The Detroit times., 1908-02-18
LAYS HER WOES TO
M0THER-IN-LAW,
A BkbY-HATER
MRS. HAYNES SAYS SHE WAS
CONTINUALLY NAGGED AFTER
CHILD WAS soRN-sEvERAL o.
voRcE DEGREES PROMISED.

Plain stories OF desertion and nor-
support we're told by seven women 20
Judge Donovan at the regular weekly
divorce session Monday afternoon,
and In every instance where the case
was filed in proper time decree was
promised.
Mrs. Stella Haynes. wife OF Harry
Haynes, foreman of the printing dc
partment at Berry Bros. Co. testified
that her husbands mother was baby
hater, and when a babe came TO their
home her life was made miserable.
her mother-in-law ordering her to go
upstairs, with instructions to keep
the baby there. The husband sided
with hts mother, Mrs Haynes said,
and gave her most OF mis- wages. De-
cree promised.
Charlotte McEwan saida that her
husband. James. not only refused to
workout lived on her earnings for
several years. and then broke open
her trunk with an ak. took the money
she had saved by keeping boarders,
and deserted her. James Is now Nv
ing in Detroit with another woman,
Mrs. McEwan testified. Although the
case had been started only two
months ago Judge Donovan forgot his
rule which he enforces against certain
lawyers not to grant a decree until
the case has been in court for Six
months. and promised decree mt
once. The case was handled by Pros
ecuting Attorney Yerkes.
The most stylish applicant of the
afternoon was May Grekorfch, Mrs.
Grekorich's beautifully-fitting coat
was the envy OF all the ladies' when
she tripped to the stand. She said
that her husband, John W., to whom
she was married in 1901, drove her
from the house with his cruelty his
vile talk and his threats. Judge Dono-
van remembered his six-months rule
In this case, and Mrs. Grekorich Will
have to wait three months Tor de-
cree.
Anna Tessmer asked for separate
maintenance from her husband, JOS
eph. who. she testified, had "promis-
ed" to poison her. He also beat her
severely, she said. and once paid
$25 fine for assaulting her. Joseph
was also a poor provider, she said, and
lived off her earnings as a cigarmaker
Mrs. Tessmer will be allowed to live
apart from her husband, and he Will
be compelled to pay 81 a week toward
her support.
Anna M. Hutchinson said that she
last heard from her husband, William,
when he was in Alberta. Canada. dodg-
ing the Northwest mounted police.
william went weet to take up a home
stead, his wife said, but ne never
wrote to her, and her letters to him
were never opened.
was your husband a sober man."
inquired Judge Donovan.
Sometimes" answered the wife In
nocently.
Inez Lowrie asked for a divorce
of desertion. Elizabeth Molnar made
the same charge against her husband.
Anton, to whom she was married In
Budapest, Hungary. DEGREES Were
promised both women.
Belle I. Amsden asked for divorce
a month ago, but while on the stand
became SO confused that she forgot
her testimony. She was in court again
Monday when she told tale of cruel
ty and neglect. She said that when
her babe was born about year ago,
her husband was notified that she and
the baby would die. He failed TO
show up for several days. and the
baby was then dead and buried. He
disappeared in a couple OF days and
she has not seen him since. A decree
was promised her.