The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-05
MODEL HUSBAND
CHANGES TO BRUTE
r. c. Schnell's Infatuation With
Tailoress Broke Up Home, Wife
Says-Dr. Bowers Gets Decree.


Saturday, in h0 case OF Mary vs. aoo.
eu G.. Schnel
SeFnell was !ur many years a FORE
nIn ~ j. c. Hane's "a ,or shop. mis-
wife testified. o1d was o model nus
baE1. Then ne beeanI4 infatuated
with Ida Irenau. tailoiels employed
in tue same AhOD. and from that time
war q charged man. Mrs Schnell
said he was on: every nigh: until mid
light or after. and, II sh. questioned
him.. OF reoueeted him 10 remain Ut
hoIae night. he would by into q rage
call her vile names and strike her
Once he attempted 10 Kill her. she
declared. She said he would have sue.
ceeded in his attempt, but for the
protection given her by her son The
son, young man OF fine appearance,
| told OF struggle he had. TO prevent
| his father killing his mother with a
razor.
The wife was granted decree.
The ENLIGHTENMENT of William Eppe
in 1907 was recalled Saturday. when
his wife. Rose. pretty little woman,
asked for decree on the grounds OF
desertion. She said she had not seen
her husband since June 2, 1907, when
he fed from the city with funds be-
longing to his employer, Alexander
Gordon. the cigar manufacturer. De-
cree granted.
DR. William D. Bowers, OF Ecorse,
was granted a decree from his wife,
Catherine, after he told of her in
fatuation for Fred Marie a neigh
Dor. She said she told him once she
loved Marie and would stick to him.
A witness told OF passing the Bowers
home one night, when he saw Marie
beside the house talking with Mrs.
Bowers. who had her head out or 4
window. young son OF the doctor by
his first wife said he saw his step
mother and Marie embracing and
kissing in the back yard when he
went out for coal.
James Wiltsey. a white-haired resi-
dent OF Worthwhile, was granted a de-
cree on the grounds Of desertion. He
was called away from town on bust
ness one day, he said, and when he
returned he found the house had been
stripped Of all the furniture, and the
chicken coop OF chickens. Mrs.
Wiltsey. who now resides on Third
ave, Detroit. sent word TO him since.
he said. that she was satisfied with
the change she had made, and would
not return.
That her husband was a confirmed
drunkard and had been arrested FOR
drunkenness, was the testimony OF
Jeania Hollington. who was granted
divorce from Arthur Hollington
former employe OF the Regal Motor
Co. and more recently with the Hupp
Mobile Co. She said he seldom came
home before midnight, and then was
usually intoxicated He came home
i'm that condition when her baby was
but a few days old. Mrs. Hollington
said. and created such a disturbance,
that she suffered a relapse and for
several days was near death.
The fact that her husband, Leonard
Webber. was convicted of forgery and
sent to the Detroit House of Correc-
ton for five years. won divorce for
Cecilia Weber.
Annities we're blamed by Ernest
Burden and John +. DeGroat for inc
breaking up of their home. Burden
was living in Worthwhile when Charles
Kellar butted in. he said and soon MS
wife. Emma. left him. She and kellar
are now living together IN Detroit, IL
was testified DeGroat blamed George
Holmes for his troubles He SAID he
had his wife, Barbara, and Holmes ar
rested, and on her promise to be
good" the case against her was
dropped, but Holmes was given 30
days. DEGREES were granted in both
cases.
ether divorces granted were in the
cases of John VS. Josepha Kovaril,
desertion; Ethel NJ. VS.. Charles Coon
rod. cruelty of revolving nature;
and Alberta vs.. John Thompson, non
support.
A novel request was made to Judge
Rohnert by Mrs. Minnie Phillips
through her attorney. George B. Green
ing Mrs. Phillips was granted legal
divorce from her husband, Morris, sew
erai months ago, and IL was agreed
between the parties that In case the
wife accept 81 500 alimony her hus-
band was 10 allow her 10 obtain n
Jewish divorce also. AS the matter
now stands the husband can re-marry.
but the wife cannot, according TO the
church law. Now, Mrs Phillips
charges, her husband refuses 10 permit
her 10 get a church divorce, and she
says he has been haunting her on the
fact that he can remarry and she can
not. Mrs. Phillips came into court
Saturday and asked that her husband
be compelled 10 carry OFT his agree
ment and permit her 70 get q jewish
divorce, or increase the aimony 70
$500 cash.
Owing 70 the novelty OF the request
the Judge was undecided what 10 do.
md took the matter under considera.
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