The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-03
DON'T TELL.
COURT ALL
YOU KNOW
System Lawyer Advises How
DEGREES Can Be Secured
Speedily in Little Reno"

Speedily in Little Keno"
BY HARVEY L. COBB.
lCspyrisht, 1879, by The washinstea
Times Uompany.)
Alexandria divorce lawyers, so
daring have become their prac-
tees, actually coach their clients
against telling the truth.
A concrete example, made in
the presence Of three Times re-
porters, was the declaration Of
Oscar c. Thomas, one of Little
Reno's legal lights, who cautioned
the three supposed clients several
times against telling too much.
The less you tell me, the bet
ter Of veil both be-" he declared
several times, ~ the clients were
explaining their case to him.
Under the laws of Virginia, as
I'm every other State, the law pro-
vides that the defendants In every
suit must be notified, either by
publication, or direct modification,
or both.
Tyrieal Of Tactics.
The case ~ Thomas and the three
Times repn Il ers h cited as typical
OF the tsEt.tcs employed by the
, divorce rtrs In their treatment Of
absent defcidents and their efforts
10 cover up their cases to make
I, them appear legal on their face, yet
at the same time prosecute the suit,
without the knowledge Of the de-
! PENDANT or Of any likelihood of the
. defendants ever becoming acquainted
with the fact that he or she has
been sued.
Sense of fair play and respect as
10 the rights of the defendants has
been lost sight Of. and clients are
deliberately told that corroborative
evidence can be secured upon pay.
ment of the rings price.
Not all, however, the reader must
understand. are subject to the frail-
ties of human nature in their pur.
suit Of the dollar, gotten by greed
and corrupt practises through the
pernicious practises of the minority
of the lawyers who are growing rich
with feeding the divorce mills Of
! Virginia.
The best evidence, which cannot be
refuted, Is the court records them.
Reno's divorce lawyers, as to the
number OF divorces they have Sc
cured ..-. l..
The figures as taken from the
Little Reno corporation divorce court
records, show the foilowfngs l.
Z EOS In q Year.
Davis and Budwesky, the divorce
kings, secured 2o8 divorces, within
q period Of little over a year, almost
half of themf secured on evidence fur
nished by Mary L. Baggett. making
deposition that the party suing for
the divorce was known to her, and
had lived at her house for more than
one year.
r. B. Washington, one OF the
princes at Judge Moncure's court. ran
second with 1853 broken ties while
Charles Henry Smith, representative
to the Virginia assembly. who has
announced his oppc.sitioneto the Han
antidivorce measure in every shape,
form and fashion, comes third, with
eighty-two DEGREES.
other lesser legal lights ranked as
follows: G. z. Corgan. fifty-five; Ed
nnund Hill, jr., fifty-four; w. p.
wolls, forty nine: Smith and Woods,
forty -three; H. v. Garner, thirty.
six; r. p. Russell, twenty-five; S. q.
Booths, seventeen, and l.. p. Harlow.
nineteen.
When The Times expose began,
nany-a great many, OF Virginia's
best lawyers have declared them
selves against the divorce vice and
are taking steps to remove the
stigma from their State.
However, hundreds of cases for
divorce DEGREES are now pending.
oxher hundreds have been granted
during the year 1921, where the
marty defendants Of tire suit have
never had q chance to enter their
protest.
cases Of desertion, charges Of in.
sanity, adultery, and other causes
have been set UP as cause for action,
divorces have hbeen granted, and
clients in many cases have remar.
rted, many Of them. under the direct
declaratio OF their council that their
divorce was legal and that they were
at liberty to remarry again.
To the three Times reporters, who
went to him for one of these illegal
divorces, Oscar c. Thomas told how
divorces could be secured without
danger Of detection or knowledge by
the defendants that serious charges
were made against them and that
they were being sued for divorce.
The first link in the chain Of the
Illegal practice IL the establishment
Of "domicile" in the State OF Vir-
ginia- This is done by having false
dispositions made by Virginia people
who for ten, twenty or thirty dol