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Show HUSBAND TAKES flEFIGEJIHElUl Andrew 6. Anderson Has to "Duck It" From His Loving Wife. HAS HAD ENOUGH OF MARRIED LIFE Makes Answer to Wife's Complaint Com-plaint and Asks for a Divorce. Andrew G. Anderson, a carpenter, made answer to Mrs. Emily O. Anderson's Ander-son's suit for divorce in tho Third district dis-trict court Friday in which he denies that ho is a habitual drunkard or that he has mistreated her, and sots up that she is iho drunkard and that, she has treated him cruellv. Mrs. Anderson said that Anderson brutal h ass.au 1 tod hor July 31 last, sinking Iut with a chair afi-.-r using his clenched fists a while, but Anderson Ander-son says this is a fabrication. Anderson Ander-son avers that Mrs. Anderson returned home maudliu drunk and after abusing him a while throw a glass lamp shade at. him and in order io protect himself from her lie got a chair. He dnnsn t specify what use he made of the chair, however. .Mrs. ADilersou has been guilty of habitual drunkenness for the last three years, Anderson claims. He says that "she habitually consorts with drinking men and women, remaining away from homo on her debauches for days at a time. When she docs come homo she usually assaults Vnn with some of the furniture, ho alleges. Takes Refuge in Cellar. By some of her repeated assaults she has forced him to take refuge in the cellar, he says. Sometimes he has had to sleep there. On one occasion, ho says, ho had to fasten the cellar doo.r from the iuside to protect himself from further attacks from his wife. Two years ago, while iutoxicnted. Mrs. Anderson, it is alleged, attacked him witli a knife, but hor daughter by a former marriage intervened and saved him from threatened injury. Mrs. Anderson also charged non-support and demanded alimony and the property, consisting of a lot and two nouses in lots Id and 17, block 2, Edtre-wood Edtre-wood addition, sub-division lot 9. block 4. plat A, Big Field survey, but Anderson Ander-son says he is physically unable to work at his trade of carpenter, having Bright 's disease and being almost constantly con-stantly under the care of. a physician, and he demands rhnt ho be given the divorce instead of Mrs,. Anderson, nud thai tho property, which is valued at $1000 above incumbrances, bo divided between them. He also asks for his costs. The couple were married about three years ago. |