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Show FIVE FREED FROM MARITAL 8013 Divorces Offset Run of Weddings. Majority of the Litigants Married at Immature Age. Habitual Drunkenness and Desertion .tho Usual Causes for Seeking Legal Separation. Enough divorces' wero granted by Judgo Morso yesterday to make up amply for tho great number of marriages that havo taken place this week. Five unhappy couples wore released from their lrksomo bonds. Ten happy people aro now freo to go around and commit somo more matrimonial matri-monial errors. As usual the' majority of the cases aro thoso of people who have married at an Immature age. In somo cases two months wcro sufficient, in others several years wcro necessary to wolto tho peoplo up to their error. Stella. Stephens obtained a release from George Stephens because of hl3 habitual drunkonness. The plaintiff complained and tho evidence established tho fact that ho was In tho habit of coming homo In a stnto of "beastly Intoxication." Coiiho-quently Coiiho-quently ho failed to support his wife. They wero married In this city In June, 1S9S. Laura J. Brown obtained a decrco on tho ground that her husband, Leonard P. Brown, was a fugitive from Justice and had deserted her In April, It is be lieved that tho defendant had another wlfo 3tlll living and not divorced. They wcro married in this city In September, 10(13. In tho following April, Mrs. Brown was abandoned and found that her husband hus-band was running away to escape arrest. She Is awarded tho custody of their child and allowed to resume her maiden namo of Laura J. Golns. Anna Meiers Strcckllng also obtained a reloaso. Sho was married In April, 1SSS. to Carl F. E. Streckllng In romeranla. Germany. Ger-many. In Juno of the same year he deserted de-serted his wlfo and his whereabouts havo been unknown ever since. Sho Is allowed to resume her maiden namo of Anna Melors. Jclina M. Byrne was deserted. Sho was married to Thomas Byrne In Park City In Juno, 1S93. As usual, ono of tho plaintiffs Is tho husband. hus-band. John Fisher got a decrco from Margaret Flshor for desertion. Thov were married at La Crosse, "Wis., In February, IStC. |