The San Francisco call., 1904-12-20
HER THIRD SUIT
IS FOR SUPPORT
Edith Dunphy Now Demands
Allowance From Clubman,
as Separate Maintenance
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Trial of Kowalsky Case Is
Begun Before Judge Sloss.
Butchers Wife Divorced

A third falling-out between Edith M.
Dunphy and James M. Dunphy, club
man and ranch owner, is apparent from
the complaint filed yesterday by Mrs.
Dunphy demanding $3.50 a month from
her husband as separate maintenance
and for $500 attorneys fees.
The Dunphys were married on Janu-
ary of last yeS' it being her third
matrimonial venture. Last spring she
sued him for divorce on the ground of
cruelty, and her accusations were SEN
sational They made up and she did
not press the case, but toward the end
of the summer she filed supplemental
complaint, repeating the former charges
and adding new instances of alleged
brutal treatment. She also intimated
the expected arrival of Dunphy heir.
In yesterdays action the grounds of
the other complaints are gone over, and
in addition she says that on October 19
last, at Carlin, Nay, in the presence of
others, he made vile charges against her,
and on November 3, at the Hotel Bal
timore, in this city, he threatened to
kick her and declared that he was not
the father of their unborn child. The
wife says Dunphy is worth 100000. Her
attorneys are Sullivan & Sullivan.
The divorce case of Ettie Kowalsky
against Joseph Kowalsky was called
for trial in Judge Sloss' court yesterday
morning, and after the reading of the
pleadings a continuance was taken. j.
c. Campbell, attorney for Ettie Kowal-
sky, the plaintiff, moved that the hear
i'm ha ho hahtnd rlncod 6nOrG The
defendant is represented by his brother,
Colonel H. l. Kowalsky, and Attorney
Crowley.
The Kowalskys were married on
February %, 1898, and lived for
awhile at the Baldwin, then moved to
1916 Fulton street. Kowalsky was a
shoe dealer but now deals in stocks.
His wife charged him with cruelty and
penuriousness. After allegations re-
garding his physical condition, she
charged that he allowed her as little
as 80 a week, and when she asked for
more, cursed and reviled her and made
! her account for the expenditure of that
/ paltry sum. She said that he frequent
/ ly ordered her to leave the house, and
on May 90 of last year she left him.
She said that her husband was worth
100000 and had an income of $3.50 a
month of which she wanted $3.50 a
month for alimony.
In his answer and cross-complaint
Kowalsky denied the charges of cruel
ty and penuriousness. He said that his
wife told him that she would rather
: kill herself than become a mother.
He denied that he was worth more
than $3S,600 and that his income was
more than $3.50 month.
An interlocutory decree of divorce
was granted by Judge Hunt to Mary
f. Seyner from Joseph Seyner, butch
er, on the ground of extreme cruelty.
They were married in 1888 and she
testified that he made her spend her
days in the shop, keeping books, and
was brutal to her. often threatening
to kill her and himself Seyner is
worth about $14 1000. and the property
interests of the pair were settled out
of court. Divorces were granted by
Judge Kerrigan to Emile Frankard
from Maria Frankard for infidelity; by
Judge Hunt to Mary E. Beach from
Edward T. Beach, neglect; by Judge
Hebbard to Minnie A. Aver from Ed
ward A. Aver, neglect.
Suits for divorce were filed by JOS
eph Mclaughlin against Annie J. Nc
Laughlin, intemperance and cruelty
Daisy Smith against Wilfred Smith
neglect and desertion.