Shiawassee County MI Archives News....."A Cheap Wife"  November 27, 1896
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The Evening News, Benton Harbor, MI November 27, 1896
"A Cheap Wife" 
An Owosso Man Gets One For Five Dollars.

Owosso, Mich., Nov 26 -- A divorce case a little out of the ordinary was 
yesterday filed in the county clerk's office. It is that of Mrs. Mary E. 
Bullard against her husband, George W. Bullard, of Venice township, and the 
charge is extreme cruelty. 
The couple were married in May, 1894 and since that time Mrs. Bullard has 
filed three suits for divorce, but the first two were withdrawn by mutual 
consent.  In each of the three suits Mrs. Bullard retained a different lawyer. 

Bullard's meeting with his wife was remantice in the extreme. Mrs. Bullard No. 
1, who bore him 11 children, died early in 1894, and the care of his humerous 
offspring speedily drove him to distraction. He told his troubles to an Owosso 
friend, a second-hand dealer, and the latter, it is said, agreed to furnish 
the disparing Bullard a wife for the reasonable sum of $5.
The proposition was eagerly accepted, and Mrs. Mary E. Lee, a widow with a 
thirteen-year old daughter, was introduced to Bullard. She was worth the sum 
expended, the widower decided, and they were married with the week. Their life 
since has not been a happy one, as the divorce proceedings show. 

Both are high-tempered and George asserts that his wife frequently threw stove 
wood at him with speed and accuracy. He recently dodged a stick which was 
coming right at his head and the flying missle smashed the parlor window. Both 
Mr. and Mrs. Bullard are middle aged. 


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