The Shelby Democrat
Thursday February 22, 1923
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DIVORCE GRANTED TODAY
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Mrs. Mable Basey was granted a divorce in the Shelby circuit
court today from Clyde Basey. She was also given the custody of their
daughter, three years old.Thursday February 22, 1923
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DIVORCE GRANTED TODAY
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Contributed by Barb Huff
The Shelby Democrat
Thursday September 7, 1911
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The superior court seems to be a popular place at present for the
filing of divorce suits. A new complaint was entered on the docket today by
Attorney M. O. Sullivan, acting for Mrs. Effie Basey, of Marion township.
She asks for a divorce from her husband, Sanford Basey, for one hundred
dollars alimony, for twenty-five dollars attorney fees and for the custody of
their children - Herman, aged five years, and China,
aged ten
months. She also asks that the court make further reasonable provisions for the
support of herself and the children.Thursday September 7, 1911
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In reciting the causes have led to the filing of the complaint, Mrs. Basey states that her husband on the eleventh of August threatened to kill her. She says she left home as soon as he made the threat and declared he would kill her if he found her there on his return. She says she took the children and walked with them to this city, a distance of four and a half miles, for fear her husband would return and carry his threat into execution. She says she still fears her husband and that it will be impossible for them ever to live together again. The couple were married January 11, 1902. Mrs. Basey says her husband has long been treating her cruelly and inhumanly, that he has failed to provide her with clothing and shoes, that he has frequently struck her with his fists, that he has falsely accused her of intimacy with other men and that he has spent his money on lewd women in this city. She avers that she had to take in washing to provide herself and the children with clothing and shoes. She says her husband is very high-tempered and unjustly jealous.
Contributed by Barb Huff
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