The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-07
DIVORCE
Each Letter of the Word
Suggests Good Reason
to Snip Marital Ties.
BY ARCH sTEINEL

NIVORCE, termed the devils
- own" by evangelistic sawdust
"stompers," enters the superior
courts room stage in the Marion
county courthouse.
She is groomed with all the care
and nicely that the best practicing
attorney can make her. Lip stick
on just so, curls tucked under her
silvered helmet hat, dress length
Svelte, and eager to tap her we'll
manicured nails on the rail near the
witness stand and say: "He never
did support me-"
The cause-there are six good
ones - in multiple. Each reason
overlaps another and suggests 9TH
ers. Here's the six offhand:
TNCOMPATIBILITY got wallop
l. in the jaw as a legal grounds
for stepping out of the marriage
arena in the courtroom of Judge
James M. Leathers, but was given
the sponge of hope as attributing
to the knockout" of the "ham-and-
egg" boxers in homes.
Joseph B. Gault, auto salesman,
charged his wife with "incompat-
ibility." His wife, Mrs. Charlotte B.
Gault, 81 North Chester, filed a
cross complaint charging abandon
ment.
"Incompatibility may exist with
out the cause of either party but it
does not make a grounds for di-
vorce," Judge Leathers held in
denying Gault's petition for a di-
vorce and granting the decree to his
wife.
WIRTUE, proverbially called ats
Y own reward" got a play in the
circuit court of Othniel Hitch, Judge
pro tenn, when a husband was
shown to have been Of harem-like
instincts in wedlock.
"They follow him, he followed
them," his wife asserted vehemently
as she waved spiritual hair-pins,
notes, and photographs in the air.
She got it-and alimony.
n
NVERLEAVE is a good A. E. F.
~ phrase, but that's what John
Blank had been for two years, his
wife testified in the court of Judge
Hitch.
Blanks mind went blank one day,
and he forgot he ever had a wife.
He's still forgetting it as far as Mrs.
is concerned. She couldn't
forget and so fearing he'd pull an
Enoch Arden, she hied to the divorce
courts for matrimonial relief.
She's free of her forgetful hus-
band and he's no longer A. w. o. L.
but he doesn't know that.
n H
ID UCKESSES were a frequent oc-
IN currence in the life Of Mrs.
Leona Knuth, she alleged in her tes-
timony against her husband in
Judge Hitch's court.
He talked sometimes and some
times he didn't" she testified.
viii you marry again if you're
divorced, Mrs. Knuth?" questioned
the judge.
"I-should-SAY-NOT-" was
the eager response.
Divorce granted"
NRUELTY after attending what
~ she testified was a supposed"
prize fight brought Mrs. Marcella
w. Kerbox, 721 College a-enue, her
decree.
Mrs. Kerbox testified she was
boxed on the head after her hus-
band, Oscar w. KerboX, had at
tended a boxing show. Disliking
the alleged boxing she received
after the boxers got through box
ing, Mrs. Kerbox filed suit to be
released from the marital box.
Judge Hitch unhitched the clasp
on the matrimonial box and Mrs.
Kerbox left the witness box freed
from her alleged boxing husband.
TNVY Of her husbands relatives
II and the ito do" he made over
his mother were the moral grounds
for Mrs. Mary Does participation
in a suit to sever wedlock with Mr..
Doe.
Doe consulted his mother, or his
sisters, every time the baby's tooth
ached, or the gas bill was due. IN
turn Mrs. Doe accused his relatives
of urging him to leave the family
domicile. The urge" got too strong
for him, she testified, and he finally
left.
Doe is done as husband and Mrs.
Doe says she's done with marriage.
And that's divorce.
Man to Tell of Monster Hunt
D. J. Angus Of the Esterline-An-