The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-10
DIVORCES ARE. FLOWING FROM
 HIGHER COURT
Five More Today, Making Twenty three Within
 Two Days Time Pretty Actress Gets Separa- tion from Husband-Well Known Young People Di- vorced.

These are ssF'ield Days'' in the di- vorce courts. The decree mill was again busy today. five applications for separation being granted. Along with IS decrees allowed yesterday. there is some activity in the separation line.
 "We lived together three weeks, and then he left me-" said pretty, demure little Lillian V. Curtis. who resides with her brother William H. Hollis, at ST William street. Lillian Hollis mar phia. Dec. 27. 1902. She was then a member of "The Prince of Pilsner" company.
 '"The day after we were welded I went on the road with my company and he went to Boston. In April we finished our tour in Louisville. Ky. and I returned to New York. There I met my husband and we lived to- gether for three weeks. One day he went out. and never returned. have never seen him since" Mrs. Curtis added that she remained in her little flat for one week after her husband went away. and then went to her brothers home in Brooklyn. 1T left my trunk after me. I had no money to pay my board" she said.
 Why did your husband leave you?' asked Judge Shumway.
 T really don't know" she replied, unless it was because he did not have any money. or that I did not have any myself"
 Mrs. Curtis the following season worked as a chorus girl with Roger Bros. For the past four years she CT. Mrs. Curtis was called upon to identify the signature of her husband attached t. the register return. fol- lowing the serving of the papers. ''I'm not very familiar with it." she said. The never wrote much to me-" Theirs was short courtship: follow ing only a few days of acquaintance ship. Mrs. Curtis also stated that she had written to the parents of her husband in Tarrytown. N. r.. but that they had never answered her. though she had mailed over dozen epistles.
 William Hollis. the brother of the young wife. a decorator Ta.h Neil M. Muirhead. said that he had seen his brother -in-law only two years ago in New York. the latter telling him and all his connections to seek a warmer climate. The court allowed the decree on the ground of assertion.
 The marital woes of Emily L.. Standish O'Neil of Hanover street, are now at an end. Judge Shumway to-. day signed the papers which brought about her separation from Thomas J. O'Neil. formerly. of this city. but now a resident of Lewiston. Me.
 Her decree was allowed on the ground of assertion, Feb. 15, 1906. Habitual intemperance and intoler- able cruelty were also alleged. Emily Mareh 1 magcsd agos sharfy Ssoss oH sl marriage, O'Neil had fallen into con siderable revenue thfough the death of his mother, but if is said that be- cause of his dis sipations, his funds disappeared. Mrs. O'Neil told the court that after her marriage she went to reside in Fairfield, where her husband purchas.d d property. It was but year after their marriage that he began drinking heavily. "He would come home at all hours of the night" said Mrs. O'Neil, "ant would be hard O'Neil added that he used to drive in- to Fairfield from this city, that on many occasions the horse had to be the one to take him home. He often fell asleep in his carriage, and the neighbors were obliged to be called lost positions in the Graphophone Co. and the Bryant Electric Co. because of his drinking. At one time O'Nei! threw a carving knife at his wife, at- tempted to throw lighted lamp al her on anoth,r. and often threatened to shoot her.
 Warren Standish, a brother, stated that O'Neii had gone through all his finances, but that he still owned a farm in Greenfield Hill, but the prop erty was heavily mortgaged.
 Hurling lighted lamps was a fav- orite pastime of Thomas J. Gourley. according to his wife. Julia B. Gour- ley, S5 Trumbull road, who was al. lowed a separation on the ground oi assertion, July 4, 1904. The couple were married May 28, 1891. In ex- blaming the separation, Mrs. Gourley ment with woman with whom he was on friendly terms, and came home angry. He was ugly" said Mrs. Gourley, because his shoes were not shined. He knocked me down with a blow on the head, and also knocked down my mother. When he was passing out of the door, he said, I'm goin{ to leave you. You cap have me srested, you can do as you please about it. He left, and has never since returned" Mrs. Gourley said that he came home intoxicated at her, it was the first time, and then began beating her sister. "He came home drunk every Saturday night, and would be ugly for the next week. He never drew a sober breath.' After Gourley left two bills. each for $25 rom loCdl ClOtHIHS HTIHS cdIne tO the house. "He was always a swell dress er,'' said Mrs. Gourley, ''he always presented a neat appearance" It took Mrs. Gourley almost two years to pay the bills at the rate of fifty cents a week.
 The call of the sea was more allur- ing to Josiah W. Banks, of Salem, Mass, formerly of Greenwich than life with his wife, Flor B. Banks and their two children. Mrs. Banks was a separation on the grounds of assertion April 30, 1906. They were married Aug. 2, 1899. Mrs. Banks at the time of the marriage was a widow. ''He was very irritable" she said, "very ugly to me and the children. He did not care to have us around. He hated us so much that he iainad thn navy and was amau SiH