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CRAZED BY LOVE.

Mrs. Albert Finn Applies for a Divorce

And While Temporarily Insane Leaves Her Bed With Suicidal Intent --- She May Recover.

A neglected wife sues her husband for divorce.

She worries over her trouble, and is taken seriously Ill with typhoid fever.

While temporarily insane she leaves her bed, and thinly clad walks until exhausted.

Before starting on her journey she writes a note, saying she intends to walk until death comes to her relief.

The principal actors in the above story are Bert Finn and his wife.  Both have been employed at the Hampden works and the husband is still at work there.

The story is a particularly sad one and neither party is entirely exempt from blame.  Some two years Bert Finn came here from Springfied, Mass., and went to work in the Hampden factory.  Sometime before coming to this city he had married Miss Ardell McArthur.  She did not accompany him, and for a time he enjoyed himself according to his own ideas of pleasure.

Later his wife arrived and they have until recently been living together.  There was much trouble among the Finns and a separation was the result.  Albert decided to apply for a divorce, but learning that his wife had the same intentions, he allowed her to file the petition.

It was drawn by Attorney Thomas F. Turner and charged him with gross neglect of duty and abandonment.  She alleged that she was obliged to depend entirely upon her own exertions for support.  She claimed that several times the trouble between them was so serious that he struck her

It is claimed that the rackets were all caused by the fact that Finn was jealous of his wife because she acted rather free toward certain young gentlemen employed at the works.  Mrs. Finn is rather a pretty little lady and was much admired.

At the time she signed the petition for divorce she was quite ill with typhoid fever.  Saturday she was taken worse.  She has been rooming at the residence of J. O. Smith, 212 West Tuscarawas street, and taking her meals at the house of Prof. C. F. Stokey, 107 West Ninth street.

Monday about noon Mrs. Finn was taken worse, and while temporarily insane, wrote a note to Miss Anna Tritch, a friend, saying the world was against her, and that she intended to walk until exhausted.  She also informed her friend that it would be useless to look for her, as she did not intend to go in a direction where she would be easily discovered.

After writing this note Mrs. Finn left the house.  Prof. Stokey discovered her absence when he came to bring her dinner.  The case was reported to the police.  The unfortunate woman was afterwards found on the Massillon road, about three miles from Canton, by two strangers.  They saw her when quite a distance away.  She appeared to be very weak, and before they got to her, fell beside the road.  She was carried into the house, and the matter reported in Canton.  Mrs. Finn was brought here Saturday night, and was very low all day yesterday.  This morning she is better and hopes for her recovery are entertained.  Mr. Finn has not been to see her since she was brought home.

​TO THE PUBLIC

An article in a paper published yesterday, is my apology for this card.  It is true as stated, that we were married in Thomsonville, Conn., in August 1888, but for reasons that need not now be given, we were married secretly.  This was our first mistake.  We mutually agreed to keep our marriage a secret for one year, this was a worse mistake, but it will explain why I passed myself off "as a single man."  I make no charge against my wife.  We were both young.  Do not judge us harshly.  There has been nothing in my conduct as "brutal" as that article against me.

​ALBERT FINN
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1.
​Here are the parts of this article that are about Papa Charles:
At the time she signed the petition for divorce she was quite ill with typhoid fever.  Saturday she was taken worse.  She has been rooming at the residence of J. O. Smith, 212 West Tuscarawas street, and taking her meals at the house of Prof. C. F. Stokey, 107 West Ninth street.
and
Monday about noon Mrs. Finn was taken worse, and while temporarily insane, wrote a note to Miss Anna Tritch, a friend, saying the world was against her, and that she intended to walk until exhausted.  She also informed her friend that it would be useless to look for her, as she did not intend to go in a direction where she would be easily discovered.

After writing this note Mrs. Finn left the house.  Prof. Stokey discovered her absence when he came to bring her dinner.  The case was reported to the police.

2.
I thought about putting in a map showing the route from 212 West Tuscarawas Street, where Mrs. Finn was staying, to 107 West Ninth Street, where she was eating with the Stokeys, but it turned out not to be so simple.  West Tuscarawas Street is a main street in Canton, and can be thought of as First Street.  Above it are 2nd, 3rd, 4th and so on Streets NW, and below it are 2nd, 3rd, and 4th and so on Streets SW.  So 107 West Ninth Street is either 107 West Ninth Street NW or 107 West Ninth Street SW, with 212 West Tuscarawas Street about halfway between them, and nothing to tell me whether the Stokeys lived at NW or SW.  Additionally, the Stokeys later lived at 907 West Ninth Street, so it seems possible to me that the Stokeys were already there and the newspaper got the address wrong.  907 would be further away from 212 West Tuscarawas Street than 107, but I just don't know.  So I didn't do a map.

3.
The article says that Mrs. Finn was taking her meals at the Stokey house, which indicates that she ate them there, on West Ninth Street, but on the day when she walked off, Papa Charles was bringing lunch - or maybe dinner at noon - to her at West Tuscarawas Street.  I figure this was because she was sick.

4.
I assume that Mama Margaret would have done all the cooking, and I wonder how much Mrs. Finn was charged for her meals, and if there was anybody else getting their meals at the Stokey house.  In Mama Margaret's letters that we have from later years, there's a fair amount of talk about food.  I always assumed she just liked talking about food, but now I'm wondering if she was thinking back to the days in Canton when it was her responsibility to provide food for not just her family but for others as well.  Also, who made the arrangement about Mrs. Finn coming to the Stokeys for meals?

I've added this to Mama Margaret's related document because she cooked the food.  It seems only fair.

5.
The day when Mrs. Finn walked off was a Monday.  Surely Papa Charles was working on that day, and yet he had time to deliver Mrs. Finn's meal to her.  I assume that the Canton schools would have started up by mid-September.  So it sounds as though the school where Papa Charles worked was near to the Stokey house, but where was the school?  And did Papa Charles always come home for lunch?

​6.
Some two years Bert Finn came here from Springfied, Mass., and went to work in the Hampden factory.
This must be the Dueben-Hampden Watch Company, where Fred later worked for several years.  But at the time of this article Fred was just 11 years old, still in school.

7.
The newspaper page where this article appeared was interesting to look at.  There was an article about a 76-year-old man, hard of hearing, who was killed by a train as he crossed the tracks: "As he stepped on the track the top beam of the cow catcher struck him with terrific force."  And a 30-year-old man died suddenly in a saloon, not in a fight, but apparently of heart trouble.  Also there was an ad for various fabrics including challie, which interested me because 20 years later Alma bought some challie in England:
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