Reichert Gets Divorce

The Wife Gets $2,000 of Alimony.

Judge Kinn's decision end of a hotly contested divorce suit which has been twice in the courts.

  The celebrated Reichert divorce case has at last been settled and John G. Reichert has been granted a divorce from his wife. Judge Kinne's memorandum of decision for the decree is as follows:

  The bill of complaint in this cause asked for a divorce on the ground of desertion.

  The proof clearly establishes the desertion and under the statutes of the state, the complainant is entitled to a decree. The desertion was open, premeditated and wilful. There is not the slightest hope of any reconciliation between the parties to this cause. The defendant is irrevocably alienated from her husband. They both appear to be persons of good moral and Christian character, bul they have drifted apart and on the part of the wife there is bitterness and hatred.

  A refusal to grant a decree in the cause and a compulsion that these parties should continue to live together would in all probability result in crime and suicide. Public scandal would follow; the peace of relatives and the community would be disturbed and sorrow and shame attend these people to their graves. All of the high purposes of married life have disappeared, and good morals and public policy sanction this divorce (the Pharisaical theologian and purist to the contrary notwithstanding).

  The young daughter, Hermina B. Reichert, should be awarded to the custody of the mother, by her to be supported, with the right of the father at seasonable times and places to visit the child.

  Although the wife in this cause is the offending party in the case, yet she is entitled to some alimony, but in a less amount than if she were the innocent party.

  The evidence discloses that during their married life the husband received $500 of her patrimony. This should be restored to her. In addition thereto, she should receive the sum of $1,500; thus aggregation a payment in cash within 30 days of $2,000. The household goods which were delivered to her at her former home this morning she will retain as her own property and accept the same as an amicable division of household property.

  The foregoing provisions and payments will be secured by her in full discharge of alimony, rights of dower and all interest of every name and nature in the property of her husband and in extinction of all claims of any nature whatsoever against him. The decree will be entered without costs to either party as against the other.