The Washington times., 1922-03-13
V0N;|JRE
DECREE IS
HELD VOID
District Supreme Court Ignores
Moncure and Has Twice
We'd Man Jailed.
BY HARVEY l.. COBB.

The first Of Little Reno's IA
nous divorce decrees was today de-
clared void by the District Supreme
Court.
Despite the fact that members
|pf thegEittle Rsao divorces ring
have told thSir clients that Judgs
|Moncurs's .divurcs decrsss ~ars -
good as though granted by the
United States Supreme Court" the
local court today held otherwise.
!. The first test" OF authority be
tween the local court and Little
Reno's divorce Judge was made this
morning when Judge Bailey, OF the
District Supreme Court. waived the
Little Reno divorce decree aside and
ordered Julius w. Dorsey locked up.
Dorsey had been paying his wife
maintenance for their two children.
Overtures were made to him BY
agents of the Little Reno divorce
ring that he could stop that
monkey business" IL he would get q
divorce in Alexandria against his
wife.
The idea fell on fertile soil, and
Dorsey engaged Charles Henry
Smith, Little Reno's representative
in the State legislature, TO represent
him.
The matter was made simple by
using Mrs. Mary L., Baggett, Little
Reno's divorce queen, to make The
affidavit that Dorsey lived In her
house, and the divorce went. through
without hitch.
The divorce was granted by Judge
Moncure on September last, on
the testimony of Mrs Baggett.
Dorsey thought he had shaken the
shackles of his first matrimonial
venture.
First Wife in Ignorance.
He married again. on November
is. All of this happened without
any knowledge to wife Number One.
who was sued on the grounds Of
three years deaertion. H
After several months of delay.
wife Number One appealed to the
local court for the maintenance
money for her two children.
Then the facts came out. Dorsey
had secured a legal" divorce. he
no longer had to support his two
children, and furthermore he had
another wife to support. his lawyer
pied.
with the aid Of the Little Reno
divorce ring to outwit the District
Supreme Court, Dorsey's lawyer,
Newton Donaldson, waved the Little
Reno divorce decree before Judge
Bailey and demanded "how come"
that his client had been arrested
for non-support when he had nj.
ready secured divorce in Alex
andria.
Judge Ignores Divorce. a
Judge Bailey waived the decree
aside, declaring II was invalid,
and that Dorsey was guilty of con-
tempt of Court and ordered him
sent jail pending payment Of the
back maintenance for Dorsey's two
Dorsey was given until 10 O'Clock
this morning to get the back pay
or 60 to jail. He appeared at the
appointed time and upon payment
OF the maintenance was rcleased.
When asked by Times reporter
II he was one OF the 12s regular
roomers In Mrs. Baggett.s nine.
room house Dorsey declared he was.
How did you sleep7" he was
asked.
"wen, to tell you the truth, /
don't think that we all slept there.
I never saw but three or four peo.
pie there the whole time
When discharged from the court
Dorsey declared he was going to
look up" Charles Henry Smith,
who secured the divorce for him.
ITS . fine mess," he declared,
81 don't know whether I'm married
or not, and n 50 whether I've got
one or two wives. All ] know b
that Il cost me S160 for Smith and
$50 for Mrs. Baggett. and that I
wss told that the divorce ssouA ha