The San Francisco call., 1909-09-02
WILL PLACE BRAKE
ON DIVORCE Mill
Judge Mogan to Correct Idea
That Decree May Be Had
for the Asking
Reconciles Young Couple Seek
ing Separation and Delivers
Them a Lecture

"The idea is too prevalent that a
divorce may be had for the asking
for my part intend henceforth to in
sist upon the strictest proof IN all
cases and to refuse DEGREES unless it
is established beyond the shadow of a
doubt that the complaining party is
entitled to the relief asked said
Judge Mogan yesterday to Inez Hay
ward. young woman who was seek
! ing divorce from James Hayward,
foreman in liquor store.
Mrs Hayward complained that her
husband occasionally became intoxi-
Gated and that on one occasion when
she was entertaining women he did not
approve of he fired a pistol shot
through the floor of an adjoining room
to emphasize his objection. This
seemed to the judge rather slim justi-
fication for the breaking of the mar
riage tie, and he asked Hayward
about it,
1T is: true l fred the shot through
the floor, said Hayward, and it was
because 1 objected to my wife's asso-
ciating with several divorced women
she had in the house. ! admit, too, that
| get drunk once in a while, but love
my wife She is the finest little girl
in the world. Her father and my
father are great friends back in Miami,
Fla, where we were married in Feb
ruary, 1907, and l would hate to lose
her. Since she filed the suit 1 have
not been able to see her, owing to the
interference of neighbors.'
Judge Mogan thereupon adjourned
court, took the young couple into his
chambers, gave them a heart to heart
talk, left them together and told them
TO knock on the door when they had
decided what they were going to do
! ol, 1aec fNa r11ir
rap was heard on the inside of the
door and Hayward and his wife came
out arm in arm.
I'VE have decided to accept your
advice and start in anew" said the
wife The case was dismissed from
the court calendar.
Exact dates of her husbands various
acts of cruelty, running back over 20
years, have been preserved by Refine
A. Mason, and she has incorporated
them in her divorce complaint, filed
yesterday. Mason lives in New Zea-
| land, and his wife says she was forced
TO leave him there in March, 1896, be-
cause of his conduct.
Ruth A. Lewis, who is suing John B.
Lewis, an employe of the city treasury,
for divorce on the ground of desertion.
filed an affidavit in the superior court
yesterday. charging her husband with
! having fraudulently conveyed to his
sister, Elizabeth Kelly, valuable realty
in Bryant, Utah and Beach streets in
order to prevent Mrs. Lewis from re-
covering from him adequate alimony
/ for the support of herself and child
/ Since the transfer Lewis has claimed
/ that he has nothing except his salary
| from the city and has allowed his wife
! but $40 a month. Mrs. Lewis asks the
court to decree. that She and her hus-
band are the owners of the realty in
community.
Divorces were granted yesterday as
| follows:
BY Judge Conley-George w. Wag-
ner from Ida Frances Wagner, cruelty;
| Richard A Schwab from Mary V.
| Schwab, cruelty.
BY Judge Cabaniss-Marian F. Cud-
worth from Arthur N. Cudworth, de-
sertion; Ada Hughes from Beverly
Hughes, infdelity. Alice Nusser being
named as correspondent; Frederick
Radtke from Clara Radtke, desertion
! Suits for divorce were filed yester-
day by:
Martha Moormeister against Edward
| Moormeister desertion.
Annie l., Mund against Frederick C.
Mund, cruelty.