The San Francisco call., 1907-06-20
HUSBAND GOES out TO
TAKE A SMOKE AND
NEVER COMES BACK
Mrs. Eva Turner Tells a
Strange Story to Procure
a Divorce
TOO MANY CHILDREN
Mrs. Hernina Kaufman
Says "Her" Offspring and
His" Abuse Theirs"
TOO MANY CHILDREN

Two years ago my husband went out
10 take a smoke. he must be smoking
yet, because he has never come back
Mrs. Eva Turner spoke those words
yesterday in Judge Mogan's court while
giving testimony in support of her suit
for a divorce from c. w. Turner, who
before he left home was clerk in a
store. The Turner's were married six
years ago and lived together until
April. 1905. Besides granting Mrs. Tur-
ner an interlocutory decree Of divorce
on the ground of desertion, Judge Mo
gan awarded her the custody of three
minor children.
In the same court Mrs. Olive Johnson,
wife OF ". Johnson. a mining expert,
told of her husbands economy of words.
Soon after their marriage in 1894, she
said, he formed the habit of remaining
silent three weeks out of every month.
The fourth week he would dole out
words at the average rate Of one a
day Aside from refusing to speak to
his wife, he offended her by staying
away from home for weeks at time.
Mrs. Johnson's testimony won her an
interloeutory decree of divorce on the
ground OF cruelty, and she was given
the custody of two children, a boy and
a girl.
Judge Mogan also granted an inter
locutory decree Of divorce to Mrs. Her
nina Kaufman. who had proved
charges of long continued cruelty
against Alfred Kaufman, her second
husband. Kaufman had a habit of
blaekening his wife's eyes whenever
anything worried him, she said. Once
he stabbed her and served six months
in fail for his crime. I.aufmann in con-
testing the suit for divorce accused his
wife Of striking hiIn with a fiatiron.
Three pieces Of land were awarded to
the other subject TO a lien for 5000 in
favor of the husband Part of the
troubles Of the kaufmanns was due to
the conflicting claims Of three sets OF
children. He had two children by a
former wife and she had two by
former husband. Their marriage was
blessed by another set of two. When
all the youngsters got together Mrs.
Kaufman sometimes had to appeal to
her husband in words about as follows:
Hurry out into the yard. Your chill
dren and my children are abusing our
childreni"
Mrs. Mollie wflmot, wife Of George
Wilmot, formerly lessee of the Lang
ham hotel bar. appealed to Judge Mu-
rasky yesterday for $3.50 a month ali
mony and was granted $50. In her affi-
davit in support Of her suit for alimony
without divorce she credited him with
having received $4,000 for the sale of
his bar business and accused him of
buying an automobile and wagering
large sums on the races. In reply he
nled an afidavit admitting the charge
Of gambling. The $4,000 was all gone.
he sverred, and he had sold his auto
mobile and was depending upon an in
come Of $1,000 a. year from his sisters
estate. Judge Murasky concluded that
under the circumstances it was only
fair TO cut down Mrs. Wilmot's demand
tVo-thirds.
A decree annulling the marriage of
Carrie N Rhodes and John NJ. Rhodes
was granted by Judge Murasky. Prior
to the wedding Rhodes had been con-
fined in an insane asylum, but con-
cealed this fact from his bride Six
months after the marriage his mental
condition caused an investigation, and
the truth was revealed. He is now an
inmate of the state hospital for the in
sane at Agnew.