The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-03-10
HUDBYL0sT WEIGHT
AS RESULT OF HIS
W|FE'S kAGG|NG
TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS TAKEN
OFF IN FEW MONTHS, HE TELLS
DIVORCE JUpeE-oTHER TALES
OF WOE.

why did you visit the marrying
parson, Mr. Hind?'
Because my people did not approve
of my choice, and I wished TO keep
the marriage a secret for while
The question was put by Judge Muir
phy. Monday afternoon, to Mrs. Carr.
line Hammer, who was seeking d.
vorce from her husband, Henry l..
Mrs. Hammer, daughter Of Conrad
Koppitz, the brewer, was a cashier
with Summerfield e. Hecht, when she
and the man she married, with an
other couple, who are now Mr.. and
Mrs. Rhodes. visited Sandwich and
participated in double wedding.
Mrs. Hammer said taat her husband
earned SIS per week driving a bread
wagon. but she never saw any OF bis
money. She continued to work and
kept the house. Finally ill-health con-
PEELED Mrs. Hammer 10 give up her po-
eition, and she had to go home, as her
husband refused to support her. Mrs.
Hammer was promised decree.
David Haupt. a foreman for tho
American Cigar company, testified
that the actions of his wife. Ida, sc
worried him that he was reduced from
157 pounds at the dime OF his mar
riage In December. 1906. to 1872 pounds
by the next August. David said mis-
wife would wake him up In the night
TO scold and nag. Her principal grie'-
ance was, sthe husband testified, that
life in Detroit wasn't worth living. She
wanted to go back to her old home IN
New York. She ran away several
times but her people always brought
her back, and once ner father wanted
to whip her, so David told the Judge,
but he wouldn't allow that. He was
promised a decree.
This Marriage Not Made in Heaven.
THE devil must have been In mo
when married you
John Blomski. youth or %. sai1
his wife made this cheerful announce
ment to him after they had been mar
ried but a few weeks. The final
break came when his wife brought her
family into the house tpr the young
husband to support.
II told her / didn't marry the whole
family. and IL they didn't leave
would" hubby testified
He left, and Judge Murphy evident.
ly thought he was Justified, as no
promised a decree in go days.
Barbara Mueller said that her hus-
band, John, left Germany six years
ago to make home for her in Amer
lea. He settled in Ann Arbor. She
followed two years later, and when
she reached tie university town found
that John had taken another wife.
with whom he Is now living In Detroit.
She will be given decree IN the usual
time
Kate Kortbas testified that her hus-
band, William, left bor in 1895. after
living with her for five years. Shc
followed him to Buffalo. and found
him, she testified. keeping company"
with the daughter Of his landiady. The
wife spent n week In the same house,
but she said her husband refused TO
speak to her, and continued to pay his
respects to the young woman. Mrs,
Korthas had TO borrow money to got
back to Detroit. Decree in 80 days.
Wife Had Another Beau.
Ed. M. Strock, who asked for a Ill
vorce from his wife, Grace, to whom
he was married IL Grand Rapids in
1900. was assisted by his aged father
The old man said that he once saw
Grace's arms twined lovingly around
the neck OF a locomotive engineer. Ed.
will get his decree.
Adolph Benedict testified that his
wife, Luella, left him, and that the
last he heard Of her. sce was in Flor
ida with a travelling man.
Ann Snow told of her desertion by
John p. Snow. He left, she said, be
cause she wouldn't Les.d her property
to him.
Ernest Knoptazky asked that his
marriage to Elizabeth Knopatzky he
annulled on the ground that his wife
was insane when he married her IL
years ago. Ernest admitted that ne
didn't discover any signs Of insanity
until he had lived with her for 10
years. The wife is low in an asylum.
The Judge was not satisfied and held
the case open for moro testimony.