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Show LESSON ON V00D00ISM. Chicago Police Judge Hears Divorco Case in Which Black Art Figured. CHICAGO, Feb. 5. Is it cruelty for a wife who comes "from Nw Orleans to put a "voodoo spell" upon her husband? This was one of tho questions Judge Dunne had to decide In the case of double charges of cruelty between Alexander Rowans, a policeman, who has but one arm with which to defend himself against "charms.'' and his wife, who trios to weave them. Mrs. Rowans camo from way down South to Chicago a few years ago, and she known all about spells and Incanta" lions. Sho knows so much about them that sho got a policeman, with a star and a new uniform, for a husband before sho had been hore a year. But Mrs. Rowans found her charms nnd spells less efficient after marrlpge than before Still, a voodoo was a voodoo, and, her husband says, sho began to put her faith as well as a strange smelling mixture mix-ture Into his coffee- It worked like the gold euro In -weaning him from his coffee, but his love for her grow colder.- "I noticed a strnngo odor and a strango tasto In all that I ate," Rowans sorrowfully sorrow-fully stated. '"She niado my coffeo with a peculiar alkaline solution." And the policeman stated that he never used alkaline alka-line solutions. Twenty eager neighbors and friends waited to testify, but the Judge would hear none of them. Ho decided that neither complainant was entitled to a divorce, di-vorce, and that the charms of the voodoo voo-doo might bo given another trial |