The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-12
COURTS PROBING
PUTS QU|ETUS
/ ON DIVORCE
MRS. coRWlN's CHANCES FOR
DECREE GO GlIMMERING UN-
DER JUDGE MURPHYs oUiZziNo
COLLEGE ROMANCE SHAT
TERED.

Like one OF those stories OF the Per
sian candi wIo used 10 scout around
. Letween court sessions and then as
tonish the pleaders by knowing all
me facts In the case was the surprise
which Judge Alfred J. Murphy sprang
-iouGay afternoon during the divorce
.ession. But unlile me oriental
Judge Murphy would not explain now
he got mis- facts.
Mrs. Catherine II. Corwin. ue-
mure-appearing. middle-aged woman
OF rather attractive appearance, had
nnished telling the court about the
sins OF Thomas Corwin, real estate
Spectator in Seattle. lie had sent
ner home to Berlin, Ont, for visit.
sns said, but never sent her money To
get back 10 Seattle and she had 10
come TO Detroit 10 work as house
Keeper. Also. he had another girl. said
tne wife.
Where do you like" inquired the
court.
AT No. 81 Champlain-st." hesitated
Mrs. 'Corwn.
lis It. respectable place." came
The repeated inquiry OF the court, and
finally Mrs. Corwin admitted that II
might not be quite a conventional
household
DO you know man named John
Clarkson?"
With evident embarrassment Mrs.
Corwin admitted that she d did, and
then the court pulled out other admis-
sions--that she had gone to road
house with Clarkson, that she had re-
ceited q number OF calls from him,
even after she knew that he was a
married man with children.
You need not call any more wit
pesses. 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.
Wiloughby c. Tackabury, hand
some travelling salesman, said that
Edna, his wife, had been given TO cor
responding with other men, even when
tney lived In Milan soon after their
marriage, and that she had grown cold
toward him after they moved her II
i hat at No. 243 Lysander-st. one
Sunday the telephone rang II times
while he was at home and he became
suspicious Next day instead of go
ing out of town he got Roy w. Holmes
10 help him watch Edna. and the two
saw her join gay automobile party
which visited two saloons. spending
over two hours in one Pursuing III
another automobile, Tackabury saw
his wife embracing another man.
other testimony vas introduced 20
show that Mrs. Tackabury came home
III all hours except early ones, wheh
her husband was out or town. fe
sats decree and she is forbidden 10
marry for a year
RAYMOND l.. c. Arnold, boy OF
"a. said that he had married grass
widow either seven or eleven years
his senior In Port Huron two years
ago. Her parents were worth sloo'-
100 and shep romised to buy him a
drug store Sarah. the wife. showed
herself to be forgetfui about the store.
however. and IL developed In lew
months that she had a knack at strong
language. Also she tried to keep M
Two homes on Raymond's salary OF
s1450 per.
Raymond fed TO Chicago. but his
wife followed and they made up. but
only temporarily. She kept his clothes
when they broke up again.
AGAIN." inquired the court
1T is not" said Arnold firmly. and
he got the same kind OF decree as
Tackabury.
university romancer cached It's
finale in the complaint Of Charles
Vaughn Jones. a mining engineer,
against Laura Nav Jones. He came
back to Ann Arbor after graduation
10 mary her. but went south TO work
later. Letters which he took away
from Laura say that he had been
having a gay time In Ann Arbor ds
"the merry widow" Isaac Nelson
KILLER, of New Castle. Ind. came into
the case through letters of his which
Jones found. Miller's letter in which
lie claimed that his attentions TO Mrs
Jones were paid In the belief that she
was a single woman. was read.
Myrtle Radcliff. an Ann Arbor wair
ress, testified as TO Mrs. Jones thirst
and her frequenting of drinking places
Hattie Schemild. handsome little
brunette, testified that her husband
Charles. was a photographer. but that
she bad 10 do most OF the work about
the gallery. He was not good pro
WIDER and she finally returned to hei
mothers home and supported herself
by sewing. Her sister. Mrs. Bertha
O'Brien, testified to Schemild's keep
ing one promise.
He said he would strike her" said
the witness.
did he?" asked the court.
He did"
The wife gets decree and Charlie,
must not marry for two years.
Mary ". McKinnis was married Il
Ernest C.. May II last. In Windsor
Two days later he left TO get fin,