St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-04
FOUR KNOTS UNITED.
The Regular Weekly Batch o.
DivOroe Cases

The Regular Weekly Batch of
Divorce Cases.
Divorce day In the district court
found eleven cases Of martial infelicity
on the calendar. All were not disposed
of, however, some of them being con-
tinued.
In Judge Hooker's room the ball was
opened by the calling the case of Ber
delta Clark against Lemuel Clark. Mrs.
Clark was accompanied by manly
looking son and a remarkably pretty
daughter, both of them taller than her.
self. She went on the stand fist and
told her story. Her husband is postal
clerk, running between st. Paul and
Omaha. She says that they were mar
rled at Alexandria in 1869, she being
then but fourteen years old. Soon after
their marriage her husband became
abusive to her. Several times, she said,
she had been forced to live apart from
him, but had been induced to return to
him by the entreaties OF her family and
because he was the father of her
and ill treatment all over again. Last
winter they lived in Minneapolis at PAL
Twelfth street south. and it was while
living there that her husband became
most cruel. Mrs. Clark told the court
that once her husband came home
much the worse for liquor, and finding
her lying on a lounge, pulled her off
and beat and abused her for two hours,
throwing her out of the house several
times during the two hours. The neigh
bors finally interfered. and wanted her
to swear out a warrant for him, but that
she would not do, as she thought she
could take care of him herself, small
though she was. She had tried to live
with him. she said, but he deserted her
last February and never returned. His
last words as he left the mouse, as re-
ported by his wife, were: II hope you
will all Starve to death before three
months are gone" But they had not
starved and were now getting along
quite comfortably. Her daughter was
also placed on the stand and closely
questioned by the judge. She admitted
that her mother had a bit of a temper
as well as her father, but he was jealous
given a decree and $50 per month all
mony.
Frank J. Emprenger yesterday went
before Judge Hicks and received a de-
cree of divorce. He is thirty-fve years
old, and his wife Maria, OF ex-wife now,
is nine years his senior. They were
married thirteen years ago, before
Franks beard had become very strong,
and when Maria was approaching that
time of life when ladies are supposed to
partially relinquish their hopes of
matrimony. They have one child which
the mother now has in charge. Frank
told the judge how Maria had left his
bed and board without just cause or
provocation, and he was freed from his
matrimonial entanglements.
Laura Is. ChOues, young colored
woman, accompanied by her father and
mother, good types of the old negro
s'uncle" and "auntie," also came before
Judge Hicks for a divorce. She mar
ried Allen NJ. Choues in Creston, To-,
about six years ago. Allen was au ex-
FOUNDER Of Methodist doctrine, but he
forgot the Biblical exhortation to leave
both father and mother and cleave unto
his wife, and SO he left Laura in 1885
and Creston, 10. She waited for him
for couple of years, but he never re-
turned, SO she moved to Minneapolis.
AS the couple had lived with Mrs.
Choues' mother in Creston, the judge
thought that possibly it might have