The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-17

ONE MANS TROUBLES
HE IS A MEMBER OF THE NAVY
YARD BAND.
Fred 6eVersee, Trombone Player, Or
J. dered to Pay $36 Month Ali
mony When He Makes
but $32.

New York. - Frederick Beversee,
who plays the trombone in the navy
yard band, is trying to figure out a
plan by which he can pay his wife
$36 month alimony out of a total in
come of $32 a month. All the mathe-
maticians in the navy yard and in his
lawyers Office have failed to get any
satisfactory answer to this hard prob
lem, but Beversee must have an an
swer
II Beversee doesn't pay his wife 81
month more than he earns he will be
in contempt of court and some hard
hearted judge may lock him up In
little room so small he will not be
able to slide his trombone.
Beversee has been ordered TO APP
pear in special term over in New York
county and explain why he has failed
10 pay the $36 month for the last
two months, and also to explain why
he shouldn't be adjudged in contempt
of court and locked up in some hot
jail for the summer.
Lawyer George Hiram Mann, who
has a big practice among the people
attached to the navy, will be in court
TO help Beversee explain, and, also
to make the court sec the injustice OF
demanding alimony in greater amount
than Beversee can earn. Beversee Is
able to prove that his present cash in
come is only SS2 a month, which he
gets from the government for playing
the trombone twice a day. In addi
tlon to this he gets place to sleep
and daily ration.
Some of Beversees friends have
suggested that he raise the extra four
dollars by selling his ration; but that
would leave him without anything to
eat, and, besides, he might run up
against some hard regulation against
disposing of a ration allowance.
Beversee's wife is suing him for
separation The two lived together
quite happily until two or three years
ago. They have been living apart for
a year. Their son, who is a seaman
10 years old, made an affidavit a year
ago, in which he took sides with his
mother, and alleges that his papa was
a very bad man in his treatment of
Mrs Beversee. Now, Mr.. Mann is
armed with a new AFFIDAVIT from young
Beyersee which tells of the splendid
qualities of his father. with whom he
Is now stopping. In his new affidavit
young Beversee throws some light on
the effect of beer and hot weather
upon afiidavit making; in fact, he
makes it appear that the combination
of lager and high temperature caused
him TO make the former afldavit, He
says that after drinking beer all day
in hot weather his mothehr induced
him to so with her to her lawyers
office in the Pulitzer building and
swear TO allegations which he now
declares to be untrue.
After Mrs Beversees suit had got
under way the court ordered her hus'
band to pay her S36 a month. Bey'
ersee was able to pay the amount
at that time, as he was playing at
night with big uptown orchestra
IN addition to his employment in the
Navy Yard band He is a musician
of high class, and he says that he
would be able to get employment out
side now but for the meddling of his
wife. He paid the $36 month up to
eight weeks ago, when he found II
impossible to pay that amount out
of his navy pay.
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