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Ii‘Marry A gain? Not On Y our Lifer StatesMrs. W. W. Culp When Granted DivorceWife Of Erring Ex-pastorM5S*Obtains Release FromGay Lothariod-n-n-n-le?dx-n■iintn-if!Mrs. Wilson W. Culp, wife of the former Spring Valley minister and four times deserted by her pulpittess husband, gave him his freedom at South Bend, Ind., Thursday. She divorced him oti the grounds of desertion, cruelty and non-support of their ten children, of which the youngest Is two and the oldest eigh teen.Mrs. Culp was granted the divorce by Superior Judge Lenn J. Oare, who refused to allow alimony and ordered that she must not remarry for two years. The decree was entirely satisfactory to the wife of the unfrockedminister as she says matrimony has become distasteful.Marry again? Not on your lifeThis wrh how she expressed her feelings. On the witness stand she was asked by Judge Oare if she would be willing to again wed her erring husband should he return from hts latestspree with his sister-in-law, | shouldsay uot, Mrs. Culp shouted and her words contained all the sarcasm and bitterness resulting from years of marital strife and disappointments in which she has been subjected to abject suffering, humiliation and extreme povorty.Mrs. Culp repeated in court how twenty years ago when she was young and pretty she had been a happy bride in a country church parsonage near Nappanee, Ind. Now agehas taken its toll. All the youthful-I ness in gone, the result of years of; married life and mothering of ten' children.?dLir■ersinPROSECUTIONANSWERes!n*ixreMRS LANSDOWNEFofey Will Be Called To Testify In Mitchell Case As Toit-:r,dOf19)chIKCharges Made by Widow of ShenandoahftOfficer.5 Her husband first came into the limelight, about a year ago as pastor of a jftuall church in Spring Valley. Ho fell in love with his choir singer and unexpectedly * loped with the girl in an automobile presented to him by his congregation to make calls upon his flock and guide them spiritually.He weis re-captured in Michigan audsent to the Dayton Workhouse from where he obtained his freedom through a technical error in the committment ; papers. The girl decided to turn over a new leaf and went away to school to become a missionary and live inseclusion.I The preacher and his family affected a reconciliation, marital troubles were temporarily Ironed out and the family moved to South fiend, Ind., to begin life anew and settled down to housekeeping with installment-pjan furniture. The minister obtained employment and for a while all was quiet along the Potomac.Then the erring Culp again strayed from the path of marital fidelity, thisi time eloping with h*s sisterWn-law, Mrs. Cleo Culp. His sister-in-law d«Csorted her bablt;* and husband and the pair ran away to Chicago. Two weeks; later they relumed ashamed and were forgiven.SteLinffreplt;mescatcPoiiwatinj2rLfeaiandiinjred ifeelof \Na sea 1 brok t h roi failewheino tII.25is-tie la st .id toWashington, Nov. 13.—Prosecution leaders in the Mitchell court-martial today took up the question of answering the charges of Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne, widow of the Shenandoah Commander, who accused Captain Paul Foley,judge advocate of the naval court investigating the dirigible disaster with attempting to Influence her testimony.Colonel Sherman Moreland, the proslater whether to call Foley and Mrs. George W. Steele, wife oi the laike-hurst, N. J., air station commander, who Mrs. Lansdowne, said, delivered a m morandum from Foley. The memorandum suggested Mrs. Lansdowne ' testify her husband was willing to j take his ship, the Shenandoah, “anywhere, anytime, under any weath* r I conditions.Foley told the United Press today he had asked to appear before theftIt was not long until the mutual affection between Culp and a sis ter-in law again led them V* take flight. Culp had saved a little money for railroad, era . fare and the two are supposed to have and gone to Mexico. They have not been heard from since.Mrs. Culp and her family of ten are now on the verge of poverty. Five of the children are at home and the others are being cared for by friends.Most of the household goods has been lost because of failure to keep up payments.Mrs. Culp Iibr had to give tip her house and ts living in a little tenant house on a dairy farm near Mishawaka. Ind., where she Is doing work for rent and receiving aid from welfare organization.“Marry again? Not on your life,” that’s how she foeln about it.center s'divitItmullentHthe w or'TheoralingTldayshet hrc Hum
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 13, 1925
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