The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
HERR|NGTON CALLS
"23' ON WIFE.
Stops Her Carousals, but
She Disappears Under
Spell of the Numbers
DIVORCE GRANTED

Drunkenness of long standing that
resulted in an all-night carousal with
former friend, the affair concluding
with a smashed buggy, was response
bic for the divorce that Charles II.
Harrington yesterday obtained from
his wife, Clara Crow Harrington, the
daughter of prominent resident of
San Mateo County. Judge Hebbard
granted the decree after hearing the
testimony of the husband. The wife
made no appearance in court and was
evidently contented to let the case go
by default.
1t was literally a case of "23r for
Mrs. Harrington. So said her husband
on the witness stand. Just that num-
Der of time he stood for her revels
and then he told her to quit.
It's '23' for you on the drinks" he
said to her.
She not only quit. but incidentally,
as he said, packed off all of her own
belongings and most of Herring gton's.
Its 90 for me for good was the
message she sent her husband vixen
she returned TO her fathers home.
This is the story that Harrington
unfolded to Judge Hebbard from the
witness stand: I'VE We're married in
1904. One week after I was married 1
went home and found my wife drunk.
asked her family about it, but they
did not seem to mind 1t very much,
although they asked me to keep IL
quor locked up, SO that she could not
get hold of it. The next week she was
drunk and she kept it up.
This summer we went over to San
Anselmo 10 live I told my wife that 1
wanted her TO stay sober. as / had a
good many friends there. l told her
she could drink when l was with her.
but l wanted her to leave the stuff
alone when l could not look out for
her. But 1t was of no use. Two drinks.
and she was up in the air.
RIDE ENDS IN sMAsH-UP.
"A short time ago after l had been
to the city l returned and found her
drunk again. l told her she must
promise never to take another drink
She left the house and, as | afterwarG
learned. hired d rig at the stable. The
next morning the stableman came to
the house and inquired about the rig
1t was the first l mad heard about it,
The livery stable man teiephoned to
Ross Valley and found that the rig
had been smashed. We found out also
that she had gone riding with George
Christ, a man she was well acquainted
with.
The last year and half she has
not done a bit of housework She
suppose she has gone to her folks.
WIFE THROWS A FRYINGPAN.
Human endurance can stand much,
but when it comes TO wife who beats
her husband about as if he were a
small boy, calls him a loafer and SHES
a fryingpan or beer mug at him, then
ii is time to call halt. That is what
H. e. Morton says in his divorce com
plant filed yesterday in the Superior
Court While Morton did not object so
strenuously to being called loafer. it
was not easy to dodge a dishpan
thrown with the unerring aim OF a
housewife.
The complaint reeites that the Nor
tons became husband and wife on
March 25, 1894. Their trouble seems
to have been of recent origin, for Nor
ton recites that in February Mrs
Morton struck him, called him names
and informed him that she no longer
cared for his company. He was not
thus TO be driven from the family
roof, but when the torrent of abuse
changed into free-for-all throwing
match, with himself as the receiving
end of the battery, he took to shelter.
BEATS HIS MOTHER-IN-LAw.
Gustaf Rausch not only struck his
wife, but his mother-in-law as we'll
according to the testimony heard yes
terday. Judge Graham criticised the
absent spouse for his cruelty and
granted Mrs. Eta Rausch a divorce.
Mrs. Rausch says that. although her
husband is a carpenter, drawing down
his $3.50 a day. she is obliged to live
in a tent as a refugee.
Judge Trout granted a divorce yes
terday to Michael Sucedo from Mamie
Sucedo on the ground Of desertion.
Ida NJ. Cole commenced suit yester-
day for a divorce from Milton A Cole,
alleging desertion. She asks to be
permitted to use her maiden name, Ida
Ely.