The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-17
ERWIN BRINGS
 DIVORCE SUIT
 AGAINST WIFE
s. MARSHAL SEEKS LEGAL SEPARATION FROM
 HIS SPOUSE.

named in the complaint as Willie
 'aynr+ Erwin The compliant is yolumirous document, covering sev- ter it was filed the attorney for the complainant appeared in court and asked that a special officer be appointed 10 serve the summons. W F. Nhitely was named.
 The chief reasons given in the complaint as 10 why the divorce should be given the plaintiff are adultery and desertion, although sev- eral other charges are made. There are two separate charges of adultery on the part of the defendant named the adulterous acts being alleged to have been committed at two differ cnt times and with two different men. The correspondents. as named n the complaint. are George Mar shall, a young man who recently returned to Fairbanks from a trip to the Outside but who was for Storage in their office here and was later an employee of the Northern Commercial company al one of their lower river stations. and Hugh Me Dermott. former resident of Daw- son. One of the adulterOus acts that with Marshall, Is alleged to have been committed here between January IS. 1913, and June 21, 1914 The other, with McDcrmott. Is al legod to have been committed in Dawson in 1902
 The complaint starts in by stat ing that the couple were married
 Hot Springs. Arkar'as. in 1902 and that their daughter Willie. now about seven years of age, is the is sue. It further asserts that for reasons given in the complaint, the defendant in the proceeding is not a fit and proper person to have charge of the care and education f the minor child And the prayer in the complaint in this regard asks that the plaintiff be given the care of the child.
 Then come the adultery accusa- tons, coupled with charges of cru city and desertion. the complaint stating that the defendant was cruel 10 the plaintiff in that she left him for a period of some weeks in 1902 while both were residents of the Dawson country. And it is further asserted in the complaint that the plaintiff took the defendant back md forgaVe her after she had re- mained away from him for several weeks.
 Most of the happenings named in the complaint as reasons why the ,ln ok lo ration from his wife as far as Fairbanks Is concerned, are alleged to have taken place in 1913 and 1914 while the plaintiff in the pro ceeding was 0n the Outside on the trip during which he secured the
 ~sh"lehin rr tho FOuatl division although the latter fact is not stat ed in the complaint. The assertions made are that in 1913 the defendant was dropped from a certain card club of Fairbanks because she cheat ed at cards, which fact caused a stunning of both by certain people in Fairbanks; that a great deal of adverse criticism was caused on aC- count of the constant association of the defendant with men; and that the defendant during 1914 when she had promised 10 use funds furnished her for carrying on busi- ness of the plaintiff, wrongfully ap- propriated the money and spent sums aggregaJing $3O0O for liquor end other unnecessary things.
 Another accusation is that the dnfendant wilfully deserted the plaintiff in 1914. And included in that part of the complaint is an other statement to the effect that Mrs. Erwin sold considerable prop erty of the defendant prior to her departure for the Outside in 1914 and that she took the family silver and certain Of the Erwin hcirlooms consisting chiefly of a hreastpin and brooch formerly belonging to the plaintiffs mother. And it is -tatcd that I0on "n" occasion wN0r the plaintiff confronted the defend ant with evidence of her misdoings, she was willing to go upon the wit ness stand and swear that he was not the father of their child. The last statement is alleged to have been made before the birth of the child. And another accusation in the complaint is that the defendant made all kinds of false accusations against the plaintiff.
 In the complaint the plaintiff asks that he be adjudged the owner of the lot and residence property on Wendell avenue, in Fairbanks, commonly known as the Erwin place It is now in the name of the defendant, according to the com plaint, which states, however, that f iS not ami never THG hers.
 Other documents filed in the clerk of courts off1ce show that w. F. the special officer appoint cd to serve the summons, made dili- gent search in Fairbanks for the defendant And as the result of his inquiry, he makes affidavit to the effect that he believes that she resides at No. 1417 Euclid, Ave, St. Louis, Missouri, and that she is not in the territory Of Alaska. But it is understood that a copy of the complaint has been mailed to her at the above address.
 AS far as can be ascertained no concerning whether or not Mrs. Erwin will fight the case has been received here.
 Information received by various friends of the couple in Fairbanks on one of the recent mails. in the shape of little announcement cards, is to the effect that MT. and Mrs. Paul R Wagner are the proud par ents of a baby girl, born on March 22. MT and Mrs. Wagner are at INal -l.