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A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Missouri > St. Louis
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Submitted by: Gigimo
Article Title: St. Louis Globe Democrat
Article Date: August 6 1878
Article Description: LOUDERMAN'S Love. A Wealthy Young Man Marries A Belle of Society--She Applies For a Divorce.
Article Text:
Charlotte A. LOUDERMAN vs. Wm. E. LOUDERMAN. The plaintiff was one of the belles of society, known as Miss Lottie DICKSON. On the 26th of April, 1876, the parties were married in the presence of a brilliant throng at one of the fashionable churches. On the 13th of last April, not quite two years after the wedding, the young wife separated from her husband, and yesterday filed a petition for a divorce. She says that soon after the marriage he commenced to neglect and annoy her by coming home at late and irregular hours, at 11 to 12 o'clock, and sometimes 3 o'clock in the morning, and generally under the influence of tanglefoot. He continued this course pretty much all the time since. She avers that she used all her blandishments to win him back--entreating him with tears in her eyes to change his course, but all to no purpose. "No appeal to his pride or to the favorable effect in his reformation, and he soon became violent, profane and grossly abusive towards plaintiff!
when she remonstrated with him, threatening to leave her, threatening her with great bodily harm if she did not quietly allow him to do as he pleased, as to when he came home or in what condition he came."
She further says that about two weeks after the marriage they were at lunch at Freund's restaurant, when he commenced quarreling with the waiter about some trifling matter, and when quietly requested by her not to have any words with the waiter, especially as he was attracting the attention of all in the room, he became highly offended at her as well as at the waiter, left the table in a rage, without finishing his lunch, and left her sitting at the table, and to go home by herself.
Two weeks after the above scene he brought two strangers to her mother's house, 1516 Walnut street, and treated them to liquor, kept possession of the room long after tea-time, talking in a loud, boisterous manner, and when she remonstrated with him he flew into the greatest rage and used profane and insulting language to her in reference to her family.
>From June to September, 1876, they were with her parents at Lakeside, near Madison, Wis., and during all that time he led a most irregular life, carried a bottle of liquor in his pocket, associated with the lowest companions he could find, and pursued a course of debauchery and dissipation to her great mortification and distress.
The next fall and winter they boarded at 1924 Olive street, 2340 Pine, and 1516 Walnut, at all of which places he kept up the same course, and was at times most cruel and disagreeable. On one occasion she was taken very sick with neuralgia; the lady boarders waited on her until he came home, which, as usual, was very late, and, as usual, he was intoxicated; when the ladies left the room he broke out in a loud tone of voice and refused to do anything for her; told her to wait on herself, and finished by turning off the gas and forcing a pillow on her mouth, threatening, Othello-like, to smother her if she did not stop crying.
She then went to her mother's house, and they boarded there, but the demon of drink still pursued him. At his father's house, 1310 Chouteau avenue, he was no better. At times he carried a pistol and made all sorts of threats. In some of his tantrums he threatened to shoot himself, and pretended to stab himself, but was very careful to do himself no harm beyond tearing his shirt. She asks for a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name of DICKSON.
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