The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-12-01
FOR HER HONOR.
Is 0al1doGnia wonnadso Inn9 9fxn1r.
- Gle TO Prove Hae1Gas1iaga


a whits-haired old lady. With hent
figure and sad worn fscs, R,ye the.
outlines Of . curious story before
Judge Hunt In San Francisco thu other
day. She was over seventy years old
and she wanted ssdivorce, Il sho- d
married. or what she calls ..iusticer 81
she Is not married. Therein. eays the
San Francisco Examines. lies the whole
point in the controversy abe q making.
For forty years she has been STRUGGLING
to earn q living and settle that dispuf-
ed point Once the courts decided that
she was married, but by freak Of Tor
tune tho Judgment was never entered
up. and BY her victory abe only offered
another ground for contest TO tho man
Sne calls her husband. Catherine joys
was was married 20 Thomas Joys in Killar-
ney, Ireland, In April. 1912, % the old
iady. Mrs Joy. claimed. to Judge Hunt.
Nearly TWO years Later son was born
20 tncn. IN lS47, i've years After the
iaaIsr1age. joys suddenly disappeared
from Alllarney. Abont the same time
one OF the village beauties, Ann Cox,
aIso lett her homo. Shortly afterward
everybody knew that joys had gone TO
america Z. A little later he reached Cal
norma AFTER knocking about awhile
nc setticd IN this city.
MIS-. joys learned OF his whereabouts
snd ioliowed MN here as soon Is she
s ,u ges money enough together.
Ans sW's pa 1907 sne tried repeatedly
s ~ aase mm lecos nl1e ner' ont ne stead
.''ss1y 'eluso' sc'ut!y enrman9 that he
nsu ne.el arr1eo ner: sne remained
ueal .11n' however hoping against
uope wa. ne wouto cnango nus mind
ena ta.e ner 70 ms nome One day q
.etee, aFo" Areianu Drought her tid1ngs
tnat ner BOY was dangerously sick. She
hurried 10 MN ana arrived only In time
20 20 oestow q parting blessing before he
:"eu' FRIENDS couected another purse
w neF anu sue returned again to the
lFu1tless struggle OF trying to gain
some sort OF recognition from Joys.
he would have nothing to do with her
ana denied her all assistance. Mrs.
Joys earned what she could working
OUT ee5t1ng nelp II She needed it from
1r3enos VINO knew her story.
Ae''n"nl1e Joys nad succeeded In
gus, :us,ne's ana was accommodating nice
uttle properly. Ann Cox the while,
was hv1nS At ~ hayes street. In 1879
Toys thought his affairs in such . fine
shape ana his prospects, 80 free from
disturbance that he married her. A lit
Tie later Mrs: Joys No. l brought suit
tor dlvoree on the grounds Of iafldeli
". The case was fought long and Bit
terly in the old district court. The
great point In the fight was to prove
her marriage to joys in Killarney. Mrs
Joys won her suit and was declared to
be the legitimate wife of Joys. She
was granted the divorce and joys was
oroered 70 pay her twenty-five hundred
collars as ner snare OF tho community
property. She had alleged that Joys
was worth over twenty thousand dol
lars ana detailed where the property
was located, but Joys swore that he
neid the property In trust for Miss Cox.
at that time costs In suit were very
heavy. The charges against Mrs. Joys
70 enter up this judgment would have
oeen soraethlng like one hundred and
thirty dollars. iowa fny,ohf ho<1r