Colston - Second Divorce

COLSTON, MCADAM, WICKS

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 6/8/2004 at 19:08:52

November 10, 1915 – Mt. Pleasant Weekly News Journal

MRS. COLSTON SEEKS DIVORCE BECAUSE HUSBAND IS A CONVICT

Alice Colston and Richard Colston were Divorced in 1914 but Subsequently Remarried and Lived Together Until May 1915

For the second time in the lives of the parties concerned a divorce suit was filed in the district Thursday morning. It was that of Mrs. Alice Colston versus Richard Colston. The couple was first married in Mt. Pleasant on September 12, 1907, and in May 1914 a decree of divorce was granted to Mrs. Colston on the grounds of habitual drunkenness. The couple patched up their differences and were again married on March 21, 195. On May 12, 1915, the defendant, a well known colored resident of this city, was found guilty of larceny and sent to the penitentiary at Fort Madison.

In the petition filed today, the plaintiff, who is represented by County Attorney T.M. McAdam, asks for a decree of divorce upon the grounds the defendant is a convict. She also says that at the time of her marriage, she was the owner in her own right of certain real estate and asks that the title in such property be quested in her as against the defendant. She asks for absolute decree and restoration to her maiden name of Alice Wicks.