Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-21
FIVE DIVORCES
Granted By Judge Gsger in inc
 Superior Court To-Day.

To the accompaniment of NO Wedding Bells for Me" on the circus steam caliope, the divorce mill ground Out five decrees this fore noon. Judge Gager presided.
 The first to take the stand was Mrs Mary I. Douglas She stated that she married James Douglas in Scotland in October, 1876, and about October 1, 1888, Douglas de- serted her in Waterbury and left the country for Scotland. Douglas was we'll known in the fire department and was prominent member of Phoenix Hose company of the volun- teer firemen. Mrs Douglas told of certain acts of her husband and that frequently he struck her, turned her out doors and in general way made life as miserable as 1t would well be for her.
 Mrs Nellie Lowell, wife of Walter N. Lowell, superintendent of the Waterbury Brass Co, testified she knew Mrs Douglas thirty-six years and lived near her for some time, and she often heard Mrs Douglas cry out. In her opinion Douglas was a noisy, drunken fellow. This petition was granted without any hesitation Angelo Perugini sought divorce from Marie Perugini on the ground of assertion. Mrs Perugini was a widow when she married the plain- tiff. All went well with them for some time, but one day Perugini got home to find that his wife and her son had left town, taking with them every cent he had in the world, $1,000. He traced them to Boston and induced them to return, but the reconciliation was only temporary. He said she is now living in New Haven with another man. This pe- tition was granted also.
 The name of the next case on the docket etawas Etta A. Reynolds against Earl L. Reynolds. Mrs Reynolds had trouble with her name from the start. She said it was Luetta. This was singular, because people looking for divorces are supposed to give their correct names to their counsel in order that they may be properly recorded in the files of the court. Judge Gager seemed as though he could not understand how this error occurred, but after considering a ! while permitted the complaint to be corrected and then the case went on.
 Mrs Reynolds had about started to tell of her tribulations when the great steam caliope of the circus struck up No Wedding Bells for Me" She said she was married on August 4, 1900, and on January 21, l.04, her husband left for parts -un- known. Too much mother-in-law seemed to be the trouble in this case. The couple lived with the defend ants mother, but all the time the plaintiff was trying to get her Nhus- band to start housekeeping on their own hook. But he refused and he was backed up by his mother. Mrs Reynolds worked for the New Eng land Watch Go. A month after Rey- holds. had gone away he wrote his wife to join him in Long Island. She was preparing to do so when she heard he had left there. When he went he took $75 with him and in duced his wife to sign over to him a life insurance policy which he had taken out in her favor. She could not account for his going away. He said he was going to get rent and away he started, and that was the last seen of him. Mrs Reynolds was granted a decree and her maiden name, Ashborn, was restored to her The troubles of Sarah Kelly Baer and her husband, Alexander, were caused, according to the wife's story, by her husbands bad temper He earned $20 and more sometimes. He was boss plumber for the Chase Roll ing Mills Co and whenever anything went wrong with him at the shop he would work off his anger by throwing his wife about the house, knocking her down and threatening her. The Baers lived in the brick building corner of West Main and North Willow streets. The climax of .Baer's cruelty was reached one day last July when he threw his wife down, pulled her from one room to another, threw her onto table and raised a flatiron with which to finish her." when his mother-in-law appeared on the scene and. saved her daughter. This petition was also granted and the question of alimony for the support of little boy who was playing about the court room. will come up later.
 Mrs Laura NJ. Beakes was the de- fendant in the next suit and Bred erick NJ. Beakes, drummer. was the plaintiff. Beakes lives here as much as he does in New Haven. His wife is a singer with the Fritzi Scheff opera company and prefers to live in New York rather than with her husband in New Haven or Wa terbury. Last July she came to New Haven and demanded $50 from her husband to pay a doctors bill and other debts. But she didn't get a cent. Beakes's sister. Laura Beakes, and his brother, Albert Louis Beakes. testified for him, and he was given a decree.
 The last case tried Ves that of Eva Intas against Klemens Intas. Desertion and infidelity were alleged. Mary Doe. a resident of Chicago. was the alleged correspondent. Decision was reservpd fin this ease and courf