Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-11-14
MARRYING GAME EASY.
me Of q. L.. Jenrnc,l's Weddings stop.
ped Just In Time.

Divorce cases heard In county court us
,ally Jack that element known as Human
Interest,"" hut the case of Florence
learned VS.. George l.. Learned, which
gas heard before Judge Taylor Friday.
proved an exception 20 the rule Mrs.
Learneds name was Florence Terrill be-
tore her marriage aud she lived in Under
ill. According to the plaintiffs tcstl-
iony Friday. her husband. who is
,ow in parts unknown, gave her reason
think that truth ~ indeed stranger
han fiction"
It appears that Learned married the
petitioner in this case after he had Sc
ured a Reno divorce from his first wife
IN the grounds of desertion. The couple
went to live III Waitsfield and here, ac-
rordng to Mrs. Learned. she began TO
have experiences that led her to believe
icr husbands reputation for honesty was
l4oL all that II should be. One night the
arm on the place where the couple re-
died was burned Mrs. Learned test'ted
nat after the insurance had been ADJUST
she found that certain things when
lad been claimed by her husband to nave
,ecu destroyed began to turn up ana sne
,ad reason to think all was not right IN
connection with the burning of the barn.
Mrs. Learned said her husband later
vent to Valdosta, Ga, and 1t was while
ia was there that she was able tn get In
effective work to prevent him from mar
wing again. 1t seems. according to her
tory, that when Learned reached Val
tosta he made the acquaintance or a
young and beautiful southern girl, whom
he induced to marry him. The glfl
mother, suspecting that all was not right.
wrote to a minister at Waitsfeld to as
certain someth hing of Learned's history.
Tho date of the wedding at Valdosta had
been eet but tho letter which the Waits
Geld minister sent in reply reached the
girls mother Just IS minutes BEFORE
Learned arrived and the wedding was
declared of Learned Is said to have left
for parts unknown and never to have
been heard from since.
BOUGHT HIS SHOES.
That Arthur Parizo OF Winooski
wouldn't speak to MS wife on the
street and forbade her to speak to him
a fter she had bought him pair o..
shoes because his own credit was not
good, was a part Of the testimony Of
fered Friday afternoon by Mrs
Parizo in the divorce case OF Carrie
Parizo va Arthur Parizo. Tie petit
TONER asks divorce, the custody or
a small child and sufficient alimony
to support the child.
Mrs. Parizo, n quiet spoken young
woman, was the first witness in this
case. She testified that her husband
had never supported her and That she
was obliged to work as a clerk In a
store and also to go out working by
the DAY in order to support herself and
her child. She said that her husband
used whatever money he got for his
own PURPOSES such as riding In auto
mobiles and attending the PlattsburGh
fair. Her husband would not pay for
the groceries and provisions he or
.iered, she said, and her parents hal
been obliged to take them In for tho
ten asked her husband for money bu:
that he had refused her. She said she
bought him pair of snoes because
his credit was not good ana that after
he obtained the shoes ne told her not
to speak to him again.
Mrs. Parizos mother. Mrs. Affair
testified that her daughters husband
would not work and that she had tai.
on the couple into her home ami help
ed to support them. The father of the