Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-17
ANNAPOLIS GIRLS
SERIAL MARRIAGE
Welded Life Of the Germans Made
Up Mostly Of Separations and
Returns.
SIX MONTHS---PROBATION.
Platonic Honeymoon and Friendly
Wedding Finally End in Total
Eclipse of Love.

Justice Finch, of the Supreme Court
of New York, yesterday signed writ
of habeas corpus directing Mrs. Lillian
German to produce in Court her son
Robert, six years old. The application
was made by John w. German, husband
of the defendant, as briefly published
in yesterdays Capital.
Mr.. German courted his wife in An
napolis, and here he married her. Mrs
German insisted that martial relations
between herself and husband should be
wedding day. Mr.. German was not
eager TO enter into such an arrange
ment, but he though that the sooner he
was married, the sooner would end the
period of probation. So he agreed, and
the wedding took place on January 80
1907.
The bride and bridegroom continued
living in Annapolis, and except the ring
on the brides finger there was nc
change in the situation. Mr.. German
called at his wife's home, chated with
her until the conventional hour when
unmarried couples should separate and
then they separated. Came the sum
eager to set up housekeeping. Mrs
German adhered to the letter and spirit
of the agreement and he yielded.
For five years they lived together as
happily as many young married people
do In his application Mr.. German ex-
planned that his wife was "spitfire, .
and mreasonably jealous. This caus-
ed him much annoyance, land he admit
ted having said and done some things
that caused him regret. He never
abused her, he said, or trified with her
feelings in any way, but his wife was
discontented and unsettled in mind.
In the summer of 1912 something had
to be done to relieve the tension. His
wife told him, Mr.. German said, that
she wanted to go on the stage, and she
soon afterward left him as the first step
toward a stage career. But Mrs. Ger
man only went to the home of her
brother, where she remained four days
and then, firing of it, telephoned a low
ing message to her husband, who glad
ly invited her to return home. Things
ran along peacefully for a time, until
Mrs. German again displayed signs OF
restlessness.
So one evening she had long talk
with her husband. Just what she said
is not set forth in the papers, but it ap-
pears that she was convinced she could
not go on forever just as a wife and
housekeeper, with nothing else to look
forward to. If she could Sc an end to
it she would be better satisfied Mr.
German consented to the making of an
agreement by which he and his wife
were to live together until March, 1913.
He said that she so provoked him in
the meantime, and made him so un-
happy,that he made separation agree
ment with her.
At this time they were living at $40
West 160th street, New York His wife
continued living there, and Mr.. Ger
man made his home at the Young Men S
Christian Association in West Fifty
seventh street. He thought that all
was over between him and his wife, but
he was deceived, for a week later she
telephoned him loving message. They
met, explained and resumed the home
life again.
Made wise by the many disappaoint-
ments that had beset him in his marital
field, Mr.. German determined that he
would not tie his wife down to any long
agreement. Another talk and they
concluded that they would live togeth-
er at least until May, 1913. This gave
Mrs. German something to see in the
near future, and affairs prospered in
their home for time, but later there
were chickering's, recriminations and
unhappiness, so again the couple sep
arated
Mrs German kept the two children,
Robert and Wesley, with her, and Mr..
German did not object because his wife
had always treated them well and had
never bothered him about anything
when she was not living with him.
Now, feeling that all is over, Mr.. Ger
man wants one of the children, and has
chosen Robert, the eldest. He will try
to explain to the Court why he should
have the custody of Robert, and Mrs.
German, perhaps, will try to prove that
she should have them both.