The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-10
BUNCH OF HUBB|ES
TELL SAD TALES OF
DRUNKEN WIVES
ONE so sousEp SHE WENT TO
BED WEARING SHOES AND HAT
SEXES SPLIT EVENLY IN o.
voRcE COURT.


+ Judge Rohnert was not sure that Mrs.
& Annie j. Mccoy had proven resi-
4 dence In Detroit.
Mrs. Mccoy comes from Hamilton,
4 Ont, where her husband, Edward
had q fine position as a traveller. Ed
ward got TO drinking and lost his JOB.
He then came TO Detroit TO open a
Z bucket shop. His wife gave him ST.
q 900 10 start, but the business was
n failure on account OF Edwards drink
q Ing habits, and the money soon dis
appeared Edward managed 10 make
numerous touches until his wife
4 fortune OF $4,000 was gone. and then
= n she went home to her relatives IN
dear old Hamilton.
HE became SO supplied with
s liquor" Mrs. Mccoy said, that every
4 4 time he sat down he fell asleep. and
IA Il was almost impossible TO awaken
him. Once when had two ladies from
Hamilton visiting me he came home
u with four companions, all drunk.
was SO sumiliated that | was i'll al
night. Then once in my sisters home
4 be went 10 sleep In his chair and fell
h TO the floor. The fall caused a bruise
on his head and he accused me OF
4 Kicking him. He bought liquor and
n Il charged II TO me. He also bought me
Z / presents and charged them 10 me and
n 10 my sister, and we had 10 pay the
81 bills"
4 Hubby Followed the ponies.
Louise Coddington. a pretty woman
told of her efforts TO support herself
by running confectionery store
while her husband, Harry H.. follow
Z ed the ponies. Harry was never sue
Y cessful in picking winners, SO his wife
81 said, and was always broke. The con-
fectionery business didn't pan out
very well, either, so Mrs. Coddington
took a position in Woodward-ave,
! store. o Last April Harry disappeared
and his present whereabouts are un'
known.
Moses Bass said that he often came
b home from work and found his wife.
h Ollie M. too drunk TO get his meal.
| This sort of thing continued from 1899
until 1904, when Ollie disappeared.
HE kissed me goodbye, gave me
p $50, and promised 10 write often,
Y Elena Lewis said OF her husband. Ell
mer T.. lake fireman. Elmer forgot
4 his promises and his wife has not
IS heard of him from that day 10 this,
almost six years.
II saw in a paper that he had jump
ed overheard from a boat at New
York. but | wrote TO the captain and
ne said he never had a man OF that
name on his boat" the wife testified.
Plain stories OF desertion and non
support were told by Sarah A. VS..
Dana L. Hubbard. and Mary VS.. AL
mond PAUL. The Paulls were mar
n ried in 1884, and son % years old
was witness against his father
Religion Causes Split.
"I'll tell you, judge. she was Cath
Ollie and he was a Protestant and her
I. people always told her she was living
q in sin as long as she was with him.
3 80 she cleared out" was what wit
$ ness testified to in the case OF Charles
Ia. against Julia Wagner. Charles
didn't say anything about the differ
n ences I'm religion. He said the trouble
was that his wife was drunk when
s. aver she could get liquor. He said
she was drunk the greater part Of the
time from 1901. when they were mar
jried. until one day in 1907, when he
Game home from work and found
the house empty.
sf One of the most thrilling descrip-
lions OF a fight between husband and
i wife was that given by John Schroe-
= der.
II went over to see my people one
h day and came home a little late and
found my wife kneading dough" he
said. II knew from the way she
punched the dough she was mad, so
went up to her and put my arm about
NJ her neck. With that she struck me
II IN the face with a big wsd Of dough
lost my balance and went over on
the stove, breaking It. Then she
threw a loaf OF bread at me, striking
n me on the chest. That was followed
B by another loaf and then dish. but
Eli lodged the dish, which crashed
against the wall and broke. Judge
n Hosmer promised John that his dodg-
ing days were over.
| James Miller. gardener for Il
Crosse Pointe home. told of losing his
Job because bis wife, Jennie, couldn' {
do her share OF the work as she was
drunk fnoet Of the time.
M Clyde Lamk.n a Brush line conduc.
|i tor, said that his wife. Eva, whom he
l married In 1006. came home SO drunk
N that she went to bed without Tem0v'
q ing ner shoes or Merry Widow hat.
Charles Waske will get a decree on
the grounds OF desertion. He said
n his wife deserted him seven years ago
y leaving him with six children de Is a
Blacksmith employed by Lindemanr
q Sons.
II got on my knees and begged her
70 return 10 me-" Thomas Joyce ties
tilted, "but she only laughed at me.
His wife was then an inmate OF Z
Cksherine-st. resort. the husband said
q Rtrung drink was the cause Of hel
downfall.
The most pitiful case OF the after
~ neen was that OF Mrs Elizabeth No
e wax, a Polish woman OF 81. and th'
m mother OF 10 children. the eldest II
wears, and, the youngest eight months
Mrs. Nowak said she was compelle'
70 leave her children at home witt
no one 10 look after them while SIN
x scrubbed and washed. She said he
husband, big strong man, refuses
f 20 work. and told her that was wha
q he got her for. Several neiglfbors AZ
reared to help the poor woman and s,
excited did one OF them become tina
she went up TO the bench to plea'
with Judge Rohnert for the woman.
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Suicide is Identified.
The man who committed suicide b,
drinking carbolic acid on the side
walk at Baker and Twelfth-sts., Mon
day morning. was identified Monda,
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