The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-05-30
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William L. Benner Wins Divorce
With sleuth's Testimony = Ada
Sherman Had Other Lovers, Too.

A private detective from O'Neils
agency proved a star witness In the
divorce case OF William l.. benner
against his wife. Margaret Leonard
Benner. In Judge Murphys court
Saturday morning.
Having reason to suspect that MS
wife was friendly with other men, Mr..
Benner engaged a detective TO watch
her. The latter told OF following the
woman one night down Gratiot-ave'
to Randolph. down Randolph to Mon
roe, TO Woodward. to Gratiat. and
then round and round this circuit Tor
two hours. During that time she
talked with Ave men, and one or them
accompanied her to hotel OF ques-
tionable reputation. Leaving the hotel
she met another man and went 10
house on Mechanic-st.
Mr. Benner was granted a decree
and the wife will be restrained from
remarrying for one year.
Edward Sherman made his second
appearance In divorce court, Satur-
day. and was again successful In get
ting a decree. He complained that his
second wife, Ada. To whom he was
married In Windsor, six years ago.
when he was 32 and she IL. had other
admirers. whose affection she recipro-
Gated. He handed over to the judge
bunch OF lurid post cards, which he
said he had intercepted at different
times. They were all addressed TO
Mrs. sherman. On most OF them she
was addressed as Dearest Ada" and
sweet messages of love adorned the
part reserved for writing Then there
was a letter In which a man who
signed himself +. A. s. urged her to
leave her husband and fly away with
him to some distant cline.
Annie Louise Wilkinson was having
smooth sailing In her effort for de-
cree, when her husband, John II. VIII
kinson, entered the court room. He
took the stand and testified that since
his wife filed her bill they had lived
together. and stated that IL her peo-
pie let them alone they would get
along happily. He displayed pair
of cuff links which he said his wife
gave him recently. Mrs. Wilkinson
was recalled to the stand and denied
his testimony. Judge Murphy said he
didn't believe the husbands testimony
ground of non-support.
That his wife had Ats. was the
ground on which Frederick w. Jabs
asked for an annulment OF his mar
riage to Hedwig Baker-Jabs. Mrs.
Jabs' fits were not OF the harmless
variety, her husband said. He testi-
fed that during these spells she tore
around the house. screaming and
chasing him. sometimes armed with
a knife, and, occasionally, throwing
dishes at him. This would continue
until she was exhausted. then she
would fall in a heap and have to be
carried to bed. Jabs was unable to
prove to the courts satisfaction that
she had these fits before he married
her, so he refused to annul the mar
riage. but he gave the husband a
divorce.
Luella Andrews was granted a d.
vorce from 1rew ]. Andrews, who was
lazy and shiftless." she said. She
was visibly affected when she related
how her husband had stolen their
child four years ago, and taken II with
him to his home In New Hampshire.
She had tried unsuccessfully, she said,
to get the child back.
DEGREES were also granted to Muse
P. vs.. John B. Marcombe. non-support,
George H9 VS.. Ada Mosher, desertion;
Peter VS.. Elizabeth Sos. desertion /;
Victoria VS.. James F. Schweier, deser.
ton; Emma VS.. John II. Rose, non.
support; Lafayette vs.. Emma Apple,
ford, desertion; Ross vs. Rose Dadado
desertion; Alamia VS.. John Dragosch
drunkenness; Beatrice VS.. Bertranl
Bingham, cruelty, and Mabel I. vs.
Harry A. Fox, cruelty and neglect.