The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-23
SAYS WIFE WAS
|. MARRIED BEFORE
John Soucutti's Wife Al
ready Had Husband, He
Tells Judge.
MARRIED TOO SOON
Judge Belden Grants Annul-
ment to Disillusioned
Husband Here.

After being married for fourteen
months it must be exceedingly dis
illusioning to discover that the wife
is still married to another in the eyes
of the law. And it was disillusion-
ment plus in the case of John Sou
cutti, who on Tuesday was granted
an annulment of his marriage bonds by
Judge E. B. Belden in circuit court.
John Soucutti was married to Jean
cite Demeuse on May 10, 1928, at
Waukegan. He had married her in
good faith, he told the court, believ-
ing that she had never been married
before. Only July 10, 1924, Soucutti
learned that his own marriage to
jeanette was void, because she had
just been divorced from one Arthur
Charon at Menominee, Mich, a month
befor che had married her in Wauke-
gan. In the eyes of the law, there
before he had married her in Wauke-
the statutes say that there can be no
re-marriage within a period of one
year following the granting of a
divorce.
Was a Henpecked Man.
As if this would not fill his cup of
woe, Soucutti continued to relate how
Mrs. Soucutti always demanded his
entire pay check each week and that
it was only after the most heart
reading appeal that he was able to
have for himself the little money he
needed for personal expenses. Sou
cutti insisted that he was a peaceful
man at heart, and always gave in
to his wife ''to avoid trouble and
dissension."
In his complaint the plaintiff de-
manded that the marriage between
himself and Mrs. Soucutti be annuled
and that his home and the household
goods in the home at 854 Racine aven-
ue be left in his name and in his pos
session. There are no children.
Mrs. Soucutti presented an answer
in the case. She denied that Mr.
Soucutti had no knowledge of her
previous marriage to Charon in Michi-
gan. She alleges that she told him
and it was on his advice and sugges-
tion that the two were married in
Waukegan in May of 1923.
First Husband Gave Her $500.
She admitted that her first husband
settled with her with a cash award
of 5000 and that with that money she
purchased an automobile. The answer
also asked that Mrs. Soucutti-whose
right to the name was in question
be given the home and the household
possessions at 854 Racine avenue.
Judge Belden granted the annul-
ment, but demurred on the property
stipulations. The value of the house
hold goods in the home was appraised
at about $500 and after a conference
between attorneys for the plaintiff
and the defendant jeanette Demeuse
was given a cash consideration of $25
and the case was ordered closed.
Judge Belden was called upon to
hear another divorce case in circuit
court on Tuesday afternoon when
Henry T. Sublisky and Stella Sub
lisky, his wife, sought to have their
marriage ties severed.
The Subliskys were married in
Marion, Iowa, on July Is, 1915, and
for the past five years have made their
home in Kenosha where the husband
has been employed as a motion picture
operator. The first action for divorce
was filed by, Mrs. Sublisky but the
divorce was granted to the defendant
on his counter-claim.
Sublicky charged that his wife was
frequently and constantly in the COM
pany of other men and that on one
occasion she had left note on his
dresser admitting indiscretions and
mentioning the names of the men in
volved The defendant also charged
that his mother-in-law was constantly
nagging him and that she encouraged
her daughter in the acts which broke
up their home.
Subliskly agreed to pay his wife
the sum of $500 in cash to be held in
trust by A. B. Ames, divorce counsel,
and to be dispersed in the latter's
best judgment. The maiden name
of Stella De Yeti was restored to
the plaintiff.