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The Second Divorce

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
June
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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THE SECOND DIVORCE

WITHING THREE YEARS FOR ANN ARBOR BARBER.

MARRIED IN TEN DAYS

After His First Wife Received a Divorce.

His Second Wife Now Seeks a Divorce Urging Practically the Same Grounds as Did the First Wife a Year Ago.

Washtenaw is making a record in the matter of divorces. A bill of complaint was filed this morning by Mrs. Nelia Potter; through her solicitor, Arthur Brown, praying for a divorce from her husband, William H. Potter. It appears by the bill of complaint filed that the couple were married in this city on June 9, 1898, by Rev. J. Mills Gelston and lived together as man and wife until June 14, last. The bill sets up that the complainant has lived continuously in the state during past five years. The complaint alleges extreme cruelty against the husband. About the first of Oct. 1898, she alleges he left her while she was ill and confined to her bed and did not show up for a whole week and that she was without care excepting that of her aged mother. She also states that he used vile language to her and cast suspicion upon her character and that be never gave her any money with which to clothe herself although he was abundantly able to provide for her. She claims that he pommeled her, knocking her down and blacking her eye and driving her from the house. Once she alleges he got an axe and said he would kill her. She is now afraid to return to their home lest he do her some serious personal injury. For these reasons she prays the court to dissolve the bonds which tie and give her release from the aforesaid William H. Potter.

She also and at the same time filed a petition for alimony and expenses. Mrs Potter alleges that she is entirely without means and is in poor health and unable to earn anything. 

She asks that alimony be granted her therefore during the divorce proceedings and money to pay expenses.

She says her husband is a barber on N. Main st., that he earns from $15 to $18 a week and can easily provide the wherewithal to care for her wants.

It appears from the files in the county clerk's office that Wm. H. Potter has been married and divorced before. His former wife, to whom he was married on Sept. 27, 1896, by the Rev. W. T. Young, was a Mrs. Edna E. Holmes. She sued her husband for divorce alleging cruelty and non-support, and obtained a decree May 81, 1898. And on June 9, 1898, 10 days later he married his wife Nelia who this morning filed a bill for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty.