The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-22
DENTIST
SUES F0R DIVORCE;
DISCRETION. CHARGE
Doctor Baptista Says He Has
Resided In san Francisco
Over One Year
HINTS MADE LlBELLANT
!. HAS COMMITTED PERJURY
wife Destitute, But Friends WIN
wake FlGht TO Defeat
husbands Purpose
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Dr. Joseph p. Bapsista, nnfGl the be-
ginning o. Inst September praeticing
dentist IN Honolulu, has brought ssuit
tsr divorce in the superior court o.
San Frsnelseo against bis, wife, Mrs.
LILLIAN Baptiyta Of Honolulu The pa
I,crs, We're served on Mrs, Baptista here
TueEday OF last week, The ease Is
Known as No, 6Q33 ID ,the. dles Of tie
sun francisco superior count.
Armed with numerous anlihvits, to
lisproFe many Of haptista y ,allegp-
tions III the complaint aRR;pst his wife,
ATTORNEY William y. Rawiits LIFT Tues.
day n tho steamer Sibefa fdr san
Ffaneiscn. where a fi6hf VIII h6 made
IA the bitter end "a defeat tie hue
band . aims to secure q Divorce under
what are claimed to be false grounds.
IN fact, It il said that ghaEHes Of
perjury may DO preferred against the
former yonpg Hoholuln dentist
Dessftiop = Charge
The charge nnde,by Baptista, against
bis wife Is simply one OF desertion,
but he makes Allegations, Il rs said, in
res6ard IA his residence "a San F9aIlcis.
M AMI ma time that he cairns they
separated, which are not true.
I It requires a year : residence In Cal
Iifornia to entitle one 70 prtnR SUI;
Cor divorce and Mrs. BaPtista s nus
hand had been residing An f,an Fran.
disc only little more thalp TWO
months when he fled his suit. IN the
complaint. however. he alleges that ne
hal been residing il tho toass city for
more than a year and three months,
Under the athdayit attached g the
lomplalntt Doetor isaIltlst's swore sueil
70 be the truth, wherein, y y claimed
ne eomn9ft.ea perjury A d
Honolalan Writes on Facts r
Statements Of Fact. IL least claimed
10 be such, are contained in letter
written bv ,Honolulu man ar prom.
Iinenco, Ia II. i. Mulerevv. clerk Of the
superior court of san Ffancisco. AM,
which are sail "a. bear Directly on me
case. y The letter Il datea J ahrhfy &.
'efsMrs Liliian BaBfistas az this cit,,
was YESTERDAY served with 4 cbinpiaini
ANA 'diyorce Summons In ina actor,
brought Nv her husband aaainst ner
lbeinS No 6oss al the flres' az volt
court X wrote the Honoiulan. \
nIn the complaint tine husband
.Tosebh ~ Baptista. alleges that the
parties separated January 2Sf 1918
and that tney inaye ilysd sepaEAse ano
apart ever since; tnat we nasDA e ~
resided IN the kity ana olhfy 81 SAi
Francisco Lor more tnan one yshr hnc
fares months next psecsdihg '1e niins
OF tne eonp'aiht' and 80 tort TOT =
Story In a Nutshell ~
aThe facts In this ca.s are, thai
the parties were married. in Honolulu
.Aurlist ii. fAll: that they resided to
yether, as husband and wife IN Homo
| lnh until some time in .kily, 1914, lyI4
he left her and children in July, 1914
and remained away from her until tn,
middle, of August, 1914; that they mad,
an; that they left here for San Fran
cisco August %, 1al4, and arrived Their,
September j, 1914; that they resided
together for some three weeks in sar
Francisco before he again left her
that she left San Francisco November
4, 1914, and returned To Honosuiu, ans
that tho action was begun by him ii
the superior court Of San Francisco
November n, 1914, a little over iva
months after his arrival in San Fran
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