in 1902. They wentrto live west of lincoln/but he said he soon found that there was. to say the least, a decided incompatibility in their temperaments. He cited as proof of this that on ona oc casion when he was doing some farm work which required the use of four heavy horses, his wife desired to go to the city. So he stopped his work and hitched a pony to the buggy for her accommodation. But Mrs. McKnight evidently had pride, according to her husband's testimony, and did not wish to drive to town with the small pony. Her husband declared that she showed her spirit by horsewhipping him with such vim that the buggy whip which she used was broken into three pieces, Mrs, Orrei Flader and Frank Ford corroborated the testimony of Mr. McKnight regarding the horsewhipping epfsode. The plaintiff also declared that she had threatened his life and that one morning ho woke up and found an open knife under his pillowro-i ( .*4 I t I* Vk 1 «« 1 Jl » K jHk. ± M A S* mm AaboutmamHe)Uart
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Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Wed, Jun 27, 1906
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