| Show ATti c ll r James Janios IL JI H SS eliS eks a n aa na aa a Divorce I INHERITED ll THIS J lf MA SS t H KOO MOTHER ALSO HOPI ESSLY INSANE as referee Deputy Dep ty C cark ark Lit Litt heard the in int fie t y rt tb tle t divorce case of Jamte Jam H homas nt May My A Thema Tho The pl waa represented by his h attorney y Tru Truman ru man Williams but Lne he defendant ut was in default She could not well t be at atthe atthe atthe the hearing for she SQ Is s under restraint in the Home for the Insane in Alle Allegheny Allegheny peny county Pennsylvania J Mr XI Thomas testified te that on July 3 1892 Im 19 when he was just over overl 21 years of age ae he was married at Norman Okla Okia and that within a few months after he heY saw say Y unmistakable un signs of insanity developing In his wife The courtship He be said was U a brief one in the dining room of the place where he lie boarded and he had no intimation that his bride was feebleminded S Mr Thomas recited numerous in fn instances instances stances of his mental irresponsibility irresponsibility He told how she spent his money mon as though it were chaff and gave awty her wedding ring and any anything anything thing else el e anyone would ask her for Once she helped him bun paper Paper the walls and persisted ted in putting the paste on the finished hed tIde side and at another time she crawled out f bed b dand and raj ral ra around the yard and hid while attired 00 in her night robe On another occasion c T n Mrs Thomas ThOma piled everything she c ld find findon findon on the baby in its cradle until the little e eone one nearly strangled Mr Thomas declared that he hI had bad al always always 1 ways WIlys treated h wife kindly kindY and endeavored to effect a cure for her malady at the hands bonds of skilled He H said that th t his hia n was hopelessly insane in ane and that his wife inherited the mental disease which now made her violently insane The plaintiffs attorneys attorney offered by b correspondence and andr otherwise th to cor corroborate corroborate corroborate the testimony of the only witness at the hearing Mr Thomas Thomasd said d he be was a railroad telegraph oper operator operator operator ator and that he had bad lived Jived in this city for a little more tItan than a year 3 ear He seeks to be B awarded the custody of his little littleboy littleboy boy 00 Referee Little LitHe will report the testimony testimony mony taken to the court without rec recommendation recommendation recommendation |
