New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-13
DIVORCED IN TEN MINUTES EXACTLY.
THE SEQUEL TO SERIES OF MARRIAGES
BILLS FOR DIVORCE IN ILLINOIS,
KANSAS AND UTAH.

hANSAS AND UTAH.
Chicago Sept. u (speciaD.-The most remarkable
divorce case In many respects tried in the courts
of Cook County. where remarkable divorce cases
not by any means rare was put through in Judge
Tuthils court this morning in ten minutes. The
suit was that of Edward d. Tucker against Josephine
Tucker As the clock in the clerks Office iD tho
Circuit Court indicated 10 80 this morning, Attor-
ney Rufus King appeared in great haste and fled
the bill in the case 1t required Clerk Bradley less
than two minutes to place the ON file. In
less than two minutes more Mr.. King was upon the
next floor above in Judge Tuthll's court. Here a
mddle-aScd man. an old lady and second lady about
forty years old were awaiting him. The three persons
went upon the stand one after another, and at five
minutes after IL o'clock decree divorcing Edward
d. Tucker from Josephine Tucker was a matter of
record Ten minutes by the clock was the time
consumed from the appearance of the lawyer in the
clerks office until the entry of the decree. The
proceeding broke the record
The matter of time is, perhaps the least wonder
fn part of the Tucker case, however. The defendant
herself helped her husband his divorce. This
was the lady Of forty who awaited Lawyer
Kings coming, and the service had her in
the court room saved delay and made ii possible to
try tho in five minutes. Tucker married Jose.
phine at Wayland. Schuyler County Ill.,. in December,
1868. They lived together about year. when she
suddenly deserted him. As he discovered afterward,
she went TO Kansas, and there after a year or two
got limited divorce from him. The divorce was
obtained without his knowledge, but he made no
fuss about It, Instead, he married a new wife. but
afcrWad Cuarred with her and went to Utah.
where he secured d divorce from No. ,. Then he
returned to Illinois free man, he supposed,
and met and loved another woman. He mar
Hed her and went 10 housekeeping at Pontiac. Wifo
No. heard OF his happiness and she appeared in
Pontiac, and put sudden end to it, She had dis
covered that there was an ireguariy about the
[ tab divorce, which for dcsertlon. The mailing
notice, which to summon her to defend the
suit, if she lit to do so, not properly certl-
fed by the clerk In the Utah court Tucker was
arrested for bigamy. Then it found that the
divorce obtained by the wife Of 1865, I'm Kansas, was
Illegal. The divorce he secured among the MormOns
was declared Illegal He st the husband of Jose.
phine, and all The other wives were spurious. He
convicted and sent to Joliet. About year ago
he finished his term there and came to Chicago.
Me. Tucker cOrrObOratcd her husbands story TO
the marriage of 1865 her de- erton, and the divorce
sho obtained in Kansas. Her story brief but
IL sad. There technical defect I'm her Kansas
divorce which rendered II Illegal. although she had
married 10 Mr.. Morris and had become the mother OF
six children, without suspccng that the divorce from
Tucker not lawful Learning OF the complication
into which Tucker had fallen, She come TO Chicago 10
the Snar unraVelled Judge Tuthll ordered that
a decree be entered giving Tucker divorce On the
ground of her deSertion ia 1869.