Wife Rifles Her Husband's Pockets

Indiana, 1905

Discovers Compromising Letters and Files Suit for Divorce — The Courts

Mrs. Leonora D. Butler's testimony was heard this morning in her divorce case against William D. Butler and at the conclusion Judge Heaton took the matter under advisement.

She stated that she found in her husband's pockets two letters and two notes signed by a woman named Angel and while she could not remember just what was in them she knew enough to state that the terms of all the epistles were very endearing. She didn't know the woman until she had made an investigation.

Butler's love grew cold. He went to the fair at St. Louis last fall and upon his return told his wife that he did not have any regard for her and refused to perform the duties of a husband. He is employed by the Wabash Valley Traction company and she asks $1,500.

—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Aug. 17, 1905, p. 2.