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IU*i Croft Case—Court News:k,it*Alleging her husband ft* in the peni-,ht teuliary and that be attempted to kill 0j her with a iong knife, Mary Grutt has n- filed a petition for an absolute divorce, while Mattie L, McIntyre claims Wm.of FayhJ sold her husband enough beer at to make him frequently intoxicated from January 1 until March i, ot 1903, s* and therefore wants 11,300 damages.These petitions were Wed in thed-aa-lyclerk's office at the court house andwhile the hling was goiug on Judge L. V'. Jackson gianted a alt;#* trial to the deieadants in the case of T.auraM. Croft against the Rock island Railway company in which the plaintiffsecured a judgment of 515,000 a fewweeks ago. These matters with a few-e other orders, is the substauce of the et day’s happenings at the court house, er Seek* Divorce.After living happily together for six-teen years the wedded life of Mary Grott and John Grott was suddenly brought to an end by the latter attack, ing the former with a long knife on November 1. 1901, and inflicting a wound in the abdomen that nearly caused the plaintiff death, according to the allegations in Mrs. Grott’s petition filed today. The petition alleges that Grott was tried, convicted and sentenced to three years in the Nebraska state prison and is still confined there. The cutting affair is said to have occurred in the state of Nebraska, though the petition states the couple were married in this city in April, and that this is the plaintiff’s home, ti C. A. W. Kent is her attorney.!*•
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 25, 1904
Page 8
Full Page
Clipped by
Steven L.
USA 27 Jan 2019
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