The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-15
DIVORCES
ARE PLENTY

Annie S. Reist has filed a libel for
divorce against Jay II. Reist. The
libelant sets forth that they were
married in Honolulu, Kingdom of Ha-
wall" on December "a, 1888, and that
there now survive as issue two
children, viz: Lily Reist, II years of
age, and BERTHE Reist, Is years of age.
Said libelee,' says the libelant,
has no property either within this
Territory or elsewhere. insofar as the
knowledge of this libelant extends
other than his clothing and personal
belongings"
For three years it is claimed the
libelee has utterly failed to provide
his wife or children with maintenance.
In 1891, it is charged that the libelee
absolutely deserted the libelant and
departed from the kingdom, and has
continued to absent himself from the
islands, and has ceased to communicate
with her.
DIDN'T LIKE ARREST.
After listening to abuse and accusa-
tions against her character for five
years, Mrs. Julia w. Meyers has de-
cided that she and her husband would
be better off divorced than married.
Mrs Meyers yesterday filed suit for
divorce against Louis Meyers, and sets
forth her reasons for wishing to break
the alliance in detail.
The couple We're married in Honolu-
lu on November 2S 1900, and have two
children. Since December of this
year they have lived apart, the libel
ant claiming this is no fault of hers.
She claims her husband, who is an en-
gineer at Kihei plantation, has failed
and refuses to provide for her or their
children.
Mrs. Meyers says that ever since
their marriage she has been treated in
a cruel and inhuman manner by her
husband, often in the presence of 9TH
ers; has accused her of unchastity, and
applied vile and insulting epithets to
her. She states these accusations are
totally false and without foundation.
on December he came to their home
in an intoxicated condition, land in a
fit of unjustihable and unprovoked
anger did revile her and apply the
most opprobrious and insulting
epithets to her, and did charge her
then and there with having committed
the offense of adultery with divers per-
sons, and did order her to leave the
house and remain away therefrom." In
great fear she left the house that night
and went to the home of a neighbor,
and was followed by her husband. on
December s, she states that the libelee
caused her arrest on charge of
adultery, land with the intent of fraud
ulently obtaining against libelant a
conviction for grave moral and
criminal offense (thus enabling him TO
obtain a divorce against said libelanD
did appear against libelant upon her
trial for said offense in the district
court of Honolulu" She was found
not guilty by the court.
She says Meyers is a strong, robust
and intelligent man, and is in receipt
of monthly salary of more than 500,
and is the owner of property in the
| Territory, She asks for temporary
maintenance, court and attorneys fees
She asks for the custody of the chill
dren, and $50 a month alimony.
ALLASEN QUIT THE ISLANDS.
Return OF service in the divorce libel
of Ida B. Allasen VS.. Edward o. Ala
sen has been made. The Deputy
Sheriff says that he is informed the
libelee is now in the mainland. The
couple were married in Honolulu or
August s, 1903. but since November
1908, they have not lived together
the wife claiming she was abandoned
in that month. She wishes to resume
her maiden name of Ida Braun.