Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-31
NINE WIVES AND ONE
 HUSBAND SEcuRE nIunRcEs

Ten tdlworces were granted and two 1 cases were continued for further ev- idences out of the dozen presented be- fore Judge John w. Banks at the short calendar session of the superior court +here Friday morning.
 In nine cases where diyorces were granted the petitioners were the wives of five of these alleged intoIera- ble cruelty and four desertion as a reason why they wanted legal release from their marital bonds.
 The following was the business be- fore the court:
 Anna M. Baugh, of New London, se- cured divorce from Clarence T. Baugh of the same place and had her name changed to Anna M. Nelson. The grounds were desertion since March l. 1914. They were married Febru- ary IA, 1914.
 For desertion since Jan. l. 1914, Ma zie P. Rogers of New London secured divorce from Ralph, Byron Rogers of ried oil August z. 1910. Her maiden name was Kelley.
 John Pickering of Norwich. who married Ethel Shaw Wilkinson, on April .28, 1881. secured divorde from her on the grounds of desertion since November 2G, 1SsS She is now of parts unknown. An ailega ton in the writ of a statutory offense committed 1 at New Bedford. between June, 1908, and June 1910. was not pressed. Mamie Dill Sears of Groton, alleged desertion since July I 1916, and se- 1 cured divorce on these grounds from I Clarence B. Sears of New London, 1 whom she married on July 19. 1909 1 She is to resume her maiden name of | Mamie Dill.
 Agnes Sarah Turner Of. Norwich,
 James Turner of Norwich on the
 grounds of intolerable cruelty since 1 March -s1. 1914. They were married 1 on the first day of January. the same 1 year, her maiden name being Elem 1 ing The mother was given custody l of her five. year old son; whom the father is to be allowed to see at :: reasonable times.
 i Louise Elize B. Knabe. of New i London secured divorce on the grounds !sof intolerable cruelty from Ernest I Richard Knabe, formerly of Plainfeld. i now of parts unknown. They were l married on March 2. 1916, and Mrs. Knabe alleged the cruelty of which i she complained hegaa in October of
 that year. The maiden name of the wife was Bayreutrer. She was giv-
 en the custody of her three year old
 Intolerable cruelty was also the
 grounds upon which Mary Maloney Jarvis of New London, was granted divorce from Leon Jarvis, of New London. to whom she was married on June 10, 1902. Shn claimed she had been cruelty treated since June 1, 1914 She was given the custody of I minor daughter.
 I Another divorce: for intolerable
 cruelty was that granted to Pansy
 Lord Murray of New London, from i William J. Murray, now of parts un- ] known. They were married on Oc- tober l, 1911 and she claimed she had l been cruelty treated since the first
 ofs November, the next year. The court allowed her to change her name to Pansy Lord.s @
 On the grounds of -desertion since
 May 2, 1916. Helen B. Hooper. of Norwich, was granted a divorce, from
 LinZee. $. HoopeT, now of Quincy,
 Mass. They were married on October I 4, 1913, in this city.
 l Cecil Maury Mclaughlin, of New
 London, alleged intolerable cruelty
 since June 1. 1915, and secured di- vorce from John J. Mclaughlin of New
 London, whom she married on March l 5, 1912 She was granted Q change oi Iname,-to Cecil Maury.
 Judge Banks continued the two fol-
 lowing cases for further evidence:
 Grace Watson Stivers. of New Lon don, souht divorce from Raymond T
 Stivers, now Of Murphysboro, Illinois
 They were married on May 3. 1918, ano
 she alleged the cruelty began on Au-
 gust 1, 1918- as.t..1a.
 ! Charles Oliver .Charbino, OF Nor i3Wicf. an, acrobat by profession, ask ed for divorce from Beulah Pear | Hodgkins Charbino, alias Beulah Pear
 Hodgkins Brooks, formerly of De-
 troit, and now of San Diego. Cal. The petitioner claimed that his wife has teommitted bigamy by marrying Lewis M. Brooks. on September il. 1916. al ,l Vallejo Township. county of Soiano California. when she was already the
 wife of Charbino, having married hin | on June g, 1911, at Philadelphia The ? petitioner claimed that his. wife has lived with Brooks as Brooks wife a 3 San Diego. and Vallejo, since Septem- : Der Il. 1916. A certificate of the wed
 ding in California and letter iron , Brooks in October, last stating tha : Res.had already been granted an in. t'terfocutory decree of divorce wert ' Eanengl the papers in the case.