The herald., 1893-07-06
This KNOT WAS SOON UNITED.
Fresno People Well Known
Here Divorced.
Some Quick Work Done By the
Lawyers and Court.
ssnsation Among the Society People
OF the Sensational City : The
Whole Business Done In
Loss Than an Hour.

day contains a dispatch from Fresno
relative to Mr.. and Mrs. W. d. Grady o
that city, who are we'll known il
this city having visited friends here. Th,
troubles o. the two were written up tt
same extent in the local press the las
time Mrs. Grady visited here when sht
was the guest of the wife of well knowr
lawyer of this city, The dispatch is al
follows:
FRESNO, July 3.-One of the most re-
markable divorce suits ever recorded in
this or any other state was entered on
the books of Fresno's superior court to.
day. In point OF time it beats the rec
ords even OF Dakota. The parties to the
suit were w. d. Grady. a well-known
lawyer and politician of this city, and
Annie M. Grady, his wife.
They were married five years ago in
this city. Mrs. Grady's maiden name
was Annie NJ. Wristen, and she was one
OF the most popular bellies OF Central
California and leading member OF
Fresno's 400. She was w. ID. Grady's
second wife, although when he led her
to the altar he was yet a young man and
10 the height of his popularity. He was
accounted we'll on the road to great
wealth. He had built a theater in
Fresno and had been leader in several
important movements, social and politi-
cal. Today'H proceedings separated him
and Mrs. Grady. What makes it re-
markable is that the proceedings from
first to last did not occupy as much time
as is usually consumed by the lawyers
in getting one paper placed on record.
At 2:l5 O'Clock this afternoon James
q. Gallagher, the attorney for Mrs.
Grady, and partner of w. d. Grady,
walked into the county clerks Office
and filed the suit of Annie M. Grady vs.
w. ID. Grady, an action for divorce.
Within As minutes from that time all
the machinery OF the law and courts had
been set in motion. An answer to the
complaint had been filed, three witnesses
had been sworn, judgment had been
entered and had been placed on the
docket and judgment had been entered
on the judgment roll.
At o'clock decree of divorce had
been granted, within three-quarters OF
an hour of the fling o. the first paper,
and the bond of matrimony had been
dissolved and Mr.. Grady and Mrs. Grady
walked out of the court room no longer
man and wife.
The case had been called for trial be.
fore Judge NJ. X. Harris, who sat spe-
cially for hearing the case, his depart
for the summer. The ground on which
the action was brought wac habitual in
Mr.. Grady did not resist,
but acknowledged all the charges. The
examining of the witnesses occupied but
two or three minutes each. 1t was of
course mutual agreement between the
paint # and the defendant.
1t wac not the fret time they had seen
riIV IupiaO Gfib CvtII uossIr aivOIU0 uur-
tera. On February z, 1889, Mrs. Grady
brought suit for divorce against her hus-
band, and the tongues of gossips were
busy with epeculations as to the cause
and grounds. No one had ever surmised
that life had any thorns or rough places
for them, and uociety about Fresno re-
ceived rude awakening when it became
known, and it was rendered all the
more interesting because nobody could
find out what the cause was.
Mrs Grady left Fresno and spent some
time with friends in Los Angeles. Fin
ally her husband visited her there, and
the result was that all differences were
patched up, and they came back to
Fresno happy as larks in spring and the
suit was at once dismissed.
On November 8, 1891, there was an
other Yiple on the surface OF Fresno 90
cety when the fact was published chat
another suit was filed in court here ask
ing for divorce. This time plaintiff was
Mrs. Grady, and the same veil of secrecy
was thrown around every thing. But it
was known that for some time before the
suit was brought Mrs. Grady had not
been in Fresno living with her husband,
but had been in San Francisco moving
in gay and fashionable circles.
In connection with this the name OF
young railroad man who was building
road in the San Joaquin valley was mem
toned. But this suit. like the one be-
fore, was dismissed without coming to
trial. The parties made up all their
aud all went well till today,
when the present suit was rushed
through the court at record-breaking
speed. Neither one seemed disposed to
give the other a chance to change his or
her mind
About six weeks ago Mr.. Grady's
financial affairs reached that state when
it became necessary for him to go
through insolvency for the second time
in his life. He failed for $50. 600, with
assets at less than 10 per cent of that
amount. 1t ia not supposed that this
had anything to do with Mrs. Grady's
resolution to sever the ties which had
bound her and her husband together
for several years, for she had stood by
him in adversely before, when he had to
pawn mis- watch to meet the demands
upon his pocket. He once before went
through insolvency. failing for large
amount. He is man known by repu-
tation over most of California, having
been in Democratic conventions for the
past II years wherever one has been
held.
Today's divorce has eet tongues going
again, and Fresno has the reputation OF
being raisin center, railroad center
and the center OF the state geographic
ally, but also now it has taken big
step in advance of Dakota and Chicago
in the matter of getting a divorce
through the courts 30 quickly that
neither party has time to back out but
must 60 the trip on which he started.
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