His Wife Is A Drunkard

HIS WIFE IS A DRUNKARD

So William Payne, of Milan, Says on Oath.

AND HE WANTS A DIVORCE

Found Pails of Beer in the House which He Threw Away.

William Payne, of Milan, wants a divorce from his wife, Minnie Payne, after 21 years of married life. He alleges as the cause for divorce that, about a year after the marriage, his wife commenced the excessive use of intoxicating liquors and became an habitual drunkard, and has been constantly on sprees. He states that while living at Windsor, Ont., "he has on many occasions found pails of beer in his house which the defendant had procured to drink, and which he threw away."

He further says that "on the sixth day of August, 1896, the defendant was convicted in the county court, Judge's Criminal Court in and for the County of Essex, Province of Ontario, of the crime of abduction, and sentenced to be imprisoned for four years in the Provincial Penitentiary at Kingston, where the defendant is now imprisoned under such sentence; that the said charge of abduction consisted of enticing a young girl into a house of ill fame in Windsor."