Lived Together Only A Month

BUT THAT WAS SUFFICIENT TO ENTITLE WIFE TO DIVORCE

On the Ground of Cruelty---An Ypsilanti Divorce Case

Judge Kinne granted a divorce Monday in minutes which can be expressed with one figure. The parties concerned are residents of Ypsilanti and the case was not contested. Elizabeth Barringer was granted a divorce from Philip Barringer to whom she was married in December, 1902. She left him on the first of January following, having lived with him nearly a month. Barringer is a telephone lineman and was given a hard reputation by his girl wife, who was granted a divorce on the ground of cruelty. The wife swore that her husband, during the honeymoon month they lived together, struck her, called her all sorts of vile names and left her with even worse afflictions. Her mother, Mrs. Lawrence, swore to practically the same things. No other witnesses were sworn although there were others present to testify on the wife's side of the case.

The woman seemed scarcely more than seventeen or eighteen years of age. Judge Kinne asked her why she married such a man. She said she did not know he was the kind of a man he proved to be although she had been acquainted with him three years previous to her marriage.