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Outgrowth of the Sensational Elope ment of D. M. Flora and Mrs. Rebekah Clingenveel. Mrs. Flora Has Paid Twenty-five Hundred Dollars of Her Husband’s Debts. Two suits for divorce have grown out of the sensational elopement of John M. Flora, a prominent Dunkard politician and former trustee of Flora township, in Carroll county, and Mrs. Rebecca Clingenpeel, of Flora, on Sep tember 28, 1803. It will be recalled that Flora and his paramour were driven to Kokomec, where they took a train for the far northwest and have since been living together in British Columbia. Mrs. Flora has filed suit for divorce in the Carrell circuit court at Delphi. Her complaint, which is very tame, considering the provocation, sets up that She was married to Flora in Floyd county, Iowa, September 5, 1875, and that he abandoned her September 28, 1903, and has since been living in adul tery in Canada and the northwestern part of the United States. She states that they have four children living, two of when are not of age and of whom she wishes the custody. She says Flora left $2,560 in debts, which she has paid. Mrs. Flora did not make oath to her complaint, but “affirmed” that it was true, as is customary with the Dunk ards. It is the first divorce suit in which Dunkards have figured in this part of the state. It would seem that there is an un derstanding between Fiora and the wife he has abandoned that she is to free herself from him in order that he may marry Mrs. Clingenpeel. Mrs. Clingenpeel has secured the necessary six months’ residence in the mecca for divorce seekers, South Dakota, and in the circuit court at Fierre has brought suit for divorce from William Clingenpeel. She says that they were married May 22, 1882, in Carroll county, and she bases her complaint on charges of vile language and abusive treatment of her. She says his abuse began in 1887 and in 1892 he theratened her bodily harm and also said he would commit suicide. She says they have five children and she wants the custody of the two mi nor children. William Clingenpeel has employed C. R. Pollard, of Delphi, to represent him, and while he wants her to have the divorce, still he will fight for the children, who are now eleven, and thirteen years old, and who keep house for him at his home in Flore. _ Mrs. Clingenpeel abandoned her fam ily and with Flora went to the north west territory, where it is said they are prospering. Fiora took with him a nice little bunch of money, but left all his real estate to his wife and alone, with it the ‘$2,500. debts of which she speaks. “It is a rare thing for a member of the. Dunkard. church to bring a divorce proceeding, but. business ‘reasons make this necessary.
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Logansport Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 07, 1905
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