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Show Gains in W eight After Escaping Wife's Knife Kansas City, Mo. Following disclosures dis-closures that he had gained 40 pounds in weight since he had stopped running run-ning from a butcher knife wielded by his wife, as well as since having left her board, Harry Mitchell, a negro, was granted a divorce in the Independence Inde-pendence division of the Circuit court by Judge Willard P. Hall. Mitchell and his wife lived at 1610 Brooklyn avanue. Mrs. Mitchell threatened him with a knife, Mitchell said. "But were you always good to her?" inquired Judge Hall. "Yes, sir," Mitchell replied. "1 always al-ways was on time for meals and always al-ways kept the house warm in winter. But 1 lost weight eating her food." Mitchell said his wife's weight was 185 pounds and his 145, while they lived together. |