Has Become Insane

Has Become Insane

Mrs. Waggoner Who Married an Octogenarian.

And After a Week Sought for a Divorce for Alleged Brutal Treatment. - An Ann Arbor Woman in Toledo.

A Toledo dispatch Sunday reads: Toledo, O., May 6.- The last chapter was added to a particularly romantic marriage today, when an announcement was received from Ann Arbor that Mrs. M. O. Waggoner, of that city, had gone insane. Mrs. Waggoner is a prominent lady of that city. She fell in love with M. O. Waggoner, of Toledo, a man over 80 years of age, and they were married last fall. It was scarcely a week before the aged spouse became brutal, and his wife was driven from the house and a policeman was called in to settle the trouble. The wife sought refuge at a hotel and subsequentlv instituted a suit for divorce. Mrs. Waggoner asked the court to give her an allowance to $5,000 and an absolute divorce. Today's story tells that Mrs. Waggoner, suffering from the strain of the past eight months, has hopelessly broken down in mind, and that the divorce proceedings have been dismissed because of the plaintiff being unable to be present and try the case. Her friends in this city will make an attempt to have the court make an allowance for her support, as it is stated that her mind cannot be restored. Mrs. Waggoner is well known in Ann Arbor, and her marriage to a man over 40 years her senior created much comment at the time it occurred.

Mrs. Waggoner was Mrs. Victoria Brown, a mother-in-law of Prof. Levi D. Wines, of this city, and her marriage was a great surprise to her friends. A second Toledo dispatch attributes her insanity to the shock of the treatment she received during the week she spent with her aged husband.