The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-24
NANNY GOAT
LOOMS LARGE AS
HOME WRECKER
Chief Cause Of Domestic Woes,
Says Mrs. VIM. Shay in
Divorce Petition
KEPT NEIGHBORHOOD
IN CONSTANT FERMENT
Every Time Woman Complained,
Husband Would Pound Her,
She Says

William Shay was very fond Of
animals. especially goats.
According to q divorce petition
filed, Saturday, by Mrs. Shay, the
goat was the Anal straw that broke
the camefs back. Bill had been
moderately mean, she said. right
along. That is TO say he beat her
and kicked her few times, spent
most Of his time and all his money in
saloons, had his 'lady friends" call
at the house for him and take him
out on joy-rides. and wasn't particu-
larly good to the eight children.
But II was the goat that ended
things. That is the goat and the
chickens--the feathered kind-which
Bill persisted In keeping under the
house.
Nan. the goat. spent her mornings
nibbling grass and her afternoons
eating the neighbor's washing, tin
tcansrdaaF picket fences, drain
pipes, potted plants. etc. Then Nan
would go under the house and go to
sleep.
At night Nan would get restless
and want to walk In the moonlight.
This was all right, except that when
Nan got up she disturbed several in
dignant hens that also called the
hole under the house home" They
would make much fuss about being
awakened, and as q result everyone
woke up in the neighborhood.
Bill was very fond OF Nan, and
every time Mrs. Shay would say
some little thing about taking Nan
to the butcher, Bill would feel 30
hurt and 80 sorry for the poor dumb
beast that he would break right out
crying, and wouldn't be comforted
until he had pounded Mrs. Bill.
Once he shook SO with emotion
that he shook teapot full OF hot
tea over his wife. Another time
when Mrs. Shay was sick In bed and
1t was as cold as the deuce outdoors,
that goat subject came up and Bill
got so mad he kicked the legs out
from under the stove and then threw
1t downstairs, and the neighbors had
to come over and put the stove back
In place.
stand the goat and the chickens and
the beatings any longer and she went
away. She Is stfl1 away and Bill is
left with his Nanny and his chickens.
his wife says.
George Northrup Is only q mes
senger boy but he has had q some
what varied experience In matters
matrimonial, according to testimony
given by his second wife, before
Judge Mandell, Saturday. She said
he had abused his first wife and that
few weeks after marrying No.
started similar treatment.
Il was only 16 years old, but he
beat me up just as II l were q wom-
an" she said.
She also said George was q hard
drinker. She got q decree.
Cora Wannamaker declared her
husband got drunk often and that
while he was always able to reach
home he consistently went to sleep
on the porch and she was obliged to
drag him in and undress him. She
also was freed.
A. w. Wood hunted for his wife for
three months to secure service In his
divorce action, and failed to find her
until one day, the patrol wagon
dashed by and he saw her peering
out the back, he said. He followed
the wagon to the Detention home,
where she Is being held In connection
with burglary alleged to have been
committed by a gentleman friend"
He secured decree and the custody
of their three-year-old child.