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WALKEDFour Hundred Miles Over PrairiesDid This Deserted Woman Will) Her Little Children, Bui a Letter To Dear Joe Spoiled If All*nd Judge K#1Im KeluMd Tit Dinorce Mn Anna VaJiFrtwi Hir Huiband Charley —flrrfert Alimony Paid.Jadjja Neilan 'i'iiE6day morning refused to grant a divorce to Anna Vail from her husband Charlon. He ordeicc)I lie husband to pay JHJ alimony and reserved bis decision regarding tlie deposition 0/ iho two children who are now in poiiewioit of Uio wuinin pending further Investigation of her character.Tlio petilion which was dtod in January,'ill, ctteB that Iho maiden name of the plaintiff wis Anna Miller and thai Bbo was married lo Charley Vail, a bob ot Llnu3 Vail, in CineJnnali la jss» Two boys were bom as a rcsult of the union.When Mrs. Vail was calicd on the si and she testified to a series of marital troubles that tow women 8re tvei called upon logo through with. Bor severs years they llyeil on the Vail farm east of the city With her husband's father. The husband never did wjsU and frequently lost hIs temper ami quarreled with her, At them times ho would amuse hlmrclf by pinching her unlit her arms wore black and blue.PLAY 111) GYPSY.Finally tho husband decided that ho could do better in a now country aud with s wagon aud a team ol horses started south, taking bin wife anil two boys with him. They wont through Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama stopping a while in each al3lc, but tho lnsstumi nivcrdfd any thing and itwas ahand to month oxislenca. Then ho concluded that the w«6t was the place aud ifter mouths ol travel the old wagon with its occupants stopped near Phillpsbnrg, Kan., so mil$s wt-sl of Kansas City. Here Charley Vail decided that his wife and little boys wero an in-tiinbraneo and tmldculy celling hfs horse and wagon, descrled if mm. tie jokingly told htr that lie mijhl go fa fJIncSuuatl aolt;l askad lior if 'cho would coma to him when ho got work. She did not hellovc lie would go j but he diil and rioxn that day to this hei has oct* r sp akc n to he r nor wrl 11 pa her, a line.ill-lit I.OKt; WALK.I Korsoveral weeks she was fiuppjrleJ by neighbors but unable lo do anything for heraelf and realizing that sho had beendoscrted, she started oat to walk home, it was In Iho month of .lanuary and pari of Iho ttmo snow covered the ground, but sho faced Iho perils anil carrying the younger boy part of the time took up her weary march f»sl-wanl. For ICO mil os sho walked ovor western roads anil pralrios alone, bog. glngfoodor working for it along Hie road unit) she finally reached gpriag-ilcld.Mo., where *bo secured a position in a restaurant. Hero she worked for merely enough lo sustain lito in hcrtolf and children, until at last eho scirured help from her mother and catno back to lior old home in Hamilton. Sinco then sho ha* l*on living on Fourth street taking in boarders and doing washing for a living, absolutely unaided ami disregarded by her husband.HJS fJIDK OF IT,This was the case ae It presented lo the court by (ho woman ami Judge Ncitan seemed to fool deop sympathy for lior, but at llio list minute iho attorney for Charles Vail exploded a bomb by producing an old let;or. H TVM written years ago by Mr*. Vail to amm she addrnssed as Dear Joe” aud was ill led with Id criminal ini' statements, 'Jhis letter, iho liust bdi! said, proui pted him to tl o; c r t h Is w i fe.Mrs. Vail admitted writing the letter, hot m?(1 it war addrcisc(I to a flufjitous pefs-umgo and had been written ai il a', lowud to fall fn!o her husband's hamla merc-ly as n watn'ng L» him as lo what sho might da II hj dlilu't Iron-, her belter. There was no denial on the pai L of the husband nt tho deioilioii nor of the long walk tlie wild look.Things JookoJ bright for Uio womsn uniil Ihalc-icr wnsreed, but afterward the court tcooi became gloomy anil appeals were nil in vain. Her cx pi an alb n of tho letter and “dear .l«s” didn't go ami Ihc cazc was brutrrlit. to an abrupt cndlmr, the judge bo ding lliat neither of them was entitled to a divorce a ad that ho doubted if cither was a proper person to keep u,s children,Local Fortica: 1 Official Jta-ftlur fuy-nlBbcs tho following ilnia for llio inoulh of lUccmber cnvorltiji a period of '7 yours, which b»yo been complied from the records of iho Jeer I weal her bureau: TotnporaUiic—iioiin or normal Innperalnre, ;’i degree?.The warmest inonfh war that of ifiS), with an sveiajo of is ilegrecs,Tho coldest moath was that nt \trr-, with an average of IS degreee,Tlie highest icinperaluro wee 72 degrees on Decora barlit, IMS.The loweat lempcratiire w,u S degress•n December 22, Iffii V/ccipilatlon jraiu and melted enow)— Average for iho monlli 215 inclios.A ye rago no in her of days vvlili ,m 0f an Inch or more, 12.Tim groatcat monthly precipitation was 7.11 inches In 16-711,The least monthly precipitation was 0.5$ Inches in liTli The pica teal nmou nt or precipitation, recorded in any 21 consecutive hour* wa»3.lu Inches on nm’iiiK'r I Tho Stalest amount of r now fall recorded In any 21 eomeoalivii hours (rea-ont extended lo winter of only)was , indite on December J-, |s-;»i, Glonila and weather—Average Mimli’r lt;,[ days, 6; panly chmly days, II j cloudy ilaj «, II Win lI —Tim j rev a'ling wlcds lif-vcbfiu from the sonlliwel-T bo hl;lKeL velocity of I he wind was ■J) miU\sfrom if.} nortInvent u.i Dcnqfi -bar t, ISSS.
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Butler County Democrat
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 01, 1898
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Robert V.
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