The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-06

OBrien Thrown Out.
Tuesday evening, Aug. 26, George
OBrien, often called the Raffling
King Of Superior, discredited and
recently discharged policeman, gave q
fine exhibition of low moral endeayor
at the Coquet hotel, No. 1417 North
Fifth street. ,..., ... re-. .
"Pig-eye" o 'Brien. has poor wife,
neglected children and an alleged
home in Superior, but he seems to be
one OF those bad actors who do not
believe in going home until everything
else around town is shut up. a -
George OBrien, on the aforesaid
day and place, was busiiy engaged in
Furnishing booze in company with his
pet redight woman, The notorious
Berenice. Aiding and abetting the low
moral endeavor were ssBaben. Ste
phens, notorious. and abandoned
prostitute, and J. w. Miller. - =.
There were bottles Of booze without
limit. One would have thought that.
by some magic, the good old wet DAYS
had returned to Superior. Where that
booze was secured, affiant sayeth not
O'Brien and his associates in low
moral moral endeavor. may have
brought the stuff with them. HBaben
Stephens may have had it cached un-
der her virtuous couch. Landlord
WEIGH may have brought it up from
some secret hiding place in the base
ment. All this is something for the
city's detectives to find out.
The quartet of bad actors soaked up
so much booze that they finally be-
came ugly towards one another. There
was an excess Of profanity and
"Babe" fairly outdid herself in let
Ating loose that vile, nasty; obscene
amouth Of hers. O'Brien was SO drunk
puhat he suffered and slobbered over
= is vest when he tried to curse, in
iulge in filthy conversation and OBJ
.Acene abuse. .'.'s:~:... ..'s
!! The scrappy quartet finally began
to throw things. Booze bottles, glasses
and loose articles in the room flew
promiscuously through the bed cham
Der at the classic old Goquet. An in
nocent bystander was hit in the face
and cut by a whisky; glass thrown by.
"Pig-eye" OBrien. That amateur
Mormon thought it. was dornick,
fresh from the ould sod, so drunk
was he.
Should Madam O'Brien desire d.
vorce from her faithless lord and mas
ter and should the little O 'Briens wish
to lose disreputabie dad, there was
plenty Of evidence lin that bibulous
old bedroom in the Uoquet, during the
evening of Aug. &c. The Rip.Saw even
knows the number Of the room, If any
one cares to ask. ..str,pTf go zig =
The innocent ssBabe" Stephens has
sued for divorce from ). Emanuel
Stephens, young soldier whom she
married few days before he went
away to training camp. They hooked
up in Duluth Aug. 8, 1918, she giving
the name of Marian Mcintosh. ...
Through her lawyer, John A. Cadi.
gan, the favorite advocate. of the nm.
derworld folk in Superior; /" Babe"
Stephens, alias Marian Mcintosh, asks
divorce, and the return Of her maiden
name. She alleges that for two years
previous to her marriage che was :
resident Of Wisconsin s: that Htephens
has refused to support her; that he
has treated her <inxa cruel and inhu-
name manner. % 500 - SA
Coming down to specific. cases,
"Babe" alleges that, on Feb. IL, 1919,
at the Midway cafe, Stephens called
her SON Of a fenale dog. q dirty old
prostitute and struck ther III the face.
On April 10, 1918, ~ 'atHe abused
wife alleges, at -Ne.~32 Hammond
avenue, Stephens assadltedg the lawful
wife Of his bosom by. zthrowing her
from the bed, after which he kicked
and pounded her SO. thor0uehly az to
cause her to lose the, Aearing in one
ear. r-.9a uRH r. z aGT hEl 20
Some express the 8, opinion that
HBabe" can hear iron dollars aclink III
male pocket just as clearly as ever
she could and that no dame in the
Ooauet hotel can hear ice blinking in
frosty glass any farther than can
"Babe." They further express the
opinion that if the hearing in one ear
has been destroyed, she did &c herself.
by misdirecting q hat pin when very,
very drunk. Even at that, So say, Inc
sports. sly old Babe = cam hear mere
and farther. with ones ear. than most
women can with two ears and that
Is saying much, shsm aaU e@aFt3
But J. e. Stephens does not propose
to let t'Babe" have her own way. He
has filed cross bin for divorce. He
charges that she isya dissolute woman,
. common prostitute, addicted to the
use Of Intoxicating liquor, given to,
carousing, drinking misunderstanding
with disreputable characters. RI "39t
The husband who now feels that he
made q misfit marriage, charges friskv
old Babe" With Committing ADM.
tory. He specifies March 10, 1919. a.
the time, the Cloques hotel IS the
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