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ong)meird.•by 1 atoolant lay me i isrn-I athe•»nbyImonth und right off the bat denies that he became intimate with a young ^ woman of thla county the same year he was married to the defendant. He ^ disputes the charge made by iMrs. (Ragsdale that; she made a hand la the clearings and corn fields, but does admit that she did some sewing for ■ friends while jiving at Frdnch Lick./He claims that Mrs. Ragsdale and • the children never went to bed hungry so far as he knew, and if-theydid it was not; his fault as provision had been made for such, wants. In her complaint !Mrfi. Ragsdale charges that the minister had undue relationskwith a young -woman at Shoals, but the mlnlBter says that this woman isa cousin and bis conversations andthe like with her were as of one kinsman with another. lt;He denies In total the charge that he objected to Mrs.Ragsdale becoming a member of the Ladia Circle of the Grand Army of the Republic, and he also saya that at no time of their married life did he ever strike; kick or in any'wayabuse her; ! Mention is made in Mrs.Ragsdale's complaint to a woman in Arizona to whom the minister referred to as his “Little Arizona Belle. The Rev. Mr. Ragsdale says that this “woman is but a thirteen-year-old child and the photograph In-question was made one day while hewas a visitor at the home of her parents In order to please the fancy of the child. The minister says that he wbb never afflicted with a venerlal disease of any type, nor gave any such disease to defendant, tout''he avers v she was afflicted with a venerlal disease and waa treated for same in a hospital at very’great expense to the plaintiff. The- minister denies .emphatically that -he ever struck: ^hei wife in the aide, in such a way as to. cause a surgical operation. ‘The filing; of the original and counter charges! toy j the Ragsdales have caused considerable'talk among the acquaintances or the couple and It Is probable that; Judge Ogdon w|H have to hang out the “S. R. 0. sign when the case comes up for blaring.(Mrs. J. R. Stewart of Caaelborg
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The Washington Herald
Washington, Indiana, US
Thu, May 18, 1916
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