The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-28
BlDS' WEDDING
] IN DIVORCE COURT
0irl-Wife Says Hubby's Only Job
Was Walking Streets-0thers
Tell Tales of Woe.

The disastrous results OF child
X marriage were told In Judge Murphy 8
court, Wednesday. by pretty Edna
Barnard, who asked for divorce from
E Charles w. Barnard.
Edna and Charles were little moro
than children. she being but IL and
he Is years OF age when they eloped
10 Sarnia and were married. Charles
took his bride To the home OF his par
ents To live, but after three months
Papa Barnard turned them out, II is
eaid. After that Edpa's parents SUP
a pliel the bread and butter for few
. months. Then Charles became am
bilious, found a home for his wife and
atarted out to make a living FOR her.
He worked one day. then quit his JoD
and resumed the only position, Mrs.
Barnard said. he ever mad, that or
walking the streets. Every few days
:. Edna went home for a meal when the
pangs CT hunger gnawed unpleasant
". After that sort OF life had con.
h tinued for almost two years, Mrs
Barnard returned TO her parents and
Charles 10 his.
A divorce was granted and Charles
will DE restrained from marrying again
for two years.
The house If correction had no
terrors for Dennis Cummings. Judging
K from the testimony OF his wife, Eliza
beth. She said that after Dennis had
been discharged from the works,
where he vas sent for being drunk.
he thanked up" on the way home. tore
down the telephone as soon as he en-
tered the door. and then proceeded
TO play rough house" She said ne
ripped down the curtains, kicked the
electric lights - smithereens, upset
the ch2irs and tables, ending his Ut
tie celebration Of his return TO lib
erty with throwing her outdoors. She
was granted decree and Dennis Will
not he permitted 10 take another wire
for two years.
Just how william Schaffer muster
ell up courage TO pop the question 10
Edna F.. Schaffer il is hard a ngure
nut. He was sc backward In court
that ne insisted on whispering his tes-
timony until Judge Murphy threaten
Y ed 70 throw his case out or court.
Even then Williams testimony was
hard to hear. He claimed that his
wife had been guilty of indiscretions,
going SO far as To register in sag
inaw hotel with a man named smith
as man and wife Later this same
Smith came TO board with them III
Detroit. and several times when the
husband came home from his work
on the ID. u. K. at an early hour IN
the morning he saw his wife slipping
from the boarder's apartments. de
cree was granted and the wife VIII
be restrained from marrying Tor TWO
years. -,
Il wouldn't live with her again II
she was the last woman ON earth,
was Ezra Leohne's answer TO Judge
Murphy when the court asked Ezra
II he couldn't forget the differences
with his wife and return 10 her for the
children's sake. Failing as peace
maker the Judge granted divorce.
coupling with il the provision that
Ezra pay 81 per week toward the sup
port of the children.
Leohne testified that his wife was
of a nagging, quarrelsome disposition,
and started a fight almost every time
he went home. He said she woult
work herself into fury for the most
trivial reason and shrek at him until
she aroused the neighborhood.
"Once when | was late she met me
with loaded shot gun" he testified.
Before she had time to shoot me
took ii away from her, and then she
found a revolver, but again | was too
quick for her.
HE beat me, pinched me. drew
razor across my throat, put loaded
revolver IA my face and threatened
TO kill me-" was the list OF cruelties
enumerated by Grace Van Cleaf. who
became the wife of Clayton Van Clear
when she was but 16. She said her
husband had always appeared TO be
steadily employed before she married
him, but shortly after the marriage he
gave up his Job and acted as though
she should support him. She did for
several months by working In laun-
\ dry.
Would he remove any flesh when
he bit your" Judge Murphy inquired
mo. Just raise a big black and
blue spot" she answered
She got decree.
That her husband was drunk a great
deal more than he was sober, was
the testimony of Mary ~ Callaghan.
who in 1891 became the wife of David
Callaghan In Toronto. Once he chok
ed her into unconsciousness while in
toxicated, causing an illness which
kept her In a hospital for five weeks
A decree was granted.
Mabel Summers admitted that she
divorced her first husband and mar
ried j. ID. Summers. but the expert
ment was not happy one. She said
i ID drank until yellow bull dogs
chased him about his bedroom on sew
eral occasions. Once he struggled SO
violently to escape the dogs that he
dislocated his foot. She gets de-
cree.
Other DEGREES granted were Clara
from John s. Hubbard, non-support,
and Mary Frances Nestor from Thorn
as Nestor. desertion.