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Show EXCKEDl.VOLV QtTlt;K-fi5f R I Cnn I' There wasl-wh8loT.houeful -of women and any number cilanxfoiu looking men In Judie ' TVkey( court room yesterday iftetti'oon.' Oil women, young womesseotorediwf, men and bleached bJoml wpmen.iI were there; and there jWaillkowIse" a good-sized crew of Tawycrs, tae' pockets of every one ofwlilclt ltte were bulging vrith'UwJArationi k-the k-the villainy of humanilyj t ,wk dlvorveday. ,, . ' While tho attorneys uarani'ed the women lalked-Tliiy'exchangea seml-itidlbie hiitoritsfiorJtbeirqda: mesUc troubles and tyuishow 'yJieir men"haddtcelved,peais. Bl-,nud by the discussioLS grew too warm. "This tilk mu.fifo" cailed-JudgeValkeJey,Vernly.i cailed-JudgeValkeJey,Vernly.i llTbls is no' whispering gatleryv Oa, pn Sfrt swilzler, with your,,mpton. Mnr Switzler went on, and'Ini n ttfefstd ties legan. vA u t Julia Jicktou wai called tofaon swer flrt, but IiH!tlld..no, WtJ dpencer Jackson ca.me"to tWI1 hia tory. Spencer Is a"co!oret-man. and was minted IttAttlilFOtCIn Ib32. In ISsS Julia w.enfc witli'sfn-other witli'sfn-other colored man tOiICaiaj City, and, be has heard lotblng of'Jier since. Hamilton Xvans, another colored rain, told the tale1 or Julia's Infi Jcllty and Jackson's good behs-vlor behs-vlor as an old friend of tho family. "Take your writt" said thejuge. Time, four minutes. Tho next case was thator Lottlo LInney against William U. Kinuev. Mrs. Klnu,ey came forward with her witness, a young woman with a laby In her arms. The two were married In Council Bluffs in 1S57. Kinney formed a liablt ol coming homo lull of liquids nu J. building bruises on her person, because her mother moved in on the- floor cJbove them. He said he would txt live under the tamo roof as his mother-In mother-In law. William likewise choked her and broke furniture with her. Ho then deserted fair, but came bick at intervals to beat her. Rosa Hall, a sister of Mr. Kinney, told a story of the same kind. Ittuney, a foreman at the smelting works, did not defend. ' 7 aranted,"salif tho Judge. Time, fl,ve minutes and twenty-elgbt seconds. sec-onds. Paul Thomseu , against -Marcn Thomsen came next., itewasmar-fiedln itewasmar-fiedln Chicago ln'lS(i)."",HeaIways made from $1 to"$?ii diyi hut thU was not enough-tasaUtfjr her, and she did not giro bltn,t,nuigh to tat, although he wa possetaed of a pro fuscnppctlte. She HkewHe, clubbed him. Possessed of great patience, Mr. Thomsen hopeil as she grew older the would-gtover tfhls, but she has not. J.u. agreement was signed whereby litf trauirerred nil his personal "property; farm Implements, Imple-ments, and the hkevtojier in lieu of alimony. Jdr.,,ThomKn was allowed nls carpenter tools and S23 as his share of Uie"wreck, I. Thoruten agreeiflg'ti keep the children. This vras at Whiting, Kan. It was ".case-of, "Betsey aud I are out," aud when Thomsen went to klsajiia bllildfen goodby ahe called upon them to-splt ujon him. The attorney i:i questioning the younger wlttato, asked if the woman was a Kood u)fe,-and was Interrupted by thujedcer 'That Is something tho witness may not be an expert in the management man-agement of a wife. Xieafo that to the court." . Tho question rose as towbttber the agreement did not separate the two, andrhsli Thomson cjime back to settle upjnSttB-fiTS?? did he not becomf.a.tr-atiel . "Why cot leavd them there?" the Jude InnuTrrM "6t "riace. And be declined to glvctthu divorce im-mediately, im-mediately, but will call It again. Lucinda Freeman pgalmt George A. Freeman was tbe next case. Mr. Freeman did net come In. Tive years ago they separated, aud since then he has contributed nothing to hertupport. Mr. Freeman's tUter, Mrs- I'-irfcer, corroborated the tale, and so did a second jcung woman who acted as witness. Mr. Freeman Free-man caught hit divorce iu eight minutes. A minute later Jlrs. Freeman, having bee u so thoroughly dl vorred, aprored Iu a neighborly way to help out a friend, Mrs. Hattie Henderson. Hen-derson. Orvilh) A. Henderson did not care to defend liUcase. Mrs. Hcndtrson sild her Mmsband had im uer w live wan another woman. Her divorce cameft6 her lu seven minutes, as one of Henderson's former for-mer coinpaulons testified joint blank to the truaut husband living nRh another wiman. Vouiig Jim Keltiy then called up his first dMrlct court ease. It was an action brought by Etta W. Frohm to secure separation from her husband, William J. Frohm. Mr. Frohm was, pRtured a a person per-son with a fierce- and ungoernablo temper, which he ued upon Jier. Onco hotruck her so severely as to put her to bed for four month. Onco agaiuheu'edaslovc poker on her when she asked 'him to rock the baby. A pretty JllUe girl nametl Carbon wasMrFrohm'stuppoit. ing witness. Jim won his firn case In eleven m Inn tci Minnie Htrr7f- rami, nni tn i. n about Frcderlcb Herrley, who did not come to law.,Mrs. Herrley savs her husbiui tdrink, fights, and kre?sa'M?,Tolvi', ftboTO bis bed to ulnlllIgher. HolikewUehas a disease f jFturaing tho house over and dh!oca!Jnghe tltchen utensils. uten-sils. Further, huexpressed a desire to keep his molller-in-law out of the houc, fo-break herncck, and to throw hefovcr the fence. Mr. Herrley 's-znottur came In to tell wbatsiicvknew. Sheea.d she fer-stayneii fer-stayneii EnglMi better than she spoke it 'and lllrd Waki.lr. M. stenograpm!r,'.was ready to behevo it. It was xaiu to attempt to stent the Ilow of English-German eloquence, elo-quence, an I he gave it up. "I dont think we need spendany more time," said tho Judge, "rhere's proof 'enough for hair a dozen divorces." The lime, was not good, Uie handicap handi-cap In tbd'way of language being too great; It was fourteen minutes seventeen seconds. An old gray person, named William Wil-liam L. Ilattey, came up then to tell of his trouble with lib wife, Jane L. Battey. Thej-were mtrrfed In Connecticut Jn 1S-J, aud lived to-gethtTDtbirljwo to-gethtTDtbirljwo years. In ISS7 sheiefpilirarnl not liking a farm career. Ha has never seen her since. He was given a divorce on the ground of desrrtlon. "Time, seventeen rnluutcs. Mrs. Sarah A. Hlrcher took a divorce from John A. Hir-her, on the ground of desertion. In four minutes, the best time of tho aficr-noon. aficr-noon. Omaha HcrW Herald. |
