from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, September 26, 1907—page 1, column 6:
MARRIED TWO MONTHS
Jesse Hamrick's Third Marriage Soon Proves Failure
On Sunday, July 14, Miss Ruth Seerly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Seerly, of Decatur township, was married to Attorney Jesse D. Hamrick, of this city, says the Marion County Mail.
On last Tuesday, September 17, two months later, Mr. Hamrick, through his attorney, William W. Bosson, filed suit in Judge Harvey's court for a divorce from his two months' old bride.
Mr. Hamrick, who lives at 3840 North Meridian street, was 48 years old and his wife was 21 years old. He had been divorced twice from his first wife. After his first divorce he remarried his wife, but appealed to the courts the second time in 1900, securing the second divorce. This is his third attempt.
The lawyer says in his complaint that she was cruel and inhuman towards him, and that his bride at divers [sic] time called him vile and vicious names, used profane language toward him, told him she did not love him, assaulted and struck him, hoped he would die and threatened to kill him. Many of these things, he says, were in the presence and hearing of other persons.
She was down at the home of her parents Tuesday night, but was gone Wednesday when a Mail representative called her over the telephone. Mrs. Seerly said in answer to the question as to whether Mrs. Hamrick would contest the suit, “God only knows! The first we knew of it was when we saw it in the paper.”
The reporter remembers when the marriage occurred in July; he called up one of the Seerly telephones in the West Newton exchange to get the particulars of the marriage. He happened to get the wrong family, but before the woman could explain that it was the wrong number, some other woman excitedly spoke up from another number on the same line:
“I am Ruth Seerly's mother, and I want you to understand that she is all right and is a lady, and that her marriage to Mr. Hamrick [illegible] our approval, and [illegible]”
That was all said [illegible] had been able to explain [illegible] was questioning the social standing of anyone and that he was simply getting details of the marriage, and that it was his mistake in calling the other number.