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Show PAYS DEBT FOR DIVORCED WIFE A. F. Siiunricrs Learns That Docs Not Satisfy Alimony Claim. BAIRD'S MARRIAGE TIE SEVERED AFTER ONE YEAR She Objects to Being Treated Like She Was Hired , Girl. i i That payment or medical, doctor and other like bills does not constitute payment pay-ment of alimony unless cuch payment Is made upon request, was a. rule lnld down Friday by District Judge Moifo In the ease of Cora 13. Saunders against Arthur F. Saunders, cited In to fihow why he shouldn't bo adjudged In contempt for falluro to pay alimony. When IVIrs. Saunders oblolned a divorce di-vorce nome timo ago she was given I lie custody of the two minor children. S.ln a month alimony and 5f0 attorney fees. Tn the Inst three months Saunders, who is a stair builder, had paid for Tdra, Saunders's benefit something like $145. 310 more than he would have been ro-qulrcd ro-qulrcd to give her aa alimony, but ?30 or ?fi0 of thin was paid not to Mra. Saundcra direct nor al Iit request, but to her doctor and druggist for services performed per-formed and medicines furnished in the illness or iUrs taundra aim ner eiuer child, Saunders duductlng each month tho amount so paid out from tho monthly alimony payment. Judge florae ruled thai this, technically, technical-ly, did not constitute it payment of tho alimony, but held that tinder the exigencies exigen-cies of tlio case the payment on medical and doctor bills would bo allowed to apply ap-ply on tho alimony and purge Saunders of any contempt. Hereafter, though, .Saunders must pay tho alimony in cash directly into Airs. Saimdera's hands unless un-less she directs him to pay bills with it. Goes Homo to Mamma. Jt was a case of too much mother-in-law in the case of Annie J. airalnst lly-rum lly-rum Baird. Balrd. so Mrs. Uaird said, wouldn't consent that Ihey should make their homo with her mother, and when they -went to live wllh bin mother hla folks slighted her, treating her Jike a hired girl, and when they went lo make their home :it her brother-in-law's house Balid wouldn't let her go to visit her mother. Once she visited her mother and Iiaird threatened to leave her. sho said. Afler the Ualrds had made si hired girl out of her for four or five days, she went home to mnmimi. she said. Mrs. Ralrd way granted a divorce, Ihe custody of the child. $10 a month all-' inony, S2Ji attorney fees and restored to j her maiden name, Johnson. Tho divorce ! came a year to a day after marriage Thomas S. Gunn, a. member of the Alur-1 ray baseball team, appeared In response to an order lo show why he shouldn't be adjudged guilty of contempt for failure fail-ure to pay his divorced wife 5f a month alimony for tho support of a minor child. Mrs. tlunn secured the divorce in December Decem-ber of 1U0S, and It dcvelopod that bolh have remarried. The court said that ho would entertain an application to set aside (lie order, but inasmuch as no such application had been made. Gunn would bo ordered to pay $10 for the support of tho child by October 28. Only $13 has boon paid on the alimony. When the Omnia wore divorced, Gunn took the boy ami Mrs. Gunn the girl. Final Decrees Awarded. Final decrees wore granted as follows: L. H. T,atlmer from Lulu E. Latimer; Pessle M. Ma ban from John A. Mahan. Brigham Clegg, who procured for Mrs. Marv I'.. Fryman Fcguson, now dead, a diorte from Robert I.croy Ferguson, about tvo yearn ago, with an order for S.'iO attorney fees, said that only 5 had been paid on, the attorney fees and asked for and procured an order restraining John Tapp, a brother-in-law of Ferguson, Fergu-son, from paying Sll be owes him until it can be determined if this money can be applied on tho attorney fees. Caleb A. Pickett plended epilepsy and temporarily escaped paying ttula. B. Pickett temporary alimony. Pickett paid that his ailment keeps him from obtaining obtain-ing employment. The case will bo heard again next week, the court saying that Pickett was not quite open and frank in his testimony. Archibald S. Illgham, an cx-convlcl. told Judge Morso that ho had been allowing al-lowing wages to apply on account:, nnd tho court told him that he. had "been paying pay-ing his debts with the money of his divorced di-vorced wife, but that he would not punish him tills time. Hereafter, though, he must givo Mrn. Illgham tho full monthly permanent alimony. , "The other half you may apply on your debts If you desire. ' said the court. Illgham had $10. half of which he offered of-fered lo give Mrs. Jllgham then, but alio refused to take it from his hands, and he spread it out on the table, asking the iourl to adjudicate tho matter, but Judge Morse refused lo be drawn Into UiIp pharn of the controversy. Mis. Illgham and her attorney finally divided the money between them. Clarlnrla Robinson waa granted a di. vorce fioin Wnltcr Pobinson, on the ground of non-support. They were married mar-ried al Monroe, January 114. ISP I. |