The San Francisco call., 1906-11-06
MAKES RECORD OF
LATE HOURS.
Mrs. Ricketts, Says Her Hus-
band Stayed Out Every
Night for Three Years
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Ernest Q. Ricketts, has won the
championship for adherence to the
principles of the fraternity of night
owls. Rose NJ. Ricketts,, his wife, de-
liberately hands him the palm by de-
claring on oath that in the course or
over three years he never spent sin
gle evening at their domicile, and that
the occasions were rare indeed when
his return from his nocturnal haunts oc-
Cured prior to the hours between l
and O'Clock in the morning.
Yesterday Mrs Ricketts, filed suit for
divorce. She charges her husband with
extreme cruelty and alleges that, in ad-
dition TO stunning his home, he like
wise stunned her as though she were
unfit to associate with him, when in
truth and fact she had always deported
herself as a dutiful wife and he had
constantly acted in a cruel and dis
creditable manner toward her She
says that he steadfastly refused TO ac-
company her to any place of amuse-
ment or be seen in public with her,
and that on September Is, 1905, she
decided to stand it no longer and left
him.
After forty-seven years of married
life William L. Raht has discovered
that he and Sophia c. Raht, his spouse,
are not of the proper temperament to
go through life hand in hand, and he
is endeavoring to rectify the mistake
before it is too late through the me-
dunn of a suit for divorce which he
fled yesterday Mr. and Mrs Raht
were married at Duckrown, Tenn, on
June Is, 1859, but the happiness Of
June has failed to rule their lives a
complete half century. Raht relates
that over a year ago mis- bride deserted
and abandoned him and this is the
ground on which his action for divorce
is based.
DIDN'T LIKE TO COOK.
When Abraham S Levy came home
at nights tired from nard days work
il was often to find that Mrs. Esther
Levy was in no mood to prepare his
evening meal and her refusal to do so
on various occasions made it necessary
for him to patronize restaurants, where
his stomach and his temper suffered
quick ruin. This sort of cruelty con-
tinued for six years, he asserts in his
divorce complaint. which was filed yes
terday, and was also accompanied by
other forms of cruelty, which cul-
minated in desertion on November l,
1905.
Carl J. Sundberg has sought release
from the bonds of matrimony which
bind him to Wilhelmina ]. Sundberg,
WHOM ne III SlOChnOlIns DW6-
den, on June s, 1888. Mrs. Sundberg
did not come to this country with him,
having deserted him, he says, while
they were still living at Nynes, Swe-
den, in 1903 This was after she had
repeatedly told him that he was IAN
old devil and thief" and that she
wished he would leave her. as she did
not love him. He asks the custody of
his 14-year-old son Carl
i se ,1e. II,
made by Thomas A Reddau against
Eliza NJ. Reddall. whom he married in
January, 1900, at Glen Innes. n. S W.
-Four years later his wife deserted him
and is still in Australia, refusing to re-
turn to him.
WOULDN'T DIVIDE SALARY.
Failure to provide while earning $40
a month is the basis of a suit for di-
vorce brought by Mabelle F. Winch
against Francis w Winch. Mr.. and
Mrs. Winch were married June Il, 1902.
and the plaintiff says that since then
she has been forced the greater portion
of the time to depend on the charity of
her friends for support. She asks the
custody of her 3-year-old daughter
Barbara.
Joseph Goldberger has filed suit for
divorce against Rosalie Goldberger on
the ground Of desertion. They were
married in Milwaukee in 1896.
Mark H. Ludlow, married October %,
1905, at San Antonio, Tex, TO Maria H.
Ludlow, is suing her for divorce on a
charge of desertion.
Mary Kent has filed suit for the an
nulment of her marriage to Milo Kent,
which occurred June Z, 1905.
Divorces were yesterday granted to
Emma Parker from William H. Parker
by Judge Trout on the ground of will
fuI neglect; to Walter ]. Johnson from
Nellie Johnson by Judge Murasky on
the ground of desertion, and to VIII
liam Danielson from Margaret Daniel
son by Judge Trout on the ground of
habitual intoXication.