The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-01-28
SAYS WIFE TRIED.
To BURN HIM
WITH ACID
st
BOY HUBBY HAS STRENUOUS
TIME WITH SPOUSE AND BUSHES
TO DIVORCE COURT FOR RES.
cuE-mANY TALES OF WOE.

The prize story at Mondays session
OF the divorce court was told by Ed
ward Godfrey, an over-grown youth
OF less than 81, who at the age OF 10
married his wife. Anna G.. on the day
that she procured a divorce from her
former husband. Edward paid for the
decree. he testified, and 1t cost him
$50.
She always passed TO me as a
single woman" Edward explained,
and when l found out she had a hus
band living she told me how mean he
had been to her. | thought 1t would
De al right for me to marry her, after
she got a divorce. Within three
weeks she got mad at me and tried to
hit me with a lighted lamp. At an
other time she tried TO burn me with
| carbolic acid, and both times I had
hard fight to prevent her carrying
out her plans. She used to get SO
mad that she would fall In a At, ana
then l would fill her mouth with salt.
That generally brought her to her
senses with yell. anc then | had to
carry water to her to wash the salt
from her mouth"
Edwards mother terrified that he
was a home-loving boy. and was un-
| used TO the ways CT women when he
married. He will get g. decree In 80
days, and Anna will be restrained
from marrying for two years.
Hubby Was Jealous.
Mrs. Gussie Leadbeater. q former
belle OF Worthwhile, testified that her
husband, Bert, was 80 jealous that for
days at a time she would not comb
her hair or put on cletan waist, oe-
cause when she did her husband al
ways accused her Of having been run
ming about.
why, he was so jealous, judge, that
he raised a row when l spoke to my
girl friends on the street." testified
the wife. He was jealous OF MY
sisters
Bert was averse to work, his wife
said, and during their married life her
mother supported both OF them. She
will get a decree In 80 days, and Bert
will not be allowed to make any other
woman miserable for two years.
William Carley, coachman and
chauffeur for Maxwell M Fisher, told
OF the midnight auto ride his wife
took with other men, and two friends
told OF ride they had taken with Mrs
Carley and another woman, which
ended up at Palmer park. At another
time Mrs. Carlev took a man to her
home. and introduced her husband as
q brother. Judge Murphy decided that
William was entitled to a decree.
I'm going away for the day, and
when return l don't want to find you
about the place."
This order was given by Magyi
Smith, to her husband, Benjamin, the
husband testified, and he obeyed to
the best OF his ability. Detective
Good testified that the woman Is now
living with a man AIMED Moss at No.
247 MichIgan.ave
Romance Of the Key Peters Out.
A romance OF the keys was describ-
ed by Susan Chapman, a pretty tele.
graph operator. Mrs. Chapman said
that she met her husband. Chauncey,
while both were operators In Detroit
telegraph Office. Tender messages
were flashed back and forth, and
marriage resulted. In O few months
the romance was shattered, and the
wife had to go back to the key to sup
port herself. Chauncey Is among the
missing. Decree In the usual time.
Barbar Pierce, an English woman.
told OF the labor she performed TO
support herself, and of the beatings
she endured at the hands of her aus
band. Henry, when she refused 10
turn her earnings over to him. She
will get decree.
Mrs. Bertha Bruhnes, who made an
unsuccessful effort to get a divorce
last week, produced q witness Monday
effect a reconciliation, but that Fred.
erick absolutely refused to live with
his wife. Under the circumstances
Judge Murphy decided that they might
as well be separated.
May r. Gersting, who would easily
pass as 30 years old, said she was
married in 1881, and had son III
years old. He'd husband, John H.,
had never properly supported her, she
said.
Mrs. Gersting now supports herself
by teaching music. A decree was
promised in the usual time.
Milton Reaume, who applied for a
divorce from MS wife, Anua, Ialled u
show up, and two friends testified that
they had seen her In cafes drinking
with other men. Milton will have TO
tell his own story before decree is
granted.
Peters Letter Never Came.
Margaret Cremer told Judge Dono-
van that her husband, Peter. left for
st. Louis In 1901. to look for work
and promised to send for her In few
months. The letter never came. and
now she wants a divorce. She Will
probably get IT.
Stories of non-support were told II:
the cases OF Eliza VS.. Charles Lozen,
Annie vs. Fred Boehm. Jessie VS..
Frank Clark and Alive VS.. Julius
Sonneville.
Edward A. Rendt testified thai Re
hadn't seen his wife. Mary. since she
ran away with an insurance agent is
years ago.
Adolph Stiller told the court that
his wife, Amelia, informed him that
che was tired OF men, and preferred