The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19

home drunk nearly every night for
week She recalled a time when he
was. sober for three months at a
stretch, then qualified the statement
by saying that he was not intoxicated
to any great extent during this pc
Rod, and while that condition lasted
they got along fairly well.
My husband has violent temper"
she said. but when he will leave
liquor alone / can live with him."
you are opposed to the drinking
OF liquor by anyone. are you not?"
queried Mr.. Murtha.
Yes, am" was the reply.
you and your husband have had
many arguments about that, haven't
you?"
yes"
Mrs. Teagan told Of an occasion
when abe had company from North
vile, q woman friend and her chill
dren. They were living at No. ia
Fourteenth-ave.
Supper time came and my husband
was not on hand" she related "The
children were calling for him, so
went up The alley and found him In
Morey's saloon, drinking with Mrs.
Morey. / asked him to come home
with me and he stepped around to
the front Of the bar, threw down a
dollar and ordered another drink.
/ :" II you give him another drink, 1t
will be the dearest one you ever
served told Mr. Morey.
Then you'll have to go to every
saloon in Detroit Mrs. Morey broke
In.
| well, then I'll begin here re-
piled. I again asked my husband to
come home with me, but he called me
kid and asked me TO go along and
not create scene there went
home and he came little later.
Once Mrs Teagan was entertaining
a number of women from one Of the
gymnasium classes In the Y. W. c. A
and a picture OF the Judge was acci
dentally broken by one of the ladies'
The next morning, she said, her hus
band was furious about II and &C
cused her of holding the picture w
for the ladies to kick at. When she
mentioned the Y. w. c. A, Attorney
Murtha jumped up in surprise and de
manded to know what connection
John B, Teagan had with the Y. w. G.
A.
His only connection was through
his wife,, Mrs. Teagan replied very
quietly.
Mrs. Ella Jordan, who was a neigh
Dor OF the Teagans' when they lived
In the Lyle apartments, No. 43C
Trumbull-ave., and who made the
dress Teagan had refused to pay for
corroborated Mrs. Teagan's testimony
as to the bathtub incident, declarins
that Bhe had heard him call on hii
wife for help. She also told of hav
Ing seem him lying intoxicated on the
noor Of his apartments. When she
presented the bill for the dress Il
him, shortly after the separation, Tea
gan had told her that he "wouldn'
pay damn cent OF t." she said. HI
came to her house to tell her that
Later she went to the justice court, Il
appeal to his honor as a gentleman
and explain that the bill was con
tracted while he and his wife were
still living together. But again h,
declared that be would never pay Il
damn cent of IT," the witness testified
Mrs. Ella Blair, who had been
neighbor OF the Teagans on Four
teenth-avc., swore that on numerous
occasions she had seen the Judge com,
home staggering drunk, and hat
heard him call his wife the viles
names imaginable.
} "Once. while | was sitting in m,
summer pavilion, heard him tell he
sne was unfit for decent society" sal,
tho witness. He cursed her mothe
and father. damned her brother an,
his wife and then damned Mrs. Teaga,
and her little niece. He wound up b,
saying: Go home, damn you, and TAX
all that's here. I'm willing to give
TO you TO get rid OF you
This occurred about two years be
fore the final separation.
The morning OF the picture episode
the witness said, she heard him swear
ing. In Mrs. Blafr's opinion, Teaga
was an habitual/ drunkard.
/ Mrs. Cora Mcdonald, who lived mex
door to the Tsagans for nine year
on Fourteenth-ave., said she had see
the Judge so drunk that he fell agains
the porch railing while trying to M
lock- his door.
The trial was resumed ut 1:S
lo'clock, following the noon recess.