Show I I BOOTH SUED FOR DIVORCE Novelist Charged With Treating Treating Treat Treat- ing ng His Wife With Great Cruelty CD By Associated Press Indianapolis s Oct 21 Mrs l Mrs Booth wife who of oC the novelist no and playwright today flied filed suit for divorce in In the tho superior court of this count county She Sho charges tho the defendant with cruelty and asks for the custody of their five five- year old child That she always has been a dutiful ful wife but bUl that tho the defendant has treated her with great cruelty cruelly Is the principal allegation in th the complaint which is brief and does not relate an any instances of oC the alleged allege 1 cruel treat treat- ment No Xo mention of oC demand for alimony ali all mony is made it is set out that Air Mr r. r and Mrs Irs have o not lived to together to- to seth gether r since last Jast Jul July Mr is In New York city having returned recently from a n trip to Europe Prior to last July Mr l and Mrs IrB maintained a n. house In a fashionable residence district of ot this city but they had spent a great deal of or time In Paris Capri and New York Mrs l ton before her marriage was Miss 1 Laurel L. Louisa Louis Fletcher daughter of ot Stoughton J. J Fletcher a millionaire banker and capitalist t of oC the city At his death he ho left eft her a large fortune She is a writer of oC verso verse and has contributed to magazines under the pen peu name namo of ot Louise Fletcher ton |