The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-19
Interrupted HER
HUBBY's PARTY
Woman Arrived Home Unexpectedly
and Discovered Spouse and Brother
Entertaining Two Girls.

Mr.. Jennie Metz. stylishly dressed
and handsome. hut deaf and dumb. ties
tilted with the aid OF the sign Ian
euage in Judge Rohnert's court, SAT
urday morning, where she asked io'
= divorce from her husband, Charles
Metz. Her mother. Mrs. Mary Bates
acted as Interpreter
Mrs. Metz was married April 20
1902, 10 Charles Metz. and lived with
\ him only three weeks. AT the end oil
that time he left her. without reason
the wife alleged. Mrs. Bates. mothef
OF the plaintiff. testified that two
other daughters had married members
OF the Metz family. and were living
happily with their husbands.
II think this third daughter would
have lived happily. too. IL his mother
had let them alone. she said.
Mrs. Edith Gertrude Bell, another
applicant for a divorce, told how she
Interrupted party which her hus-
band, Edward Bell. machinist EN-
ployed by Dodge Bros. and his brother
and two girls were planning TO hold Ia
their fat They had just moved from
Port Huron, Mrs. Bell said, and her
husband 'phoned To her that he could
not have the fiat ready before Mon
day Mrs. Bell learned from another
source, she said. that the fiat was
ready, so without announcing herself,
she walked into the place Saturday
night There she found her husband,
with his brother and two girls, who
were preparing 10 spend Sunday there.
The party had laid In stock OF gro
ceries and plenty OF beer, the witness
said.
Mrs. Bell said her husband went
with other women continuously. and
boosted OF IL. She said he often told
her that his girl looked nicer in a 81
hat than she did in a $40 creation. He
got letters regularly from other wo-
men, Mrs Bell said. and often handed
them TO her to read. Finally these
other women took SO much OF her hus-
hands money that he was unable 10
support her, and she left him. She
was given a decree.
Blanche Eastin was a widow with
one child when she married James c.
Eastin. widower. who also had a
child. She said he agreed TO support
her child IL she would care for his.
and the bargain suited her. In less
than Ave months, her husband told her
he had bit OF more than he could
chew" and expressed the wish that
her child were in hell. Then he an
nounced that he would treat her so
meanly that she would be glad to get
out.
And did he?" the Judge asked.
'He certainly did" she replied. las
- L. Oh
to undergo an operation"
She was granted a decree.
Asked to choose between her AFFINITY
and her baby. Mrs. Mary Ehlert chose
the affinity, and dressed the baby for
her husband to take TO his home, so
August Ehlert testified. and he was
granted decree. Ehlert said he came
home earlier than usual one night AMI
looking through the window OF his
home at No. SIG McDougallave., saw
the coat and hat OF a nan named
shaw, with whom his wife had been
friendly. After Shaw left the house.
the witness said he went in and told
his wife he would forgive her IL she
would give up Shaw, otherwise he
would take the baby and leave. She re-
piled that she would never give up
Shaw.
IF every man whose wife plays
poker asked for a divorce the courts
would be over-crowded The best So
ciety women in Detroit play poker"
was Judge Rohnert's comment when
Arthur Woodbridge asked a divorce,
alleging that his wife Pauline. played
poker, and was a frequent visitor in
cafes, sometimes with other men.
We'll, she went beyond the limit,
Judge" the husband stated
II suppose IL was for the usual pen
ny limit" the Judge added, and the
audience laughed.
He promised to consider the mat
ter.
Il washed every day for nine years
70 support myself and three children, g
testified Martha Burkhardt. and she
was granted a divorce from Charles
Burkhardt.
That her husband used horsewhip
on her. once threw her TO the floor by
the hair of her head, and frequently
struck her with his fist, was the COM
plant of Lottie Gaines, who asked for
divorce from John r. Gaines. A wit
ness testified to being in the Gaines
nome anu seeing the nuSOanu uraS
his wife down stairs.
And what did you do?" asked the
Judge.
II pounded him with a broom as
hard as | could" was the answer.
Another time, this witness saw
Gaines hit his wife with a bottle. Civ
ing her a black eye. Decree granted.
Other DEGREES granted were to
Cecil VS.. William A. Roosevelt. drunk
enness; Susie VS.. John Alexander.
drunkenness and cruelty; Minnie VS..
George Schrum, cruelty; Catherine vs..
Otto Putzig, cruelty; Mary VS.. Frank
Gulliford, non-support and desertion;
Elva VS. Ernest Ross, non-support
SPEAKER CANNON GOES
DOWN TO DEFEAT