from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)—issue of Thursday, July 10, 1913—page 1, column 6:
WANTS DIVORCE
Less than two months marked love's sweet dream for William L. and Lutritia Morris. They were married May 6 and separated June 28. He now wants a divorce alleging cruel and inhuman treatment; that within ten days of their marriage, defendant threatened to leave plaintiff unless he sold his farm and moved to Indianapolis or some other city; that frequently she informed him that she would not tie herself up all winter and live in the house of this plaintiff with an old man like him, that if she did she would die before spring; that she falsely accused plaintiff of having a mean heart; that when she was not scolding and complaining she would sing some sad and doleful tune and once plaintiff asked her if she was singing because she was happy, and she informed him she was not but she was lonesome and was singing to dispel her troubles and she was sorry she ever married him; that she constantly demanded money of him; that she constantly urged him to go some place and when he told her that because of his age he was unable to go much in the day time and not at all at night, she would scold him and abuse him and say he was too mean to accompany her; that she would go alone in the night and visit picture shows and once nightly attended a show given by colored people and attended band concerts weekly; that once defendant called a neighbor in and told the neighbor that the old man was raising hell; that plaintiff is 74 years old and defendant 63; that he was acquainted with defendant for only six weeks prior to their marriage; that he had never visited defendant at her home but she had visited him at his home eight or ten times; that she knew he could not go about much and that he was taking her as his wife for company during his declining years; that each had been married twice before; that each has grown children; that on June 28, she left home saying she was going to Greencastle for a week when she would return; but that he received a letter from a Greencastle attorney informing him that his wife had consulted him and that she would not live with him and that the beset thing to do was to adjust property rights and that the plaintiff might so adjust matters by paying to defendant under a binding contract a certain sum per week or a fixed sum in bulk. Wherefore plaintiff wants a divorce. The defendant's name was Young and her maiden name was Hedge.