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11 stories matching unfaith
- The Park Superintendent's Divorce Turns Into a War of Affidavits
Edward O. Schwagerl's sensational charges against his wife and her uncle meet a counterattack: neighbors call her devoted, and she calls him jealous, unfaithful, and a theosophy crank.
- A Plea for Protection and Independence
After years of alleged abuse and instability, Lucy Stewart seeks a divorce and a restraining order against her husband.
- A Deadly Triangle in Mineral City
A rancher takes the life of his friend who had been relentlessly harassing his 17-year-old wife.
- A Legal Battle Over Abandonment and Affection
A Tacoma woman sues her husband's companion for $10,000, claiming the woman used 'wiles and arts' to alienate him from his family.
- The Double Life of 'John West'
A Seattle man is sued by a woman claiming to be his first wife, exposing a decade of assumed identities, hidden property, and mutual accusations of abandonment.
- The Kitchen War in Little Rock
A domestic squabble in a Seattle kitchen erupts into a violent, farcical showdown between a scorned husband, a smooth-talking preacher, and a woman who refuses to be anyone's possession.
- The Heiress, the Invalid, and the Absent Executor
A nineteen-year-old Snoqualmie woman fights a legal battle against a powerful executor who left her destitute and in debt despite a $100,000 family estate.
- The Preacher, the Deed, and the Burning House
A small-town minister's affair with a married parishioner ends in arson, a whitewash trial, and an effigy swinging from an electric light pole in the heart of Oakesdale.
- A City Fed Up: Seattle Demands an End to the Fire Department Follies
Six years after the Great Fire, an exasperated editor says the wrangling over the fire department has become a farce — and warns the mayor, council and commission to settle it or step aside.
- "My Idol Is Broken": A Governor Denounces a Senator to His Face
Miles C. Moore accuses John B. Allen of selling out an old friend to climb into the Senate, and prints the speech he says he delivered at Allen's headquarters.
- The Contract Wife Who Would Not Be Shaken Off
Florence Bucklin Byers followed a wealthy Chilean consul to California, then returned to Port Townsend vowing to enforce their handwritten marriage contract—or sue him for divorce.
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- A Scandal on the Yakima Frontier
A husband seeks legal separation after his wife abandons the family for a local sheep herder.