Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-04
SEPARATION WAS
NOT A DIVORCE
Joseph Dudzinski Thought it Was
and it Cost Him Three Months
Imprisonment.

After serving three months in the work
house for bigamy, because he had mistak-
en- articles of separation for divorce,
Joseph Dudzinski at last secured the
divorce in Superior Court yesterday alter
noon. II was testified that the second
woman he married does not now want to
live with him. Witnesses told Of his being
thrown out of his father-in-law' home at
the instigation of his wife, and OF her re-
fusal to come with him when he offered to
provide home for her.
John Whitlock, OF Middletown, mar
ried 30 years ago and deserted D years
ago, secured q divorce In Superior Court
Yesterday. He testified that his wife has
been living for years in Wilmington with
another man.
Caroline L. Francois, petitioning for
annulment of her marriage to Ricnard u.
Francois, said that she lived with her
husband for only two days after the mar
rage in May, 1917 The only news of him
since then, she said, was from another
woman who had lived with him and who
said that third woman, still living, Is his
legal wife. The woman who lived with
him illegally is married to another man,
and her brother has made every effort TO
separate her and Francois. Action IN the
case was delayed, pending eviden nee as to
Francois earlier marriage.
The following DEGREES nisi OF divorce
were granted by Judge Heisel: Margaret
j. Minker of Newport, from Howard l..
Minker, desertion; Virginia Taliaferro
from William H. Taliaferro, desertion;
Edward NJ. Foreacre from Ethel a. Fore
acre, desertion; Edward Smith OF New
Castle, from Margaret Barthlow Smith,
desertion; Edith M. Diffendall from
Francis L. Diffendall, with permission to
resume her maiden name OF Edith NJ.
Schuyler, desertion; Caroline Beauchamp
from Oliver n. Beauchamp; Anna Nj.
flanagan from John T. flanagan; Elva
Cox from James H. Cox, adultery;
Walter J. johnson, Jr., from May E.
Johnson, dcsertion.
A decree IN the case of Rose Nimchick
against William Nimchick, Jr., was post
poned awaiting evidence of separation for
two years
DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES.
A spite marriage WAS ended with
divorce In Superior Court yesterday.
Mrs. Rachael w. Johnson testified that
William Y. johnson had married her to
prevent anyone else having her, although
he did not want her himself, and that
after marriage he preferred to live with
another woman Divorce was granted on
grounds of adultery and extreme cruelty.
When q servant came to the house OF
Mr. and Mrs Harlan W. Huston, Mrs.
Huston went out, she testified yesterday
in the trial of her petition for divorce.
which WAS granted.
A mother-in-law in the house of her
married daughter, in spite of the most
open and strenuous objections OF the nah
of the house, was the cause of Edward
p Hindes' divorce on grounds of deser-
tion. He testified that after he had finally
ordered his mother-in-law out, his wife
left while he WAS at work.
Other divorces granted yesterday by
Judge Rice were az follows: Cecilia Dobbs
from Thomas NJ Dobbs, desertion:
Martha McElwee against Bernard Nc
Elwee, cruelty: Guy NJ. Flower against
Elsie A. Flower, adultery: Lewis H. Low
ther against Mary K. Lowther, desertion:
Harry w. Hudson against Cora A. Hud-
son, desertion; Eleanor Hopes Jones
against Ascor j. Jones, desertion and
extreme cruelty: RafTaele Ippoliti against |
Amelia Ippoliti, adultery.