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Show DECLINES y TO LEAVE Mrs. Watkins Says Her Divorced Husband Refuses Re-fuses t Go Away. b ' . . .kJ Although divorced. It is sal4 that B. F. Watkins refuses to leave hia wife or his. home , at 320" South Eighth "West street, Mrs. Zlna Watkins, who secured v ' a decree of divorce from Watkins in Judge Armstrong court yesterday afternoon, af-ternoon, declared this morning that hef husband refuses to leave. Last evening after returning from court, Mrs. Watkins asserts that her divorced husband came home and that she waa obliged to leave the nous to evade, him. Watkins is a civil engt-aeer engt-aeer and at one time had a good business. busi-ness. In court yesterday Mrs. Watkins charged her husband with drunkenness, drunk-enness, cruelty and non-support. She averred that on numerous . occasions her husband had choked, I beat, pinched and kicked her. On one occasion, she alleged, Watkins chaaed her out onto the front porch in her ' night robe and that she was obliged to . A ' stand on the stone steps with her bare feet. Later she sought shelter at a neighbor's house. ' The couple were married August 17, 1902.' Mrs. Watkins averred that she did not know that bier husband used liquor until three months after they were married. Since then she averred he has been sober but five days each -tnonth. Mrs. .Watkins Is also the divorced wife of William R. Lambert, to whom he waa married twenty-two years ago. |