The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-10-26
MANY WOULD GUT MARRIAGE TIE
Ali Sorts and Conditions of Men and
Women Bring Their Troubles into
the Circuit Court With Women in the
Majority as the Defendants.

All records for divorce cases in Re
nosha county were broken today when
|seven suits demanding divorce of Keno
sha county people were filed with the
clerk of the circuit court and these
added to three suits filed earlier in the
week makes total of ten for the week.
It is noticeable fact that in the more
than half the actions for divorce the
wife is named as the defendant
The first case on record is that of
August Kraft against Amalia Kraft and
this is TO break a married life Of nearly
twenty years The couple were married
in Kenosha, Oct. 81, 1892 and the hus-
band charges continued cruelty Of such
nature that his health has been I'M
dermined. He declares in his complaint
that he is willing to allow the wife
the custody Of the three minor children
and that he will deed to her all the
property owned by him.
Catherine Miller. asks divorce from
her husband, Alexander Paul Miller, af-
ter married life Of little over a
year. She charges that she contracted
loathsome disease from her husband
and thai after she had been taken i'll
her husband deserted her and is now
living in California.
Sap lel Walchli asks legal separation
from his wife, Elizabeth Walchli, on
charges of desertion. This couple was
married at Hurley in 1891 and the hus-
band alleges that his wife deserted him
in August 1909 and is now supposed
to be living some where in Europe.
There were no children as result of
this union.
Joseph X. Sinyard in a sensational
bill for divorce accuses his wife of in
fidelity. The couple were married at
Milwaukee in 1904 and the husband
alleges that in 1908, ten months after
the birth of their own child, his wife
deserted him and is now living life
of shame some place unknown to him.
He asks that the court award to him
the custody of the little girl who he
has nurtured since the abandonment by
her mother.
Helen Prunty asks divorce from her
husband, James w. Prunty, on charges
of bigamy. She alleges that they were
married in Milwaukee Nov. 10, 1908,
and that shortly after her marriage her
husband abandoned her and that at
Belleville, Ill, he was married to Anna
Fisher Taylor. She asserts that he was
arrested on a charge of bigamy and
sentenced to a term of three years i'm
prisoned and was actually imprisoned
in the state prison at Joliet for this
term. She confesses that at present
she does not know the whereabouts of
her husband or the wife he married in
the Illinois city.
John Schnidt in seeking divorce
from his wife, Anna Schmidt, declares
that his wife committed a serious sta
tutory offense with one Frank Nemez
at divers places in the city of Kenosha
and that when her infdelity was dis
covered she took her three children
and fed with Nemez and that the two
are now lining with the children in
Hungary. This couple was married in
Hungary in 1902 and lived happily in
Kenosha for several years before the
appearance of Nemez.
In the last of the long series of cases
Helen Windsor demands divorce from
her husband, Charles Windsor, to whom
she was married in Kenosha in April
of this year. The woman alleges that
the husband has failed to provide for
her and that he has been given to in
temperance and that they separated
three months after their marriage on
account of his actions.
All of the cases are expected to come
up for trial at the March term of the
circuit court and these will make the
term of the court very similar to a
court of domestic relations. Divorce
cases have grown greatly in number
during the year in Kenosha and it is
certain that the report for the year
will show much larger number than
in any former year.