The San Francisco call., 1904-11-11
HIS DOWNFALL
DUE TO DRINK
Wife of Expert Accountant,
Son of a Capitalist, Is
Granted Legal Separation
MRS. BROWN DECEIVED
Married Day of Husbands
Divorce From First Mate
and Now Seeks Annulment

To intemperance is ascribed the in
ability of Joseph A. Wadsworth to
provide for his family. This led to the
breaking up of his home. When drunk
he frequently handled his wife, Clara,
roughly Because of this cruelty Judge
Murasky yesterday granted her a di-
Vorce, $50 a month alimony and the
custody of their six-year-old son.
Wadsworth is the son Of Henry Wads
worth of the Realty Syndicate in Oak
land. He was employed as expert &C
countant at the Wells-Fargo Bank
but lost the position because Of drink
ing. He worked for awhile in Los
Angeles, then for the Southern Pacific
at Sacramento, but was obliged to give
up these places. He was represented
in court yesterday by Attorney E. B.
Young and admitted that he had
caught his wife roughly by the wrists
when intoxicated. He said he was un-
able to pay more than $40 a month for
the support of his child. F. C. Havens
Of the Realty Syndicate testified that
Wadsworth had worked for the COM
pany. From Mrs. Wadsworth and her
mother, Mrs. Sarah Atkinson, man
ager of a private sanitarium, 1t was
learned that Wadsworth drank a
great deal and had twice taken the
cure Mrs. Wadsworth left him two
years ago and has since lived with her
mother. They were married at Mar
tinez in 1897.
Divorces were granted by Judge Ker-
rigan TO Annie McCombe from John
McCombe, desertion; by Judge Gra-
ham to Jullietta NJ. T. Allison from
Herbert S. Allison, neglect; By Judge
Graham for Judge Hunt, to Onesimo
Cevolani from Augusta CeYolani, de-
sertion; to Crauf Grant from Horace
Grant, extreme cruelty; by Judge
Trout to Gertrude A. Wood from
Clarence Wood. neglect; by Judge Sloss
to Charlotte A. Coleman from Dennis
Coleman, neglect; to Alice A. Lewis
from A. NJ. Lewis, neglect.
Judge Kerrigan took under subn1is-
sion the application Of Charles Leaon
Stewart for an annulment of his mar
riage with Mae Morris. He said he
was forced into the union under threat
of prosecution for a felony and that
they were married under the names of
Steward and Morse not long ago in
Marin County.
Suit for annulment Of marriage was
brought by Mae Elizabeth Brown
against John Otis Brown on the ground
of his fraudulent representations. On
May 8, 1902, Brown got an interlocu-
tory decree of divorce from Eliza E.
Brown and on the same day went to
San Rafael, where he married the pres
ent plaintiff, telling her that all that
was necessary TO make the marriage
valid was that it should take place in
some county outside of the one where
the Divorce was granted. Later when
she upbraided him for his deception,
he compelled her, she says, to live with
him by threatening violence II she
should leave.
Lucia Gatty has sued for divorce
from Domingo Gatty, whom she mar
ried in Costa Rica in 1887 and who Is
the father Of her six children. He de-
clines TO support them in spite Of his
profitable business in the Gatty Ma
chine Shop Company at Los Angeles.
She asks for $50 a month alimony for
herself and SIS for the support Of the
children.
Other suits for divorce were filed by
Maud E. Till against Arthur w. Till,
cruelty; Charles H. Madden against
Alice Madden, desertion; Harry Spen-
Ger against Jennie Spencer desertien;
Harriet Jurgensen against John Jur-
gensen, cruelty and intemperance;
Nancy E. Bond against James w.
Bond, desertion; Della Dunning
against James Dunning, cruelty. Dun
ming has $1,000 on deposit and she got
an order restraining him from draw
ing it.