The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-06

Jucye French struggled TO cor
minutes later, as he came off the
and said to a Star man;
~sueh procedure, In my opinion
hibltion Of cruel and unusual punli
Practically every wife who wen
on the stand Friday told OF helng
cruelty beaten and maltreated: ant
IN a majority OF cases the cause o.
tho cruel treatment was ascribet
70 drink.
Elmer L. Miller failed TO got 9
decree from Jennie II. Miller lie
said she up and left him, taktng
their two children.
~And ala you try 10 find them .
quericd tho Judge. gently.
Miller said he didn't.
Then you don't deserve di
, vorce." Numbered the court. II
you take no interest in your chill
dren you have no right TO them.
John Livermors has a young
daughter. But he doesn't know
her age. Nor does he know
where she Is lie has never
seen her, for that matter. This
according 10 his testimony
Friday.
He aid his wife left him
after he bad made one com
paint about his meals not
being ready when he came
home from work. Later she
returned and said she had been
IN San Francisco. where the
baby was born. But she would
not say where Il was. He has
been unable to find the little
girl. since.
Divorced!
Rose Little sounded no more
animated than II she had been tell-
ing an agent she wasn't Interested
IN his wares.
HE drank and came home and
beat me up all the time. had
him arrested once. We have one
child. boy"
She recited II all in llstless tones.
Divorced,
The gray-hsired mother OF Olive
perorce nsrvorsly twtrled the
strings OF her purse as she sat In
sently watching her blck.hared
daughter on the stand az the lat
ter told how she. a waitress. sup
ported Edward DeForce, even to
buying his tobacco and having his
clothes cleaned. Olive qualified
with most Of the other Divorces
By saying that Edward beat her up.
II was plain case OF desertion
with Mrs. Emma F. Townsend. she
said that Harry s. Townsend LETT
her in Alberta, Canada, eight years
ago, wrote to her two years later,
and thereafter preserved the con
fistent silence Of IN uncommunica-
tive clam. she made her living by
running a boarding and rooming
house.
Divorced,
Bernardlne Lees husband. Geo.
T.. was a barber. said Mrs. Lee.
In 1913 he went TO Port Angeles,
and soon after advised her To ship
the furniture, which she did.
and then he went on one OF his
periodicals, and sold the furniture
and departed, and | haven't seen
him SINCE" concluded Mrs. Lee.
But | got the furniture back"
When Sophie Person wed
liver Person she had $500 and
he had $500. They Invested II
In a fishing boat, ard Mrs. Per-
son hasn't seen any money
since, In any large sums.
"He ssnbled and drank"
she told the Judge. And once
he tore all my clothes of. and
r tried TO kill me. Once had
deputy sheriff and a policeman
take him from a gambling
house"
And then came Mrs. Joanna Ma
lone. whose testimony was inter
rupted by the shores OF the tired
out spectator.
She said that James n. Malone.
among other things, departed a
few months after the nuptials, with
the promise that when he returned
he would have gun and kin her.
The case was continued, because
the Judge decided there was not
sufficient corroborative testimony.
The story OF Julius G. Berens
was simple. short and pointed.
"She made periodical visits 10
Atlantic City against my Wishes
Finally she went away with an.
other man, and I never heard OF
her afterwards. so I sold out our
household effects and went back 10
live with my folks"
Divorced from Lucy Berens.
Because Rudolph W. n.
Schultz continually came homo
drunk and beat his wife, Louise
D. I. Schultz, she quilt him. She
told Judge French that Schultz
beat her over the head with a
stick, pulled her ears, used vile
language and threatened her,
so that she was afraid Of her
life. At last there came Q
night when no came home In
one Of his drunken RACES and
beat her cruelty. Her patience
and her love both snapped, and
picking up their little girl she
ran from the house and went
TO her sisters, where she was
taken in and protected.
The lsndlsdy where the cou.
pie once lived testified 10 hear