The San Francisco call., 1909-10-09
BLIND MAN WANTS
DIVORCE ANNULLFD
Husband Alleges Wife Secured
Decree by Trickery and Mak=
ing False Charges

Max Cohen, who is totally blind,
tells story of trickery and deception.
by means of which he asserts Annie
Cohen got a divorce from him with
out his knowledge. IN his complaint
filed yesterday Cohen says that when
he learned of the divorce he remon-
strated with his wife, and her answer
was that she got tired of caring for
a blind man."
Cohen, became blind in May 1907.
In November. 1905, he was living with
his wife at 1891 sixteenth street, sick
from the sorrow and worry caused by
his blindness. when a man entered his
room and served him with a paper-the
summons in the divorce case-which
the visitor refused to read. Cohen
handed it to his Wife and asked her
TO read il. having no suspicion of her.
She told him it was nothing he need
bother about, that she would give the
matter her immediate attention and
that he must trust his wife.
Mrs Cohen. with the aid of her
father. B. Clarified is said to- have
induced Cohen TO go TO Boston, where
his sister lives, but his sister did not
want him and he came back to this
city last June. Friends then informed
him of the divorce, which Mrs. Cohen
the ground of cruelty. All her alie-
cations of cruelty were false, Cohen
says. and he wants the divorce set
aside.
FIGHTER GIVEN FREEDOM
Jimmie" Lawlor. retired prize fight
er, who once fought a notable battle
with Willis Britt. confded to Judge
Cabaniss yesterday that love of auto
mobiles had drawn his wife from him
AT least once week she took Joy
ride with one of her men friends,
testified Lawlor. When I wanted
breakfast cooked next morning she
was always sick" The former prize
fighter said further that when he ex-
postuIated with his wife about staying
out late at night she insulted him in
the presence of friends. Judge Ca
baniss granted a divorce.
WEAK WOMAN BEATEN
Mary c. Ulmer, who says she is frail
and weak and afflicted with hip dis
ease as a result of which one leg is
! four inches shorter than the other
complained in suit for divorce begun
yesterday against Rudolph c. Timer
that her husband. a large and powerful
man weighing 200 pounds, viciously
beats and slaps her with his oper
/ hand. She states she is in mortal fear
Of Timer.
Alleging that she was Incompetent
! bv reason of intoxication' to enter into
! a marriage Drusciila NJ. Cochrane filed
4 suit yesterday against William w
/ Cochrane to annul their marriage. The
iiweeding took place August %. 1909
4 at Redwood City, after night of auto
mobile riding.
1GIRL,s MARRIAGE TANNULLED
The marriage Of Florence Diamond
and Charles Edmund Diamond was an
nuIled by Judge Cabaniss yesterday
on the petition of the wife because
she was only 16 years OF age at tht
time
Henry G. Clinton. stock broker. who
4 has been sued by his wife, Dora q
/ Clinton. for $3.50 a MONTH separate
maintenance was ordered by Judg'
Trout yesterday TO pay her @s25
month.
suits for divorce were begun yester
day by:
Mary Madden against Patrick W
Louise Meyer against John ". +
! Meyer willful neglect
Margaret Petit against Vincent J
Petit, willful neglect , :,
Nellie V. Carey against Charles q
Carey. wflful neglect.
5 Marie Lefebvre against Alphonse lie
! febvre, cruelty.
Caroline Bertha Doran against Ed
| ward James Doran, desertion.
/ William c. McLachlan against Eliza
beth Hill McLachlan, desertion
Robert Barker against katherln
/ Barker, desertion.
Katie Zorn against Charles X. Zorn
E.desertion. -.
terson, willful neglect.