Three Divorce Cases

IN ONE DAY IN THE WASHTENAW CIRCUIT COURT.

The Celebrated Reichert Divorce Case is Now On. -- The Wise Case Granted.

In the circuit court Wednesday divorce cases had full sway. James B. Wise, of Ypsilanti, was granted a divorce from his wife Clara H. Wise on the ground of extreme cruelty. She did not appear to defend the suit. He charged that she had said if anyone in the house took laudanum he would be the one and that she went out riding at night with other men and had said that she thought more of one of them than she did of him. They were married in Belleville, Feb. 27, 1893.

Raynor H. Newton, of Lima, commenced suit for divorce in the circuit court this morning from his wife Lovica Smith Newton. They were married March 14, 1861, and have had nine children of whom one is living, a daughter, aged 18, of whom the bill contains the strange statement that the father thinks she is married but that her present name is unknown to him. The complainant charges that the wife whom he married 38 years ago was cruel to him and that her manner of life rendered it impossible for him to live with her and that on July 22, 1893, he had been driven from home and into a far distant country.

The celebrated divorce case of Mrs. Catherine C. Reichert vs. John G. Reichert, of Scio, was taken up this morning and the plaintiff has occupied the stand most of the day. She charges cruelty during the last four years of their married life and the main cruelty charged seems to have been an attempt to send her to an insane asylum and her son to the reform school. Property seems to cut a big figure in the suit and the cross-examination of Attorney Lehman is particularly severe, evidently having a bearing upon the suit for alienation of affections brought by the defendant in this suit.