The Detroit times., 1911-05-18
TEAGAN DRUNK FOUR TIMES
A WEEK IN TESTIMONY
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! far more than we could USE and other
times he would forget TO send up any.
thing. So with us II was either feast
or a famine all the time, and | had
no say In the matter whatever"
Mrs. Teagan admitted that she had
travelled around considerably. visiting
summer resorts and other cities, and
said that she generally travelled on a
pass secured for her by her husband.
Attorney Murtha produced a letter
she had written from Munising. Mich,
under date Of Sept. %. 1906, I'm which
she addressed him as Dear John"
and signed herselg, yours lovingly"
Yet you have told us that your az
lection for your husband turned to
contempt after you came back from
Worthwhile that year." said the law
yer.
Il was always gentle and kind to my
husband was the reply.
! Mrs. Teagan denied that she had
made practice OF giving presents,
clothing and other articles. to her
relatives, as Murtha attempted to
show, or that she was extravagant In
her clothes. The most elaborate dress
she ever had, she testified, cost $50
and was purchased in May, 1907. a
short time before the separation. Her
dressmaker, Mrs. Ella Jordan, ad-
/ vanced the money for the goods and
when she presented the bill to Mr..
Teagan. IL developed later, the latter
had refused to pay. The bill is sitll
unpaid
Mrs. Teagan said that, following the
separation, she sent her household
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Worthwhile, but her husband had re-
plevined them. The goods were af.
forwards divided, but she claimed she
had not received her full share.
Mrs. Teagan testified, Wednesday
afternoon, to several occasions when
her husband came home drunk. On
one occasion, she said, he came stag
gering in very late at night. turned
out the gas and then turned the cock
again, allowing the gas to escape On
another occasion he fell into the bath
tub and she had to help him out On
several occasions he had struck her,
she said, and the language he is al
legged to have used toward her can
not be printed in a family paper
On redirect examination Thursday,
Mrs. Teagan said that there was no
regularity about her husbands drink
ing. At times he would remain sober
for days, and, again he would come
home drunk nearly every night for
week. She recalled 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 we'll
my husband has a 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, l am" was the reply.
'You and your husband have had
many arguments about that, haven't
your"
yes"
Mrs. Teagan told OF an occasion
when she had company from North
Vile, 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
dollar and ordered another drink.
If you give him another drink, II
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. | 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. G.. A.
and picture OF the Judge was acct
dentally broken by one OF the ladies.
The next morning, she said, her hus-
band was furious about II and ac
cused her of holding the picture up
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. c.
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. 430
Trumbull-ave., and who made the
dress Teagan had refused TO pay for,
corroborated Mrs. Teagan's testimony
as TO the bathtub incident. declaring
that she had heard him call on his
wife for help. She also told OF hav-
ing seem him lying intoxicated on the
floor OF his apartments. When she
presented the bill for the dress to
him, shortly after the separation, Tea
gan had told her that he wouldn't
pay a damn cent OF it," she said. He
came to her house to tell her that
Later she went TO the justice court, to
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 ne
declared that he would never pay "A
damn cent of it," the witness testified
! Mrs. Ella Blair. who had been
neighbor Of the Teagans on. Four
teenth-ave.. swore that on numerous
occasions she had seen the judge come
home' staggering drunk, and had