The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-02
FREE SELVES FROM
HUBB|ES WHO DO
JAIL TERMS
Wives Of Lee Hagle, Oxford Bank
wrecker, and Herbert McIllwain,
Port Huron Bigamist, Are
Granted Divorces.
Mrs.. A. 8. Brown, Against Whose
Spouse Serious Charge Is Pending,
Also Draws Decree.

Three well-known men whose acts
brought them considerable notoriety
during the past two or three years,
We're divorced by their wives in Judge
Colds court. Saturday.
The first of these was Mark Leroy
Hagle, better known as Lee Hagle.
the Oxford and Metamora bank
wrecker. now serving time in Jackson
prison. The other swo we're Allan s.
Brown, Detroit attorney. indicted.
Saturday, by the federal grand jury
on a charge OF bringing woman
into the United States. for immoral
purposes. and Herbert McIllwain, son
Of Judge McIllwain, OF Port Huron.
who served a sentence for bigamy.
Mrs. Hagle. a sweet-appearing and
decidedly pretty woman. testiiied 10
her husbands career as a hnancier.
and presented to the court certih-
cate showing that he Is now serving
a sentence In Jackson for forgery.
Mrs. Brown, who now makes her
home with her parents at No. 2l5
Twenty.fourth-stfif testified that her
husband deserted her Oct. IL, 1910,
going to Toledo in company with Miss
clara Stevens OF Windsor. From
there he went to Minneapolis; where
he was arrested. Mrs. Brown said
her husband wrote to her that he
would not return as he preferred to
live with the other woman. Brown Is
now out on bail, and the Stevens girl
Is under bonds to appear against him
as witness.
Mrs. McIllwain, who before her
marriage was Miss Florence Morri-
son. Is woman OF fine appearance.
Her marriage TO the son OF the Port
Huron jurist followed an elopement,
the ceremony being performed in
Windsor In 1904. They lived happily
for few years, but on May 80, 1908,
while visiting In New York, Mrs. Nc
ulwain said her husband deserted
her, going to Canton, Ohio, where he
married another girl. For that he
was arrested, and upon conviction
served a term OF six months In jail.
Upon his release he was re-arrested,
found guilty OF perjury and sentenced
20 three years. but was soon paroled.
That abe was forced to attend the
funeral OF her baby, while both her
eyes were black as result OF her
husbands cruelty toward her, was
he testimony OF Ida Pearl Lampman,
who was granted a divorce from Ed
ward I,ampman,, an, auto trimmer
These beatings were not the result
81 Quarrels." Mrs, Lampman said. My
husband told me that he would strike
me In the face with his fist. Once
when was Ill two OF his prize roos-
tiers got TO fighting and hurt each
other. When he came home from
work he gave me an awful whipping
for not stopping them, and then drop
ped me of the verandah. A neighbor
had to carry me into the house"
Mrs. Lizzie Lorenz testified that
her husband, John c. LorenZ. was
once sober hor two whole weeks. She
also said that John had playful habit
OF fooling with his revolver when
drunk and once came near shooting
her. Several times she had had TO
call In a policeman to disarm him, she
said
That her husband, William W..
Walker, a bartender, took their little
girl into the saloon TO recite for the
loungers was one OF the charges made
by Mrs. Sadie Walker. now matron
of the Belle Isle bath house, She was
given decree on the grounds OF
non-support.
Other DEGREES granted were Agnes
vs.. Joseph Movinski, non-support;
John vs.. Katherine Millson, deser-
ton: Daisy VS.. Charles Conway, de-
sertion; Lucille vs.. Albert 'Ploeger,
desertion and non-support; Joseph vs.
Caroline Leuths, desertionI Cora VS..
Albert j. Sedgwick. habitual drunken
hess: Charles VS.. Harriet Nuthall, de-
sertion; George vs.. Elizabeth Coutts,
desertion; Eliza VS.. j. Jerome Packer,
desertion; Myrtle VS.. William l..
French, non-support; Elise vs.. Au-
gust VanEeanene, desertion; Agnes
vs., John Schmidt. non-support; Yetta
vs.. Max Berney, non-support; Bertha
vs.. Andrew Conrad. cruelty, and Mary
vs.. Steve Novack, drunkenness.