The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-12
COURTS PR0B|NG
PUTS QU|ETUS
ON DIVORCE
MRS. cORWiN'S CHANCES FOR
DECREE GO oLIMMERlN0 uN-
DER JUDGES oUIZzING-coL-
LEeE ROMANCE SHATTERED.

Like one OF those stories Of the Per
sian cadi who used to scout around
between court sessions and then as
tonish the pleaders by knowing al
the facts In the case was the surprise
which Judge Alfred J. Murphy sprans
Monday afternoon during the divorce
session. But, unlike the oriental
Judge Murphy would not explain now
he got his facts.
Mrs. Catherine ii. Corwin, oe
mure-appearing. middle-aged woman
OF rather attractive appearance. had
finished telling the court about tine
sins OF Thomas Corwin, real estate
speculator in Seattle. He had sent
her home to Berlin. Ont. for visit
she said. but never sent her money. tc
get back TO Seattle and she had &c
come to Detroit to work as house
keeper. Also. no had another girl. SAID
the wife.
Where do you liver" inquired the
court.
AT. No. 81 Champlain-st." hesitated
Mrs. Corwin.
rs 1t a respectable placer" came
the repeated inquiry Of the court, and
finally Mrs. Corwin admitted that l,
might not be quite a conventional
household.
do you know a man named John
Clarkson?"
With evident embarrassment Mrs
Corwin admitted that she did, and
then the court pulled out other admis
sions-that she had gone to road
house with GARRISON, that she had re
ceived a number Of calls from him
even after she knew that he was
married man with children.
"You need not call any more wit
nesses, the case Is dismissed" said
Judge Murphy and Mrs. Corwin wan
dered out Of the court room still won
dering just how II had all happened
Men were plaintiffs In three cases.
Willoughby G. Tackabury, hand
some travelling salesman. said that
Edna, his wife, had been given to cor
responding with other men, even when
they lived In Milan soon after their
marriage, and that she had grown cold
toward him after they moved here To
a fat at No. 243 Lysander-st. One
Sunday the telephone rang IA times
while he was at home and he became
suspicious. Next day instead OF 60
ing out of town he got Roy w. Holmes
to help him watch Edna, and the two
saw her Join a gay automobile party
which visited two saloons. spending
over two hours in one. Pursuing In
another automobile, Tackabury saw
his wife embracing another man
Other testimony was introduced 20
show that Mrs. Tackabury came home
at all hours except early ones. when
her husband was out Of town. he
Gets a decree and she Is forbidden 10
marry for year.
RAYMOND l.. c. Arnold. a boy ol
"a. said that he had married a grass
widow either seven or eleven years
his senior In Port Huron two years
ago. Her parents were worth $lOO,'
600 and she promised to buy him
drug store. Sarah, the wife, showed
herself to be forgetfui about the store,
however. and II developed In Few
months that she had knack at strong
language. Also she tried to keep mp
two homes on Raymond's salary OF
S1450 per.
Raymond fed to Chicago. but his
wire followed anu they nlauO up uus
only temporarily. She kept his clothes
when they broke up again.
rs 1t in your present plaps to marry
again." inquired the court.
1T is not" said Arnold firmly. and
he got the same kind Of decree as
Tackabury.
A. university romance reached its
finale In the complaint OF Charles
Vaughn Jones. q mining engineer
against Laura May Jones. He came
back to Ann Arbor after graduation
to marry her, but went south to work
later. She joined him in Fremont. Ind.
after a time. and he then learned
from letters which he took away
from Laura May that she had been
having a gay time in Ann Arbor as
1.-The merry widow" Isaac Nelson
Miller, of New Carlisle. Ind, came into
the case through letters of his which
Jones found. Miller's letter In which
he claimed that his attentions to Mrs
Jones were paid in the belief that she
was single woman, was read.
Myrtle Radcliff, an Ann Arbor walt
ress, testified as to Mrs. Jones thirst
and her frequenting OF drinking places
Hattie Schemild. handsome little