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Show . is 7razoii Five JobIIis5 Marriege Enough, Jhnson Suas for a Divorce en tiis Ground of Cruelty. Alleges That His Wife Has Threatened Threat-ened His Life With Knives and Things. Prior to March 2G. 1004, John S. John-?on John-?on was a bachelor. Since that date. If his complaint, filed In the District court yesterday, lp to be relied upon, he has been a henpecked husband. His wife, he says, carries a razor and constantly reminds him that she may use It to make herself a widow. This gets on Mr. Johnson'9 nerves, and he feels that only a decree of divorce will enable him to retire with acalm certainty cer-tainty of awakening before the resurrection. resur-rection. Married in San Francisco. The couple were married at San Francisco Fran-cisco March 26, 100 1. The complaint alleges al-leges that less than one month thereafter there-after his wife, at their; home, 22 Covc court, called him vile names, used profane pro-fane language toward hjm and threatened to take his life, saying that she would make away with him. and j that on the 20th of July, at the same place, the defendant threatened plaintiff, plain-tiff, saying she would do him up with a butcher knife and use the razor on him. Would Blow Him Up. While out at Cottonwood on August 11 she told him she would blow him up and kill him. For more than a month past Mrs. Johnson Is alleged to have been in the possession of a razor with which she has threatened her husband, saying that she was carrying it to make away with him. Johnson says that he should be granted a divorce because his life Is really in danger. |