Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-02
FOUR DIVORCES
Judge Shumway Fasting Out Sepa-
 ration Certificates To-day.


 dom for four petitioners before Judge Shnnway to-day.
 Rome and Naples were the scene CT action in the suit of Eugenio Renni' against yencenzo Renno, and statutory grounds were the basis. Renna stated \ that he came to this country from Ma pies in 1899, leaving his wife and fam | iy comfortably settled. \ few years ago he went back to bring them over hero and found his business sold out. his wife gone and their children dis | tributed among friends. He traced his wife to Rome and found her living uii- der circumstances not satisfactory to the laws of the land. He brought his N children hero and did not bother any more with his wife. But she deter mined to bother about him and last summer she came here and had him arrested for nOn-support. Great eX- citement was caused anong their friends On the grounds of desertion the petition was granted.
 The scenes in the next case. that or Nellie J. Mason, nee Mabbott, against John D. Mason. were laid ill Tampa, Fla. and Oklahoma and Waterbury. Mrs Mason was once very well known here. She has two children. both married. Desertion was the grounds of her action. On May 5 1879. she became the wife of Mason. and on Oc- tober. 1891. he deserted her. One morning Mason said he thought it would be advisable for him to go south for the benefit of his health and he left for Savannah. Ga. She next heard from him in request for money. She advised him to come home, but he wrote back that he could not, and that he could get nothing to do.
 Tampa. Fla. he was next heard from. He was arrested there for bigamy and fined S75 and costs.
 AIason's defense was that he sup posed his wife had obtained a divorce from him.
 From Tampta he went to Oklohoma. and there he sued for divorce. Mrs Mason put in defense through At torney Brett and the case was with drawn. Mason claimed his wife had deserted him. That was the last heard of him.
 Mrs Fred Bauby, petitioners daugh- ter. and Mrs Kate R. MabbOtt, her daughter-in-law testified. and likewise Attorney Brett. This petition was also granted.
 After four months acquaintance with Mary X. Dunworth. who lived on Hayden street Samuel Taft of Nauga tuck made her his wife. In short time Mrs Taft developed such Il fond ness for strong drink that life with her became burden to Taft Two or three times she was arrested for in f.~,, ,,,I nf fame in Naugatuck.
 Taft could not explain how his wife developed such foildness for drink. She never complained to him. and he said that she was pretty cute anyway and seldom said anything" Their marriage took place on December 23. 1896. and was performed by the Rev Dr Rowland. On the grounds of in- temperance this petition was allowed.
 The married life of Elizabeth and Charles II. King was brief. Their mar rage took place on January 1G. 1898. For d time they lived with Kings peo- ple. but eventually went to housekeep- ing it 1O Grand street. Tiey-isea to- getber two years. King always had an idea of living in New York. One evening as they were enjoying the quiet of their home. King said he would 70 to New York. This was an old story with the young wife. but she finally said he might as well go. So he brought his chums from the shop and sold h.. wife's dining room furni- ture. Then he packed her off to New York to rooms he had secured through her sister. who lived there. This was in March. 1900. He went down in week or So after. hut lIc soon tired of life In the blg city. returning to his folks home here in week or two.
 Mrs King wrote him few days later to sec what he was going to do about her, and he wrote back that he would 20 down and see. One day she went to her sisters and there found q letter from her husband saying that it would be useless for them to try to live together again. that they had tried it too often and it did not work. ne would either % to Buffalo and wor.- there. or to Boston and enlist. He att vised her to save whatever few dol lars she had and that whatever she would do. nOt to go to his mothers for there was nO welcome there f.. her. He advised her to write no more to him. and he bale her long long goodbye. This was dated March Fl 1gDI
 Next day was sunday and Mrs kIn. came to Waterbury. She called upon her mother.in-law. but sne said she knew nothing about her son. She al- ways made irouhie for her daughter in-law and oiie day she made q srcne outside the Catholic church which pc- titioner used to attend. King was q non-Cathoiic and religion was the cause of their domestic difficulties.
 Later. however. petitioner found that her mother-in-law had deceived her. I'pon the advice Of Prosecutor Duranf she lived with her mother-in-law. One evening when the family was out Kings grandmother toIu her that all her husbands letters and some of her own were concealed under her mother in-iaw's mattress. This she found to be true and they disclosed the fact that the woman was tn actual rurrespon- dans-e with her sen. though she prp- feSSed ignorance of his whereabouts to his wife.
 Affer sene difficulty petitioner c.. estesi her huslgnI in Staten Island She astoni-bel him sne evening by walking dirrrily against him as L. was rpfurning frpEn wrrk. He cursed and Sworr and said he wouII ,la uotl- n--.. r.. nsz-s n sr.-