The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-23
DIVORCE COURT
SETS new RECORD
Judge Donovan Grants Thirteen De-
crees in Hour and Half-Usual
Tales Of Woe Told.

Judge Donovan handled Saturday q
divorce session without assistance. and
In an hour and 35 minutes granted 10
DEGREES, which is almost record Tor
speed. His honor was In especial good
humor, too, and every applicant went
away with the assurance that de-
cree would be signed as soon as pre-
scented.
Ada May White. the handsome head
waitress In the Hotel Brunswick,
charged that her husband. Cecii
White, formerly Detroit real estate
salesman, didn't support her during
the two years they lived together. he
! is now in Toronto, his former home, 1t
was testified.
Mrs. Willie H. Isbell. a tall, hand'
some southern woman with deilgnt-
full accent. charged her husband, VII
liam G. Isbell. with non-support. she
said she knew he had $4,000. In adoi-
ton to a real estate and auto pusi-
ness, but he refused to support ner,
and once when she went to visit at
her home In Tennessee her brother
had to pay her way back to Detroit.
Helen Van Driesen, a school teacher
from Worthwhile, and a member OF one
OF the prominent families in that town,
started to tell OF her experience OF
three weeks as the wife Of Robert h.
Van Driesen, when Judge Donovan IN
terrupted her with the question:
What happened at that timer
my money gave out" she said.
Mrs. Van Driesen said that her hus-
band took her TO Grand Rapids ard
placed her In a cheap boarding house,
where her experience brought on ner'
vous prostration. When she refused
TO pay his board any longer he left.
The wife was but Is at the time OF the
marriage In 1909, which was per-
formed by Justice Lemkie.
A middle-aged and talkative private
detective was the real hero OF the case
OF Verne Teachout, matchmaker at
No. 81 Michigan-ave.. against his wife,
Belle. When the husband became sus-
picious Of his wife's conduct he hired
the detective to watch her, and the
sleuth was called to the stand to tell
what he had seen.
1T was Just like this, you know,
Judge. | puts myself outside the house
and follers her. She went to No. Al
Bagley-ave. You know where that IS,
lt is the house that Is now torn down.
"Yes. | know where 1t was" the
judge assented.
well. she goes in there. Says TO
myself, III see more OF this thing so
I went in and pretended wanted to
rent a room | chinned with the peo-
pie for a time and in comes man
and him and Mrs. Teachout engaged a
room"
The detectives evidence insures the
husband a decree"
The sensitive nature of Clara May
Kossuch made ii impossible for her to
live happily with Herman Kossuch,
she said. Herman had the disagree
able habit OF telling her every day OF
his other sweethearts, and, OCCASION
ally. he told her that he married her
tn get out of a scrape. Then Herman
drank considerably, II was testified. o
sister OF the plaintiff saying she never
saw him sober.
Ella Jolliffe testified that her hus-
band, George s., conducted a candy
and cigar store at Fourteenth and
Michigan-aves., which became SO no.
torious that the police closed him out.
He started In business again on
Adams-ave., and was again interrupt
ed by the officers. She said he drank
and gambled and harbored tough
characters. He was also unpleasant
in his home life, she said, frequently
cursing and striking her.
A witness in the case Of William
against Della Caughill told how one
of Dellas admirers smuggled her out
OF the window while her husband was
asleep. Della had at least four ad.
mirers, the husband said.
Bertha jenkins said she worked and
supported Ellsworth Jenkins while ne
drank and took morphine. but she left
him after waking up suddenly one
night to find him standing over her
with butcher knife.
DEGREES we're granted to Lola vs..
John Ferrill, non-support and deser-
ton: Christiana VS.. William c. Mer.
bach. non-support; Carl VS.. Jennie
Kendrick, desertion; Sarah vs.. Albert
Fountain, drunkenness.
Judge Murphy handed down orders,
Saturday, directing the payment OF
alimony to wives In the following
cases:
Mary VS.. William Schermer. IS per
week; Jennie VS.. John Campbell, 81
per week; Fred VS.. Pearl Steece. 81
per week: Bruno VS.. Pearl Zialinski,
SIS per week, and Carrie VS.. Reuben
English, $3.50 per week
A new divorce case was fled Satur.
day by Fred J. d. Chanter against his
Carah