The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-03-24
MRS. COzzENS
GETS DIVORCE.
Charged Husband With Failure
10 Provide For Her.
HE KEEPS HOTEL IN CENTREDALE
Wife Alleged That Hs Had Not Supported
Her For More Than Six Years.
SHE WOULD NOT LIVE IN THE HOTEL
Husband Says When He Asked Her 10 Do So She
Answered II You waHitu Sell Rum
You Can 60.
He WOULD NOT LIVE IN THE HOTEL

Laura y. Cozzcns' petition for a di-
vorce fromyhe husband Charles IL
Cozacfs. ptbpHctor of a hotel at ct>l-
tredale. vaS. heard by The Appella,ts
Court tOdaE and granted. AIR. Coz.ens
did not very strongly oppose the peti-
tion for which was asked for on the
ground Of failure TO provide neces-
saries
Mr. Cozzens was directed TO pay his
wife alimony OF s. a week. The trou-
bic between the couple eliminated
when Mr. Cozzens went into the hotel
business, his wife objecting TO the way
he conducted his business. Mr.. Cozzens
claimed his business was not prohta-
ble TO him.
Mrs. Cozzens testified that she had
lived IN Providence about a year and a
half before May, 1896. She was mar
ried to her husband i'm 1871 and separ-
ated from him about six years ago.
She had four children. one of whom. n
daughter. is a school teacher. Her
husband had not supported her more
than half the time she lived with him.
For a long time she had resided in
Centredale. North Providence, and her
reason for leaving that place was that
her husband had shut off her milk
man and her grocer the latter refus-
ing her a can OF Kerosene. According
10 Mrs. CoZzens the reason for this was
ttrut-irrr irtryirauti tir-'irrti -fffeec
from North Providence. IL was on his
fathers farm they lived and the hus
band said ne could let the farm for
more money than IL would cost To live
elsewhere and offered To support her
anywhere else. expressing his willing
ness to divide his last cent with her
Mr. CozZcns now and for good
while. his wife said. has conducted the
Hotel Cuzzens at Centredale. Mrs COZ
zens said she never visited this hotel
and never was on the same side of the
street. II was admitted that the hot i
had LIQUOR license. once when there
was scarlet fever at the witness home
one of her sons went to-tite hotel be
cause the doctor would not permit the
child TO stav home and Mr.. Cozzens
would not let the boy stay there. as
he said the child would hear things IL
would not be well To hear.
Mrs. Co2Zens said in answer To queS-
Cozzens that she saw by the papers her
husband had become insolvent. Counsel
for Mrs. CozZens said he admitted Mr..
CoZzens' property was sold under
mortgage Mrs. CoZzens also said her
husband apparently conducted the
hotel Just the same as he had done be-
fore the failure.
\ son of the parties to the contro-
versv testified there was n bar i'm the
hotel and once he saw a woman ring
for beer and get the beer.
Mrs. Ida Whipple testified she was
the next ncighbor of Mrs. Cozzens and
If the latter had gone TO live at the
hotel she would not have visited her
Mr. Harris-"You would not call at
place where Intoxicating liquors were
sold Mrs. Whipple?' Mrs. Whipple
replied she had been at places where
liduor had been sold. hut added II don't
regard his place as a proper place 10
call at"
Mr. Cozzens said he had no property
and that after The foreclosure OF the
mortgage the Hanley Brewing company
running behind I'm the business. He
had 20 give up his trade rs blacksmith
on account Of the rheumatism in his
shoulders lie said i'm answer to CROSS
cNamins tion of Louis L. Angel. coun-
sci Cor Mrs. CoZ2ens. that he had no
steady boarders When he started the
hotel ne asked h's wife TO go with him
there and they would run a first-class
hotel and she said: III you want 60 sell
rum. YOU can GO