Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
WIFE OBJECTS
TO MATIN SONG
HUSBAND ENTERS SUIT FOR
DIVORCE
Troubles Of Huneeks Family Are to
Be Again Aired In court--Havs
Been Married Twenty
five Years

After a truce in hostilities covering
period Of six months past, John
Hunecke will again go before the su-
perior court and ask that he be granted
an interlocutory decree Of divorce from
his wife, Frances Hunecke, on the
ground of cruelty.
The case was tried before Judge York
Of department of the superior court
six months ago and proved highly in
teresting to those who knew the pecu-
liarities Of members of the Hunecke
family.
When all the evidence of the bitterly
contested case had been taken Judge
York ruled that Hunecke had failed to
make out his case and denied the de-
cree. Later, because Of some mistake
in the trial. Judge York reconsldered
the case and allowed Hunecke to file
petition for a new trial. The new hear
ing was granted, and yesterday
Hunecke and his attorneys appeared
before Judge Walter Bordwell In de-
partment Of the superior court and
asked that the case be set for the new
trial. So Tuesday morning Hunecke,
formerly a grocer and now a retired
merchant, will begin proceedings
against his wife, who incidentally is
alleged to have kept the affairs Of the
the fact that her quick wit of Hiber-
nian extraction craved excitement
when Hunecke preferred quiet game
o fpinochle.
Mrs. Hunecke's temper is the chief
cause of action in the petition of
divorce. and many interesting Incidents
about that temper were testi ed to at
the last hearing of the case.
The couple were married twenty-five
years ago and up until a few years
past managed to live happily together.
suited when Mrs. Hunecke accused her
husband of having a preference for a
rather stout German woman.
Objects to Song
They quarreled and Hunecke alleges
his wife threw a basket of groceries at
him on one occasion when she caught
him conversing with the alleged object
Of his affections.
The most amusing incident of the
case, however, is alleged by Hunecke
to have occurred last summer while
they were residing in neat home in
Santa Monica.
The incident was given at the former
trial in an attempt to prove that Mrs.
Hunecke had been of belligerent char
acter while living with her husband.
On the night in question Hunecke
stated some of his friends, who had
been spending the evening in Santa
Monica, began to wend their way home
ward in the early hours of the MORN
ing. Failing to connect with the last
car, they attempted to walk to Los
Angeles. When they reached the HUI
necke home they decided that since the
moon was shining brightly and the
weather nice they might as we'll spend
the remainder of the night on the front
door step~of the Hunecke house. They
proceeded to fix themselves comfort
ably, and all would have been well had
not one of the young mon bethought
himself of a song of "Moll and Meg
and things unmeet for ladies, and he
proceeded to sing 1t in a quavering and
high-toned tenor.
"She had teeth in l.er head like big
iron wedges" carolled the youth in ex-
plotting the loveliness OF his friend,
and then all the crowd finished the
verse with
I'VE won't go home until morning"
About that time, according to the al
Legations of Hunecke, his wife, in a
passion, went softly to the window and
locating the exact position of the
singers did with aforethought spill,
pour and dash one bucket Of waste
water and garbage upon the heads of
the singers with disastrous results.
Hunecke now contends that such act
was unworthy of a woman, and he
claims his feelings were injured be-
cause of the insult to his friends.
The large property interests will have
to be divided by the court.