The Detroit times., 1910-09-02
|Zk|Ge DIVORCE,
MN IS JAILED
IS PERJURER
)o1ge Murhn Orders Arrest in Court
loom Of Paul Pawlak and Alleged
6ister-in-Law, and Grants De-
cree To Wife.
Court Will Ask Prosecuting Attorney
TO Proceed Against Pair Locked
Up On Statutory Charge.

N After some of the most picturesque
Ind contradictory testimony ever
Iheard In the circuit court, Thursday
morning, Judge Muffin sent Paul Paw
)ak and Anna Figal, otherwise known
he Anna Tamorra and said 10 be his
eister-in-law, TO jail for contempt OF
court, aEG granted decree of d.
Gorce to Johanna Pawlak on cross
Pill. The case presented some con-
4radictions that kept the court guess
y ing a long time.
Pawlak sought a divorce on the
eround OF cruelty, saying his wife
had driven him from home in Cleve-
land. had pursued him, had him Jail
xed In Passaic, N. j.. and had con
ftinued her prosecutions in Detroit
lie said that he had been obliged to
have her arrested for assault and bat
Xfery Just as his case was going
4 nicely, Mrs. Pawlak's attorney asked
him some questions about the young
tIffgal woman, who sat in the back
Part OF the room. Pawlak said that
Iehe was Mrs. Pawlak's sister, that
kohe had boarded with them in Cleve-
Hand, and that by coincidence the
|young woman and he had met in Pas
IDaic, N. j. and again In Detroit, where
HE had been boarding with her at
! mo. 1861 Rivard-st He declared that
1.-THE young woman had nothing to do
with his trouble with his wife.
Why did you leave your wife?"
asked Judge Murfin.
II didn't leave her: she chased me
Out, said Pawlak. she was living
with other men. | have police Of
5cer here to tell how he found her
with another man on Gilbert-st., De-
1rcit''
Don't you believe she loves you?"
Yes; she loves me; see how long
ehe had me In Jail In Passaic."
special police officer said that he
had found Mrs. Pawlak eating peanuts
with man in church shed on Gil
n bert-st one evening.
The alleged sister-in-iaw testified
through an interpreter. She surprised
the court by saying that she was not
X1frs. Pawlak's sister. and that she had
never seen her till she went to Cleve-
1and.
my father told me there was an
e0fher girl in the family, but he didn't
n know whether she was my right Sis
n ter she finally admitted. Il never
4 &aw her I'LL went TO Cleveland"
u Did you board with them there"
"a me witiiess was asked
mo"
Didn't she drive you away because
fpf your relations with her husband?"
4 mo; left Cleveland because /
a couldn't find work.
. How did you happen to meet Paw
4 INK In Passaic?" asked Mrs. Pawlak's
4 attOrney.
\ III just happened to-"
/ Didn't MIS-. Pawlak find you two to-
4 kether there. and have Pawlak arrest
\ >ed?''
mo-"
f'How did you come to meet him in
i Detroit?'
'Oh, Just happened to. He was
Il boarding in the same house. One day
that woman came TO the house and
4 Knocked. I stepped out and she hit
4 me with paving block. Then she
Il tore my hair out, and crowd OF men
4 took Paul and thrashed him and near
~ tore his clothes on l don't know
4 what she did 1t for
n This testimony is very strange"
n said Judge Murfin, after spending Is
4. minutes with the attorneys trying to
NJ get some admission of family rela-
uonship between the witness and Mrs.
III Pawlak
There was no confusion in the tes-
timony OF Mrs. Pawlak, however.
my husband and | were married
IS In New York. and then moved to
81 cleveland" she said. HE did not
drink. | asked him to send $40 to
pay my sisters passage from the old
country. She stayed in our house,
81 and | would find him in her apart
n ments. Once when | found them to-
-gether, took a club and hit her in
the face, and him on the forehead.
and turned her out of the house.
Then she went to board In a saloon,
and he commenced to stay there and
h drink. Once he blackened my eyes
n so that ] did not like TO go on the
street for two months. My sister went
TO New York and he shipped his trunk
q to her there. He couldn't go for two
weeks because he couldn't get his
pay at the Standard Oil Cos plant. 7
went to New York to hunt MIN up
a and his brother said | would find tho
two In Passaic When l went to the
house. they were living together He
threw hot water on me and turned ne
out. and she laughed. I had him ar
rested but after he got out OF Jail,
I couidn't find him. | went back to
Cleveland, and after two years some
one told me they were in Detroit.
came here and watched at church for
three weeks till saw them going to
8 church together. My sister said she
didn't know me, and asked me what
1 was trying TO do with her husband
Thea VIC had some trouble, and 1t
ended IN police court
Are you willing to go back TO your
Y hueband?" esked her attorney.
III he VIII go 10 the church and
swear before the priest that he will
behave himself" was the answer.
"Are you willing that he should
have a divorce?"
II am IL he will give me 5000 that
rs ne took away from me In Cleveland
An acquaintance was produced 10
show that Mrs Pawlak ard the other
woman actually were sisters. but II
developed that no had left Russia be
fore the younger, woman vas born
John Jazinsld, with whom Mrs. Paw
lax boarded. gave some damaging
b fe6timony against the wife. but Judge
4 11urfn cut him short.
Mr.. Deputy Sheriff, take that inar