Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-13
Related to Judge Collier in the Mat
rimonial Branch of Court
ACTIONS FOB DIVORCE FILED.
4 Humber Of Rather Severe Sentences
Pronounced Yesterday.
BUSINESS OF THE COUNTY COURTS

who were made dance attendance in thu
surety and desertion branch of the Quarter
Sessions yesterday.
Mary White had John White hauled up
She said they had been married 21 years ant
demanded relief from his alleged propen
sity to whip her when his dinner did no
digest well. Mrs. White evidently though
there is time when o woman becomes o
age in matrimony and 21 years have passed
since the relation was assumed. She sale
John had whipped her off and on" during
these and on the particular occasion com
planned of the alleged provocation was hel
neglect to feed the chickens prop
erly. She wanted severance, and
said the Judge, evidently an alderman
had told her the Court would give her one
John made defense, part of which was
that he was employed at Lindsay & Nc
Cutcheon's s mill, but it didn't win Judge
Collier, who said that $40 fine the payment
of costs and security to keep the peace
toward Mary would settle the case. Mrs.
White wasn't satisfied and asked the Court
to give her a separation, but the Court
wouldn't relax the rules in this respect
Old Enoush h to Know Better.
Annie Mccormick, of McKeesport,
wanted Daniel Mccormick, Of this city,
made support her. Daniel and Annie are
we'll up toward 20 years Of age. Annie said
that Daniel had turned her out of the house
Is years ago. She was his second wife, and
she said the ejectment took place five weeks
after marriage, and her attorney said that
in September, 1877, the Court had directed
Daniel to pay her So week and had dis
charged him on his own recognizance, and
the docket showed Daniels subscription to
the terms. On the other hand, Daniel swore
that Annie left him and that she made his
home uncomfortable while she STAYED in it.
His daughter supported him by stating
that her step-mother had turned her and
her grandmother out of the house; that the
grandmother was still living at the age of
SO, and that Daniel, witness father, was
doing his duty as son and father, and that
he was but a common laborer and could not
support Annie independently of the family.
The daughter also denied that her STEP
mother had been elected. The Court re-
fused to interfere at present and directed
the case to be continued.
Ida j. Somers complained that the allow
ance made to her by the court, 81 a week,
was insufficient to support her two children,
and asked that her husband, j. L. Somers,
be made increase 1t. Mr.. Somers' counsel
said that Mrs Somers had gotten more than
the amount allowed her and cited case
where she had made him give 5000 before
she would sign deed. The amount was in
creased to three week.
Wanted to Be Taken Care Of
Mrs Amelia Kirby, of Shetland avenue,
East End, said she was 50 years of age and
unable to take care of herself, and also that
her son, w. Fl. Kirby, was in receipt of an
income of 81. 500 year, and she asked that
court compel him to support her.
band died he left her the possessor
of some furniture which was in her son s
house. The son, however. easily succeeded
in turning the tables on his mother. She
said he and her daughter-in-law had made
her situation intolerable, but he swore that
he had done all he could for her, and his
wife testified that her mother-in-law was
under the influence of fortune tellers and
others, who had made all the trouble. Both
deposed that there was place at their table
and a room for Mrs Kirby's occupancy at
any time she saw fit to resume her place in
the family, and that they had done all they
could to contribute to her comfort. The
Court stated that Mrs. Kirby, Sr, must ac-
cept the profered hospitality or take care of
herself and at the same time put the costs on
her, but Judge Collier suggested to the son
that it would be eminently proper for him
to pay the costs on general principles. The
old lady's attorney suggested that if he
didn't the county would provide q room
for her.
Two brunettes, j. f. Pendleton and
Francis Strange, occupied considerable at
tention for time. MI. Pendleton said his
residence on Cooper street had been thrown
into confusion by Mr.. Strange, and that
among other things that latter had appro-
priated clock belonging to the prosecutor,
and said he would never bring it back, fol-
lowing up this declaration with threat to
kill the prosecutor. Mr. Strange attempted
to break the force of Mr.. Pendleton's
charges by stating that Pendleton had him
sent to the workhouse on a charge of at
tempting to ALLEVIATE Mrs. Pendleton's affec-
tions, and that their relations were
generally strained but he denied that he
had threatened to kill Mr.. Pendleton. The
latter then proceeded to call "cloud of
witnesses" but this was too much for Judge
Collier and he decided that the evidence of
one lady would be sufficient She said she
had heard Strange say he would kill Pen.
dleton ''sure as God sat in heaven" Mr.
Strange was sentenced to pay costs and
behave himself
Mixed Op Family Relations.
Mrs Samuel Palfreyman gave a tale of
woe Her husband, DR.. Paltreyman, she
said had married her in December and in
January had left her, taking with him their
5-year-old child to Washington county,
The testimony was to the effect that there
had been q sort of Abraham Hagar arrange
ment in the Palfreyman family, though
there was no evidence to show that Mrs.
Paltreyman No. was party to the mat
ter. Finally. as alleged by the attorney of
No. 2, the doctor got a divorce from the
first, married the second and in few weeks
left her, taking with him their 5-year-old
child. Mrs Palfreyman said the doctors
division of the partnership funds was very
unequal, he taking with him mortgages and
other evidences of wealth to the extent of
several thousand dollars and 5000 in gold,
peared to be no evidence that the doctor
had paid any attention to the legal pro-
ceedings instituted against him process
was issued. He is we'll known in this city
and Allegheny and is nearly three times as
old as his second wife.
There were many cases that went over for
want of time to hear them, showing that
there must be something maleiant in the
atmosphere at present.
Actions for Divorce Filed.
Attorney w. W. Campbell, yesterday,
filed the divorce suit Of George E. Allen
against Pallinia Allen. They were married
May 20, 1889, and separated February 1s,
1892. He alleges that when she married
him she had former husband living, Ed
ward w. Thomas, from whom she had never
been divorced. Also that she had been un-
faithful, and Thomas Young is named as CO.
He ALLEGES further that she