The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
GETS DIVORCE
WITH ALIMONY
Ada NJ. Wood Succeeds in
Proving Her Accusations
Against Paying Teller
DEATH BEATS DIVORCE
Judge Hebbard Sets Aside
DEGREES Entered After
Decease of Defendant

After hearing occupying the entire
afternoon in Judge Graham's court yes
terday a divorce was granted to Ada
NJ. Wood from John R Wood, paying
teller of the Crocker- Woolworth Ma
tionaI Bank, on the ground of infidelity.
c. w. Durbrow represented the plain
tiff and Woods case was conducted by
Charles ]. Heggerty-
Mrs. Wood testified that she had
found three letters from Mrs. Tyler in
Mr.. Woods trousers pocket, and be-
cause of their contents she left their
home in Mill Valley and came here to
live with her parents. The epistles were
read in court and were full of endear-
ing terms.
The testimony of John E. Powers,
special agent for the North Shore Rail-
road. and of S. w. Churchill, a clerk
for the H. S. Crocker Company, was
based upon observations made by them
through a transom of a room adjoining
the one occupied by the teller and his
companion at the Commercial Hotel on
various dates in June
Wood was examined only as to the
COHQlIlOH Ol HIS uHdHCeS- I1C Sdlu hC
had lost his position in June because
of the notoriety arising from the di-
vorce action, and was taken back in
the banks employ in September at
salary of $3.50 instead of $275. which he
had received before, though he is now
performing the same duties. His home
in Mill Valley. he said, was sold for
debt and he has no property. His evil
dence regarding the discharge from the
bank was corroborated by Cashier
George w. Kline and the deposition of
Assistant Cashier Wellington Gregg.
The court ordered that Mrs. Wood
should be paid $50 a month alimony,
$3.50 counsel fees and $50 costs
NO DIVORCE FROM THE DEAD.
Judge Hebbard yesterday set
aside the interlocutory and absolute
DEGREES of divorce ordereds entered by
himself in the case of Amy E. Grace
against Joseph H. Grace. The defend
ant in the case died on August % last,
and on September IA Leon Samuels,
representing the mother and sister of
the dead husband in the probate court,
moved that the DEGREES be entered, his
purpose being to shut the wife out from
Mrs. Grace was granted an interloc-
utory decree of divorce on the ground
of cruelty on May 20. 1908, but for some
reason the decree was never entered in
the clerks office Samuels obtained the
order for an entry of the interlocutory,
nunc pro tune and for the entry of the
final decree more than three weeks
after the defendants death. The cir
cumstances were called to Judge Heb
bard's notice by Mrs. Grace's motion TO
have the DEGREES set aside, saying that
her desires had not been consulted. In
his written opinion the Judge says;
There is no law that compels the
plaintiff in a divorce case to obtain
decree when she does not desire it, and
particularly in a case where the de-
fendant has died prior to the entry
thereof Divorce proceedings interest
only the plaintiff, the defendant and
the State of California. Interference
by any one else will not be tolerated by
the court
Judge Kerrigan yesterday granted
divorce to Flora Karlson from David
Karlson, who owns second hand furni-
ture stores on Mission and Market
streets. She charged him with assault
ing her with chairs, iron bars and other
weapons and said that he only allowed
her fifty cents a day for the purchase
of food Karlson entered general de-
NAL of the accusations through his at
torney. julius Kahn, but did not ap-
pear in court to oppose the case
HUSBAND A BIGANIIST.
Virginia II. Barker obtained from
Yesterday, an order annulling her mar
riage with Benjamin F. Germain, who
has been held to answer for bigamy.
The ceremony was performed May II
last Judge ]. J. Van Nostrand ofhciat-
ing Less than a month later Germain
deserted her and on July 10 she learned
that he had married another woman in
Oregon City last year. Germain was
arrested in Wyoming.
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