The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-10-11
OWOSSO, MICH. OCT. II, 1912.
Circuit Court.


passed of grist Of divorce cases In
ake circuit court Saturday.
Edith r. Clark, 2S, announced
not her husband, Charles II. Clark,
II, and she were married in Genes
seSA ~. Y, IL years ago. He stayed
lpoznd home. she said, for a time,
a1M then disappeared. She learned
amer ward, it was shown that he had
8etaed the regular army to escape
prosecution for theft. He is now in
Fort Leavenworth, Kas., military
Ssseon. serving time for desertion.
Mrs. Clark is working as house
Keeper in Owosso. She will be grant
ass decree as soon as her residence
is established in Michigan. One of
her witnesses created a laugh in
<os~t when she said that Mrs. Clark
'*orked for lawyers and the very best
csass of people. Judge G. F. Erie
set Of Owosso, who acted as her at
ScrHey, declared that lawyers belong
80 10 the best class of people and the
GoSrt Joined in the laugh that follow
sJ-
Mary Caffo, Al, told through her
laughter, Mrs. Benedetta MITCHELL,
aew her husband, Joseph Cato, A,
came home from work at night and
0raered her out of the house. They
we're married in Italy % years ago.
ME-. CAffo also declared that her hus-
oaAd was mean and wouldn't sup
port her She was granted separ-
ate maintenance.
George Grant, 20, of Conway, Liv-
Insstone county was all right until
As bought an automobile last summer
declared his wife, Lydia, 2S. She
SKID she saw George with two girls
Rn the machine at Morrice. He
brought suit for divorce soon after
shts. but abandoned the case when
ne went to Northwest Canada. She
was granted decree on a cross-bill.
Both come from prominent families
IN Livingstone county.
Mary Bogart, 81 celebrated the
25tb anniversary of her marriage to
Howard, So, by fighting a suit for di-
voree in the circuit court Saturday.
She said he was sulky and ugly about
ete house. and would not talk to her.
xnsu they had visitors, she said. he
reminded her that they were mot
Reeping boarders."
The Judge gave Mrs. Bogart very
touching talk, and at the end asked
II she wouldn't go back and live with
asr- husband. "No. / won't" she
dksD9ared very emphatically. The
casa was held up temporarily, how
ever, and the four children will at
tSGzpt to effect reconciliation.
Edith Chapman, 3S, asked d.
sorce from Edward, SO, former
Free Methodist minister. She said
he'wss stingy and refused to buy her
cycthes. He is now in Canada, she
avegred. and she has not seen him
Cor IS months. She was given a de-
cree.
William Pitts, 70, of Bancroft,
asked a divorce from Asenath. "a,
whom he married few years ago.
Yney lived together seven months, it
~zs shown. Then her two grown
ssns came to five with them and the
ccsrpIainant, declared, refused to
vark. Pitts said he didn't like this
sind while they were discussing the
toys, on one occasion, his wife said:
Dig your old hide, they are my
boys, and don't you pick on them"
Finally. he declared, the boys
ERoyed out, but to a house nearby,
md bis wife used her apron to good
Advantage, and even then, Pitts said
hGs helping to care for the boys cost
AIM 100 much. When they parted,
&e said. he gave her gold watch and
- chain. but she wanted $40 in cash
besides. She was given a decree,
ARD the matter of alimony was set
TIED satisfactorily.
fhomas Mahoney, 3S, of Rush
scsguship was a much henpecked
hnsband. Some of the things he suf-
Jared at the hands of Grace, 25, are
zs follows:
She struck him once with beet
fark and broke four of his ribs; on
aautber occasion, she struck him ov-
~ the head with coffee pot filed
With hot coffee, and wound was in
fzseted and bled freely; again she
Knocked him off the milking stool,
Under the COW, and he was drenched
by the milk from the pail.
Jennie Truax went in swimming
with six men, in the Clinton river at
E'outiac in May 1911, according to
wer husband, Colon, "a, in his suit
for divorce. When a deputy sheriff
rznas to arrest her, he declared, she
md under a bridge, but was finally
,zauced to come out and dress and go
Ge JaiE Later she was sent to the
adrian school.
Colon declared that he worked in
G3wosso at the time, but is now en-
pRoyed in Lansing. He says he mar
ried the girlN in Windsor, some time
ego She told him at the time that
ss2s was IS, he said, and he believed
is, bat now thinks she was not more
rhs,u f5 He will be granted a de-