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Show : HIS. WATTERSOH SAYS HUSBAND STRUCK E lit Ci'oss-Goinplainl Asks for Divorce Di-vorce on Ground of Cruelty. Sibyl Watterson does not talto kindly to the complaint In divorce recently filed against her by her husband, Charlos P. Vatter;on. The Wattersons were married mar-ried May 10, 100S. and after what appears ap-pears to have been a fast and furious honeymoon, Watterson filed an action for dlvorco against his bride, charging her with cruelty. The cruelty consisted, as tho complaint set out, or tho brldo batting the groom In tho fueo with her fists. Wodnesdny, Mrs. Patterson filed an answer an-swer and cross-complaint. In her an.-swer an.-swer sho denies all of tho material allegations alle-gations of her husband's complaint and in her cross-complaint asks for divorce on several grounds. Mrs. Watterson unmasks her batteries by charging her husband with failure to support, despite the fact that he receives a salary of ?27 a week. Cruelty Is then charged. Mrs. Watterson alleging that i her husband, on Juno 25. struck her In the face with his fist and pushed her against some chairs and a table. It Is also alleged thai Watterson has frequently frequent-ly called his wife vile and obscene nameb and used cruel and threatening language-to language-to her. Mrs. Watterson's prayer is that sho bo granted a decree of divorce, restored to her former name. Hastings, and that she be allowed $7"i for her attorney. |