The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-12
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RELATED BY SERPA
Follows Filing Of Divorce Suit
BY An Early Discontin-
uance In Court :,
Wife Takes Turn and Comes
Through With Action For T.
Separation - 4

N. J. Serpa s divorce suit against his
wife, Mrs. Jessie Serpa, was short. lived.
He fled il on Tuesday and at three.
twenty-five yesterday afternoon discon.
tinued the action, the ,discontinuance
being filed by his lawyer, Lorrin An.
drews.
The Serpa family troubles are not all
out Of Court yet. shortly before Serpa
discontinued his action for divorce.
Mrs. Serpa fled a. suit for separation,
The case was the eighteenth fled 30 far
this month in the local circuit court.
Since the first Of the year 100 divorce
suits have been instituted in Honolulu
alone.
Serpa has been cited to appear before
Judge Stuart at ten clock next Sat.
urday morning to show cause why he
shall not pay his wife temporary ali
mony as well as q fee to Mrs. Serpa 3
lawyer, Leon M. Straus.
Narrowing are the details given in
Serpa g discontinued suit for divorce
and, If his charges are true-they have
not been proven yet-the Serpas must
have lived with as much peace, content
ment and happiness as now predomi.
mates in Europe.
Married Five Years
He says that he and Mrs. Serpa were
married in Honolulu on February 22.
1911, by the Rev. A. V. Soares, pasor of
the Portuguese Evangelical Church Of
this city and that they have two daugh.
ters, four and three years old, respec.
lively.
dn Rftaon ~ t,uooty d;an.onk oo..
sions, claims Serpa, the police were call.
ed to quiet the scenes and rows raised
In the Serpa home by the lady of the
house. She hit him heavy blow in the
back of the head, he says, knocking him
senseless. Serpa claims he still carries
about with him the marks of this par.
ticular assault.
".... at another time, >" states the
discontinued libel for divorce, "while
he was lying on couch, ibellee struck
him on the back of the head with q
china vase, causing a severe wound and
stunning him."
The complaint fails, however, to say
what happened to the china vase.
Mamma Also Mentioned
He claims further that his wife abus-
ed his mother and assaulted her on oc-
easions. Mamma Serpa complained to
the police, her son alleges, but with
what results does not appear in his
story.
On still another occasion she took a
razor, he claims, and attempted to kill
him, but other persons took the keen
edged implement from her. However,
she continued cursing and swearing at
him, until the whole neighborhood vas
aroused.
Serpa g cup of bitterness OVERLOOKED,
apparently, on last Sunday. On this &C.
casion, he says, Mrs. Serpa again as
saulted him, "blackening his eye and
causing his nose to bleed" This ere
ated an awful scene and the police had
to be sent for. The libel does not say
whether the police ever got ON the job
and quieted the turmoil.
Troubles Go To Court
Things moved fast. The last assault
occurred last Sunday. On Tuesday Ser
pa filed his suit for divorce and on We'd
nesday disc continued it. Also, on Wed,
nesday, Mrs. Serpa came through with
a suit for separation, but up to the
tinued the action. On Saturday tho
Serpas will appear before Judge Stuart
for the hearing of the order to show
cause.
Judge Stuart yesterday granted de-
cree of divorce, to take effect imme-
diately, to Jiro Sakima from Mrs. Nabe
Sakima, on the ground Of desertion.
To vary the monotony Of things in
the divorce court, Judge Stuart yester-
day sent Henry Wise, the vaudeville
artist, to the territorial prison, "until
he complies with the orders of the
court, or until the further order of the
court" reads the order signed by
Clerk Benjamin N. Kahalepuna and ap-
proved by Judge T. B. Stuart.
Hen Wise Sent to Jail
Henry Wise recently lost his wife,
via the divorce route. He failed to dig
alimony as ordered by the court and
yesterday Judge Stuart declared him
in contempt of court. Sending "Hen -
Wise to the penitentiary caused, how
ever, some comment in judicial circles,
as contempt of court has never been
considered felony, it is claimed. Fol
lowing Wise 3 commitment to the peni'
Tertiary the order of commitment was
altered, it is claimed, so that ''Hen'
Wise will be kept in the city prison
until he obeys the orders of court.
The papers in the divorce case OF
Mrs. Georgiana Ladd against Eddie
Ladd, filed on Tuesday, were returned
Yesterday as served on the hbeAee.
The Eadds were married in Honolulu
on April IA, 1871, by Elder Gilbert j.
Waller, and have had three children,
two of whom are living. Extreme cruel