Show BOGUS CHICAGO DIVORCES Clai CHICAGO cAGo is ia noted not only for its easy divorce method by which dissenting couples can snuffle shuffle off the matri menia coil with five minutes dispatch but lor for the bogus divorces which disreputable attorneys peddle off at low rates to ignorant uncongenial and anxious husbands and ad wives these shysters shy have gone so far tn some instances as to forge the signature of a judge to the false instruments of separation it might be supposed that on discovery of such a crime the offender would receive condign pun ashment ish ment that the judge thus treated with contempt would sustain the dignity of the court and show the enormity of the deception practised practiced upon the partie litigant by inflicting the highest penal ties but in a recent case the judge whose name had been f forged to a bogus decree of div ep contented bini himself self with reprimanding anding the offend off end ia jag attorney and dis dismissing missi a th tha e wish enli a scolding as described described by i a chicago paper gt that would not have blanched the cheeks of a school boy the consequences of such shameful im positions impositions are likely to oe be ser serious laus M the e parties who suppose their relations are legally dissolve dby mar r crying ing again as they naturally au suppose pose MY they have the right to do render themselves liable to prosecution for bigamy and to brand with illegitimacy the offspring of such marriage it may be said aid the man or woman who would become a party to such an underhand proceeding ought to suffer the legal results of the wrongdoing but innocent persons are liable to suffer also from the evil and there are many persons ignorant enough of law to suppose that what a member of the bar tells them it in all right and regular is sufficient for every legal purpose the chief wrong is in the villainy of the bogus divorce peddlers whose names ought to be published that they may be pilloried in public opinion and who ought to be sent to states primon and by means of heavy flues fines be made to disgorge the profits of their tac air nefarious occupation |