The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-01
SEEKING DIVORCE,
man IS JAILED
As PERJURER
Judge Murfn Orders Arrest in Court
Room of Paul Pawlak and Alleged
Sister-in-Law, and Grants De-
cree To Wife.
Court Will Ask Prosecuting Attorney
To Proceed Against Pair Locked
Up On Statutory Charge.

After some OF the most picturesque
and contradictory testimony ever
heard In the circuit court, Thursday
morning. Judge Murfin sent Paul Paw
lax and Anna Figal. otherwise known
as Anna Tamorra and said 10 be his
sister.in-law, TO jail for contempt OF
court. and granted q decree OF di-
vorce to Johanna Pawlak on cross
bill. The case presented some con-
tradictions that kept the court guess
ing long time.
Pawlak sought divorce on the
ground OF cruelty, saying his vile
had driven him from home in Cleve-
land. had pursued him, had him jail
ed in Passaic, N. j., and had con-
tinued her prosecutions in Detroit.
lie said that he had been obliged to
have her arrested for assault and bat
terry. Just as his case was going
nicely, Mrs. Pawlak's attorney asked
him some questions about the young
Figal woman, who sat in the back
part OF the room. Pawlak said that
she was Mrs. Pawlak's sister, that
she had boarded with them in Cleve-
land, and that by coincidence the
young woman and he had met in Pas
sale, n. J. and again in Detroit, where
he had been boarding with her at
No. 1861 Rivard-st. He declared that
the young woman had nothing to do
with his trouble with his wife.
Why did you leave your wife,"
asked Judge Murfin.
/, Il didn't leave her; she chased me
out said Pawlak. She was living
with other men. | have a police of
fcer here to tell how he found her
: with another man on Gilbert-st., De-
troit"
Don't you believe she loves YOU >"
Yes: she loves me: see how long
she had me I'm Jail In Pessaic."
special police officer said that he
had found Mrs. Pawlak eating peanuts
with q man In church shed ON Gil
Eert-st. one evening.
The alleged sister-in-law testified
through an interpreter. She surprised
the court by saying that she was not
! Mrs. Pawlak's sister, and that she had
never seen her till she went TO Cleve-
land.
MY father told me there was an
other girl in the family but he didn't
know whether she was my right sis
ter she finally admitted. II never
saw her iii went to Cleveland"
did you board with them there?''
the witness was asked.
No"
Didn't she drive you away becauseI
OF your relations with her husband ?''
NO; | left Cleveland because |
couldn't find work
How did you happen to meet Paw
lak In Passaic?" asked Mrs. Pawlak's
attorney.
Il just happened to-"
Didn't Mrs. Pawlak find you two to.
gelher there, and have Pawlak arrest,
ed?'
No"
How did you come to meet him in
Detroit?'
''Oh, just happened to. He was.
boarding In the same house. One day
that woman came to the house and
knocked | stepped out and she HIT
me with paving block. Then slea
tore my hair out, and crowd OF mes
took Paul and thrashed him and near-'
ly tore his clothes off. l don't know
what she did IL for
This testimony isSvery strange"
said Judge Murfn. after spending 10
minutes with the attorneys trying to
get some admission OF family rela-
tionship between the witness ana Mrs.
Pawlak.
There was no confusion in the tes-
timony Of Mrs. Pawlak. however.
my husband and | were married
in New York. and then moved to
Cleveland" she said. He did not
drink. asked him to send $40 TO
pay my sisters passage from Tho old
country. She stayed in our house,
and | would find him in her apart
ments. Once when I found them to-
.ether, | took 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
drink. Once he blackened my eyes
so that | did not like TO go on the
street for two months. My sister went
10 New York and he shipped his trunk
TO her there. He couldn't go for two
weeks because he couldn't get his
pay at the Standard Oil Cos plant.
went to New York TO hunt him up.
and his brother said | would hnd the
Two in Passaic. When | went Ito the
house, they were living together. He
threw hot water on me and turned me
out, and she laughed. | had HIM ar
rested. but after he got out Of jail,
couldn'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
church together My sister said she
didn't know me, and asked me what
was trying 10 do with her husband
Then we had some trouble, and IL
ended In police court.
Are you willing to go back to your
husband" asked her attorney.
IF he viii go TO the church and
swear before the priest that he will
behave himself" was the answer.
Are YOU willing that he should
have a divorce?"
n am IL he will give me $500 that
he took away from me in Cleveland"
An acquaintance was produced TO
show that Mrs Pawlak and the other
woman actually we're sisters. but IL
developed that he had left Russia be-
fore the younger woman was born.
, John Jazinski. with whom Mrs. Paw
lax boarded, gave some damaging