The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-04
Scattered to the Four Winds by
the Divorce Courts OF
Chicago.
Hearts that Were Parted are Now
Free to Enshrine Other
pivinities.
"she Left Hawkins for Budge"-I.Ovs on
the Ocean Wave Young Loch hinvar
Out West.

fol- Budge," said witness in divorce case
this morning, and on this presentation the
applicant was granted n decree. He WAS
Charles X. Hawkins, "A cab driver, and
worked nights. Mrs. Hawkins picked up
with u lodger named Bulge, and went to
live with him, the couple passing as Mr..
and Mrs. Stevens.
franklin Swift applied for single blessed
ness in Judge Horizons court. His wife,
Annette, was hypochondriac, a person
suffering from imaginary diseases Of a terri
bic nature. Doctors had pronounced her
healthy and SO did her husband, but she
wouldn't agree with them and so decided to
remain at Silver Creek, N. Y, where she
now is. The court will consider the matter.
Maggie Whelan's husband is serving the
state at Joliet. He was sent there for
shooting man with bullet intended for
his wife's heart. He had frequently
threatened her life and was in the habit
of allowing her a moment or two to make
her peace with heaven. Decree.
Robert Kirkwood, an Englishman, de-
sired separation from his wife Eliza. He
is plumber. While on the ocean steamer
Mrs. Kirkwood formed the acquaintance of
York met him at disreputable house.
They came to Chicago q few years ago and
the wife recently went to live with another
man whom she liked better. A divorce was
granted.
Judge Tuley's attention was called to the
woes of Mrs. Jemima Stock, of Wellington
avenue, Lake View. 1t would appear that
Isadore Stock, the husband, married Jemi-
ma in 1883 for revenue only, she having
81 GOO. He spent the money for beer and
pretzels and then forced his:frau to abandon
his bed and board. The applicants sister.
Mrs. Gretchen Obermeyer, recited the fol-
lowing story:
He spend her money for drink and have
big fight with her, hut she will say nothing
to me. / find her in bed, oh, so sick, and I
call to her a doctor. She have no fire. no
light, nothing have to eat; oh, she was SO
poor .alretty. He is bad man. but with
other people he is very good-iust all the
time like an actor. SO one day he 90 direct
~ out VI the house and make together his
things. He with a lawyer comes back and
the lawyer says she must go from the
house, but if she takes her things she will
be arrested. So she come to me and we see
him no more" Decree.
"People should show more sense in get
ting married and we would have fewer
divorce cases. remarked Judge Horton
when Mrs. Lena Bender said she married
Jacob Bender June 16, 1890, but never
lived with him as he had no occupation and
could not provide home. They had only
been acquainted week before marriage.
decree was granted.
After securing decree of divorce from
Josef Romanowicz on the gound of cruelty.
that gentleman's wife, a young and pretty
Polish girl, startled Judge Horton by a re-
quest for permission to resume her maiden
Though hesitating on grounds of public
policy the court finally consented.
Judge Tuley gave Mrs. Helen 4. Messen-
ger, an Oak Park dressmaker, a decree of
divorce from Alpheus H. Messenger, a
furniture fnisher who, though able to
earn $3.50 a day, spent most of his time
in saloons and what money he earned in
drink.
Quite romantic story of marriage for
spite and successful entreaties of the dis
carded ,suitor was told in Judge Hawes'
court. September 4, 1887, James Parkinson
and his wife, Mamie, were married IN St.
Mary's church. A reception followed at
the intended home of the couple and
friends of the bride and groom danced until
late in the morning. All this time the dis
carded suitor over whom Parkinson had
been successful, lurked outside in the dark
and through the windows enviously watched
the merry party within. At last he gained
an interview with his tickle mistress. The
result vas very Lochinvar-like episode.
Mrs. Parkinson and her lover fed through
an alley and were soon lost to the sight of
known, but Mrs. Parkinson soon returned
to her mothers home and has since lived
there. She refuses to return to her husband
and he will be given decree.