Raleigh, Sept. 18—In Wake county Superior Court today Mrs. Hazel Blalock of McCullers instituted suit for divorce and alimony against her husband, Dr. Nathan M. Blalock, well-known physician of the county, alleging that to escape from him she had to live in a tobacco barn.
The complaint attributes this cruelty to the use of drugs. Mrs. Blalock declares that he has been for several years an habitue. But he has lands and is able to pay the alimony that she demands. The couple have children, and they have suffered the same indignities as she. The husband and father, she says, uses profane epithets in their presence and has made demonstrations against them.
The complaint further alleges that after five years of married life Mrs. “Blalock finally left her husband on December 30, 1924, after she had been forced to take her children and live in tenant quarters made from a tobacco barn, while her husband and his children by a former marriage retained the Blalock home.
It further alleges that Dr. Blalock ceased payments in July of an allowance of $100 monthly ordered in a hearing before Judge Frank Daniels last spring, and that Mrs. Blalock is now without means of support for herself and four children, ranging in age from 5 years to 2 months, the last being born after she had left her husband’s home to seek shelter with friends in Craven county.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Sept. 19, 1925
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