Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-02
Judge Clancy Grants Him a
Decree Of Divorce.
CHARLOTTE N. HEATING
Also Presented With a Decree OF Re-
lease From Martial obi
cations -Legal Links.

Judge Clancy opened his session of
court a little earlier thar usual this
morning in order to give Philip Herring
an opportunity to present his proofs in
the suit brought by him against his wife.
Lena Ella Herring, for divorce. Mr.. Her
ing told the judge he resided in Park
county and his wife in Butte; that he had
tried to get her to return to her home in
Park county, but she would not do it.
He was confident, he said, that his wife
was living with another man. as he had
frequently seen them together.
Judge Clancy asked if the case had
not been before judge Lindsay on one
OCCASION, and was informed that it had
not: tina the issue before was the GUS
tody of their minor child, a boy about 5
years old.
The decree asked for was granted and
Herring went his way rejoicing.
While in the decree granting business
the court also took action in the suit of
Charlotte NJ. Heating vs.. Michael Keat-
ing. The keatings were united in mar
riage in this city on the 21st of May, 1896.
and on the Sth of October Of the same
year they had a misunderstanding and it
resulted in a separation that has been
maintained. Mrs. Heating testified to
these facts and added that since. the sep
aration she had earned her own living
by doing homework. She also said that
during their brief domestic career
Michael had abused her. He had struck
her with his fists and a chair and had
thrown dishes at her. The testimony she
gave vas corroborated in a measure by
Mi. ackson, an employment agent. who
stated that SO far as he knew she had
conducted herself as a lady since the
separation. The defendant, he stated,
was in the city. The decree was granted
on two grounds, desertion M non-sup-
port.
Minnie Richey has brought suit against
George w. Richey for divorce. She al
leges that Mr.. Richey has been for more
than five years an excessive user Of in
toxicating liquors. That on this account
he has failed to support her. and in addi-
ton has treated her cruelty. Two chill
dren have been born to them. and she
asks for their custody along with a de-
cree of divorce.
Sheriff Regain and two of his deputies,
Messrs. Aware and Evans, accompanied
by Cornelius Kelly, chief deputy to the
county attorney, left overland today for
Madison count in search of fish and
fowls. They will be gone about two
weeks.
In the matter of the estate OF William
Henry Thomas, a petition was presented
to the court by Emma Thomas, the ad.
ministratrix. today asking that the es.
tate, consisting of 81, 044. 05 worth of prop.
erty, be set aside for the use of the
widow and children, and that further
proceedings in the administration be dis.
pensed with.
DAME Shields, recently appointed by
the county commissioners to fill the va.
cancy caused by the failure of j. B
Knight to secure a new bond as consta.
BILE in South Butte township, took the
official oath yesterday and filed his bont
today. The bond bears the signatures
of Patrick Shields, Joseph MCFARLAND
and Hugh Murphy. The former signed
for 81, 900, Mcfarland $4,000 and Murphy
$500.