The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-12
DIVORCE MILL
STILL GRINDS
COURT HANDS DOWN SEVEN
MORE DEGREES.
Deseition Is the Ground or Which
Most of the Applications Were
Besed--Two Very Brief Honey
moons--one Woman Preferred to
Be Single in Reading Than Mar
lied in Soranton-November Term
of Common Pleas Begins-other
Court House Matters.

Seven more divorces have been
granted by the local court, sx of them
being handed down by Judge Carpcn-
ter and one by Judge Kelly. The
parties are:
Edward Whitman against Iona
Simpson Whitman.
Olive $. Knckerbocker against Peter
H. Kniciierbockcr.
Minnie Thomas against James
Thomas.
William Marker against Kate Mark
er.
Jacob Tentze, against Jane TcntHcr.
Frank Southland against Bessie
Southland.
Flora i. Green against Porter l..
Green.
The last was the one granted by
Judge Kelly. The parties We're married
June 6, 1894. at Mrs. Green's home. at
Hartford. She left him June IL. 1897.
on account of his untaithfulness and
took up her residence with her mother
at Hallstead. Alice Coates. of IS Court
street, Binghamton, is named as core
spOndent.
The Whitmans We're married Jan. u.
1895. at Carbondalc. According to the
libcllant's testimony his wife left him
after seven months and took up her
residence with Michael Walsh. Of Car
bondale. She is still living with him.
Whitman lives at 1875 Diamond avenue,
this city.
In the EnickerDocker case, cruelty is
the ground on which the divorce is
granted. They We're married at the
home of Mrs. IInickerbocker's father.
Ezekiel Gu,naer, in Benton. Jan. %,
1887. and lived together at Benton,
Lenox and Millrift, Pike county. for
thirteen years. She was compelled to
leave him on account of his abuse, ana
went back to live with her folks. she
has three married daughters.
The Thomas couple did not finish out
their honeymoon. They We're married
July II. 1889. in West Scranton. by
Rev Peter Roberts, and three weeks
later Thomas deserted her and went
west. She is living in IIallstead
William Marker is n 20-year-old
South Side boy who became cnamoufcd
of one Mrs. Kate Flatley. who worked
at one Of the South Side silk mills.
After he had been going with her for
six months she demanded that II" mar
nv her. and when she led him to be-
licvc that he ought. as a true gentle
man, to make her his wife, he consent
ed to do so. Tho marriage was per-
formed by Alderman j. Davies. of
West Scranton. before whom the widow
had young Marker arraiGncd and con-
fronted with the alternative of marry
ing her or going to Jail Time proved
that the charge she preferred against
him was false; also that she was not
the kind of u woman he would be hap
py with. He left her three months az
ter marriage.
Descrtion was the charge in the
Southland case. They We're married
April 10, 1898. and fourteen days later
she left to visit her parents in Read
ing. She refused to come back, ana
he refused to go to Reading.
In the divorce case OF :. Catherine
Christian against Joseph Il. Christian,
Dec. ., 1901. at 1.30 p. M, i'll Judge
Edwards chamber, was fixed as the
time and place for the taking OF de-
positions. At 4.3O p. M. the same cay
before Judge Edwards, dispositions VIII
be taken in the case of lIiZle l\copief
against John Frederick Kcoplcr.