Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa
April 12, 1924
SAYS HIS WIFE IS CRUEL; ASKS FOR A DIVORCE
Suggesting proverbial rolling pins and frying pans, as martial,
as well as martial weapons, Charles Ebert is suing his wife, Mary
Ebert, for a divorce. He alleges she imperiled his life with
attacks, using kitchen utensils as weapons. He avers she has been
in the asylum at Mt. Pleasant, 1921, but declares that her cruel
and inhuman treatment antedated that period, and that she had
thus assaulted him before she was declared mentally unbalanced.
They have three children, Ralph, George, and Rose, aged 18, 16,
and 8, respectively.
[submitted by C.J.L., Feb. 2004]