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HADLEY vs. HADIEY.Emma Badley Files Divorce SuitGeOscar Hadley Files Cross-Complaiot.Mrs. Emma Hadiey has filed suit for limited divorce from Oscar Hadley. The complaint alleges that they were married in March 1880 and separated in December 1908; that three children were born to them and that these ; children ' are now grown; that the defendant has been gulty of cruel and inhuman treatment in that he has told her that he did care for her; that hehas an ungovernable temper and wouldbecome angry at the uioat trivial thingswhich plaintiff did; that he nagged plaiutifi', found fault with her appearance and mauDer of doing her household work; that plaintiff believes it tobe a fact that he did so in order to force • ^her to bring action for an absolute divorce; that he has not provided for her support since December 1908 and that he had notified merchants in Danville and Indianapolis not to sell her bills on his accounf; that ho is worth S35,000; Wherefore she prays for a divorce from bb bed and board, for support, for attorneys’ fees and 820,000 alimonv.Oscar ITa^ley, the deleudant in the above action, on Tuesday filed a cross-complaint in which he alleges after reciting their marriage that the plaintiffabandoned him Oct, 21. 1908 and that since December 1908, they have not occupied the same house.The cross-complainant alleges that duftng the first fifteert years of their married life, their relations were rea-i sonably pleasant and that plaintiff was a faithful and dutiful wife, was affectionate and assisted him in their affairs. But for fourteen years, nlaintiff has been guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment in that she was extremely jealous and unreasonably suspicious of his every act; that she falsely accused him of infidelity; that when plaintiff was With him and he would speak to respectable women on the street, some of whom she would not know, she would call cross-complainant a dirty dog and other vile names and accuse him of improper relations with such women, that she in the presence of their children charged him with infidelity; that she would go to respectable women and ask them if he bad ever made advances to them and tell themthinia 1 mi tirtelt;er’rejth'WfIn8PIJaanSutb'foith(AttywlUDinignthat he would bear watcbiog; that he.has been apprised many times that plaintiff had asked men and boys if they had ever seen eroas-eomplainant with other women and would ask them18-bariffinuned(rolpo’halt;all.tutagu;(ateteaCoeX'enchth-m\lietyanprCcfreto:thinanto watch him and report any misconduct and that she would pay them well for such information, all to his shame and humiliatior.; that she went to his office in Indianapolis in bis absence and question the employees where he was and wheg toH he was out of the city, she would question their truthfulness by calling attention to his overcoat hanging up and w’ould claim he was concealed and would proceed to search for him; that on three occassious she came to the office of the treasurer of state and and accused a deputy of misleading cross conaplainantaud their al-son and charged the deputy with being of the cause of cross-complainant’s con- a: duct in language unfit to be put in the ui complaint; that for ten years these dt charges have Deen made against him he until they have become unbearable; eu that she called him a gambler and a lit drunkard; that until 1908 she had ac- fa: cess to his bank account and drew bi checks at her pleasnre and that she hs spent a large sum employing detectives ta to watch him and that it was so open da that his friends spoke to him about if; that she denied him the right to have his near relatives visit their home; that she refused to ccok for him or al-low servants to do so and that for two years he cooked his own breakfast orpurchased it; that during the campaignshe-circulated falee stories about him and once said she would go to Republican. headquarters and expose him and have him removed from the ticket and that she went to the Governor and charged their son and the cross-complainant with crimes and told the Governor that an investigation would prove«the truth of her charges; that she said she would ruin him politically and financially and she would not be satisfied until she had reduced him to poverty that for fourteen years his home life was miserable and intolerable on account of her wholly unwarran|:ed charges and that he bore with her until it becatue impossible to liye longer with her. Wherefore,, he asks for an absolute divorce.j . - V
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Danville Republican
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 18, 1909
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