St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10

as divorce mill. Some do, however.
They are mostly conservatives who have a
horror of exceeding the actual facts. 70 such
am prepared to say that the widest ex-
aggeration of outsiders will scarcely dO
justice to the ease with which one may Sc
cure legal separation here. In years re-
porting of the divorce courts l am prepared
to give few facts relative to this uninter-
esting subject. In the chancery arms of
the two civil courts which do
DIVORCE BUSINESS
there is an average of six suits for divorce
day. Some days there are as mauy as
sixteen filed, other days there are as few as
four or perhaps three. In the last twelve
months there has not been day when the
record showed none. The lowest number
ever filed in one month was one hundred.
Two chancellors are swamped with the
hearing of tales of martial woe every Sat
urday. Upon their calendars it is COM
mon thing to see forty and fifty suits in
scrlbed. The process Isl simple one. You
want divorce. You see lawyer, pay him
$50 and the thing is done. You need con-
Germ yourself no more until you receive
summons to testify in court. You
give your evidence and in couple of days
you are gratified by the receipt OF decree,
making you a free man OF woman. The
lawyer files the suit and six dollars. The
suit takes its regular course ON the docket,
and such is the rush with which
THE GRIsT IS GROUND
that cases frequently go through in two
weeks. The large majority are what Is
termed default cases-caSes where the de-
PENDANTS make no response to the summons
and manifest no concern whether their other
halves succeed in their petitions or not
The majority of causes are deSeru0nS; next
III number are the grounds OF Illicit re-
latlon, and drunkenness and cruelty FOL
low III the order named. The average
OF native Chicagoans to the total number
OF divorce-SeekerS is one to four The
other three out of every four are from out
side of the city, and careful scrutiny by one
OF the. chancellors who has endeavored by
every means in his power to detect fraudu-
lent cases and throw them out OF court,
leaves no doubt of the fact that
MIsMATED CoUPES FLOCK
here from all quarters to have the nuptla
knot united. The law is that parties SHALL
reside two years in the state before they can
get decree, but this provision is easily
evaded by false testimony. The plaintiffs
find no trouble, either, in getting people to
swear they known them for
two years. Before Judge Tuley
last Saturday woman secured divorce
by proving that her husband
had held improper relations with another
woman. The very next petitioner was this
woman herself who charged her own hus-
band with infdelity with somebody else.
HER LAWYER WAS WARNED
that the court would notice the name, and
was advised to put the case off until the
remembrance of it's predecessor had escaped
the Judge. He knew thing or two, the
divorce court lawyer, and after whispered
consultation with his client and her one
lady witness, he boldly called the former to
the stand and throughout the trial adj
dressed her as Mrs. KOrniS when her name
was Connors. He adrOitly held the
bill in his hand and the Judge
did not ask to see it. When the latter
reaches the name to sign the decree the
memory of Mrs. Connors' escapade
will have faded from his judicial mind.
None knows better than the judge,
who has listened for so many years to the
disgusting stories of welded infelicity, the
shallow superficiality of the supposed TO
nance of divorce courts. There is no TO-
nance in Them They disgrace the chan
Gerry courts and should be relegated to the
justices shops RANDOM.