Adept at Marriage Game: Five Days, She's Gone, Wants Money

1910

Judge Scores Woman

Says She Has Been In Game Long Enough to Be Adept.

WASHINGTON, Ind., Feb. 17. — In granting a divorce to Ephraim Hogshead, a wealthy farmer, today upon a cross-complaint, Judge Houghton took occasion to score Mrs. Hogshead, who, before her marriage, moved in local social circles.

"It appears to me," said the judge, "that there has been an attempt on the part of the woman to hold up Hogshead. I doubt whether she could have recovered a penny against him. This has been her third appearance in my court in suits to disentangle matrimonial alliances and evidently she has played the game long enough to have become an adept."

Mrs. Hogshead's complaint asked for divorce and maintenance. The cross-complaint set forth sensational allegations. The Hogsheads lived together but five days when the wife drove to the city, tied the rig in a hitch-lot and telephoned her husband she would not return home.

—Indianapolis Star, Feb. 18, 1910, p. 5.