Walter Crouch and the runaway wife in 1828
Courtesy of Tina Vickery <TVick65536@aol.com>

Daily Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Maine 
January 4, 1900

An Old-Time Notice.

A clipping taken from an old paper and sent to the Journal, shows what the 
husbands of 72 years ago used to do where the wives deserted them.  This is 
the notice has it appeared:

NOTICE.

"Frailty they name is woman."---Shakespear.

My case-hardened wife, Charlotte, has again fled from my just authority and 
protection without advising with me or consulting with me, on this doubtful 
and impolite step, nor is this the only offense of the kind that she has 
committed--for nine years past she has annually served me the same sort of 
trick, and always about the same time of year, which I cannot account for.  I 
had had Job like patience, and have forborne thus far to tell the world of 
the shame she has cast upon me.  Now let all who it may concern know, that 
from this day forth, I will pay no debts of her contraction.

Walter Crouch.

N. B.--- This in the tenth time she has ran away--nine time have I taken her 
in again, and if she ever takes me in again, I'll be ----- W. C.
Dated Dec. 8th, 1828.

Courtesy of
Tina Vickery
1999


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