DIVORCED FOR LYING

Temuka Leader, Issue 2404, 27 September 1892, Page 3

DIVORCED FOR LYING

The American law gives divorce on very slight and sometimes on very curious grounds. One of the oddest cases which has yet come under our notice was heard in Nebraska the other day, when a man named William Truesdale was granted an absolute divorce from his wife on the ground that she was "an incorrigible gossip, whose tale-telling propensities and penchant for gossiping rendered life with her unbearable," The unfortunate husband solemnly averred that during the three years he had lived with his wife she had tola 10,000 lies. "She cannot tell the truth," he declares in his petition, "and whilo it is in the nature of a disease, I believe it incurable. Hence I ask relief in a divorce." He then goes qn to give a few samples of hi:* wife's inventive powers. She told him that his mother had just been found dead in bed, murdered by unknown persons ; that his nearest friend and best neighbour had attempted to assault her ; that she had received a lotto? from a lawyer in her old home telling her she had inherited a fortune and to send him 50dol at once—she spent the money for a new dress s that their little son had fallen wio the well and broken his leg—he was asleep in his crib ; that their minister had eloped with a servant girl, leaving his wife and children destitute —which story when repeated by him was the moaita ox costing him 700dol. and o, deal of trouble to keep from beiny convicted of criminal libel. All this j*> very distressing, but we doubt -whether a divorce was* the proper j'fiinedy. Tho kuly evidently had a most jirolilk which nufoHunntv-Y ->'.-•:n fl'-■.'.-(.. 1 iiiiu wv.ing oh.'tiiiiijlK. i'lvpuHy (Kim.- cd il hnvf l;r.uiy,l)». iiie h'.isiiw'Hl both \;\\w- Mini fortune, -lit* Miuuld havi.! !.;•■■■••■•.e in for writing ::lioit stoi/Uw < ;t ' mining prospectues or paragraphs for society journals. In all of those capacities the lady's assistance ought to have been invaluable. ■■■— Exchange.