THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1919.
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SOLDIERS RUSH
TO DIVORCE MILL,
RECORDS SHOW
Judge Day Says Many Hasty
Marriages Made a Request
of Wife to Get Allotment.
An extraordinary "epidemic" of
divorce is raging in Omaha. It was
reflected in the filing of 25 petitions
for diyorce in the district court of
Douglas county on Monday and
Tuesday of this week. This was the
largest number of divorce suits filed
in any two days, clerks in the dis
trict court asserted.
In the same two days only 22
marriage licenses were issued by
Marriage License Clerk Stubben
dorf.. District Judge Day granted eight
divorces in the two days, and six
were granted by other judges, sit
ting in divorce court.
"I- received a letter a short time
ago asking whether we had noticed
a large number of 'soldier divorces'
here," said Judge Day. "I replied
that we had not, but since that time
I have had an extraordinary number
of this kind oi divorce suits. It
seems that the hasty marriage wasl
made in many cases at the request
of the wife and with a view to draw
ing the allotment of $30 a month for
the ordinary soldier.
"Separation of months has shown
the couples that they had nothing in
common anS in some cases perhaps
has made unsuccessful marriages
which would have been successful if
the parties had remained together.
"In some cases the wife claims to
have had a positive aversion to her
husband. Some have written to
their husbands while they were sfill
in the service and' told them in so
many words that they did not care
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If people could see what this
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would be a flood of contributions.
Every cent goes to buy either milk
or ice for the little ones who can
get it in no other, way.
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FICE. .It, will be acknowledged in this
column. '
Previously acknowledged . .$317.55
Marjorie Hiller 1.00
Richard Hiller 1.00
Dr. D. T. Quigley 5.00
Total .... ... ....... ...$324.55
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for them and . hoped never to see
them again."
However, the great majdrity of
divorce suits now being filed are
those of couples who have been
married since before the war. Judges
and others attribute it partly to the
high cost of living and partly to the
general feeling of unrest that per
vades the world.
Indian Must Serve Jail
Sentence on Murder Charge
United States Attorney. T. S. Al
len yesterday received word from
Washington that the ruling of the
federal court in the case of Silas L.
White, Indian, tried in Omaha last
year, charged with shooting with
intent to kill Charles Peabody, an
other Indian, had been upheld by
the United States supreme court.
White was sentenced to a year and
a day imprisonment in the federal
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth,
but appealed the case to the supreme
court on the grounds that he was a
resident -of an Indian reservation
and the court here had no jurisdic
TESTIMONY OF
POLICE OFFICER
IS CONFLICTING
Sergeant Thestrup, Who Led
Squad That Raided the
Purucello Home, Is Only
' - Witness Called. ' '
Anton Purucello, 804 Pierce street,
whose home was invaded by the po
lice morals squad and himself and
wife subjected to physical violence,
at 3 a. m. July 6, was placed on trial
yesterday in police court charged
with unlawful possession of liquor.
Barely able to walk, and assisted
by friends, he limped into the court
room. His face shows-yet the beat
ing received at the hands of the po
licemen. (
Mrs. Purucello is still confined to
her bed with nervous hysteria as a
result of the invasion and attack.
Thestrup Only Witness.
Sergt, Olaf V. Thestrup was the
only witness yesterday. He led,
the squad which forced its way
into the home without a warrant.
He described the alleged pur
chase of whisky to Oscar Cain, who
accompanied Herdzina, Thestrup
and other officers to the house.
Cain is not employed by the city.
The question of the invasion of
the home without search warrant
was not brought out at the hearing.
Thestrup's testimony was con
flicting and at times bordered on
incoherency.
He described the alleged assault
Purucello and his wife made on
him.
"Where were you?" asked Puru
cello's counsel.
"In the doorway."
"Where was Purucello?"
"In the doorway."
Struck With Chair.
"And Mrs. Purucello . struck at
you?"
"Yes. with a chair."
"Struck over the head of her hus
band?" "Yes."
"Then what?" " J ' . . :
"Purucello made a pass at me; I
hit him on the side of his head with
my gun; then the gun went off.
Purucello then grabbed a knife from
the kitchen table. His wife was
hanging about my legs. I tried to
shake her loose."
"Did Purucello make any motions
vnfh the knife?"
"Yes, he opened it"
The witness could not tell whether
any other motions were gone
through with the weapon, saying
simply that Purucello had tried to
kill him with it.
Several bottles of whisky, not
labeled, were introduced as evi
dence against Purucello.
.The hearing will be resumed this
morning in police court, before
Judge Fitzgerald.
Police Gve Excuses
-For Invading Home '
Of Charles McClure
Chief of Police Eberstein, Assist
ant City Attorney Mossman and
Police Detective John Herdzina of
fered their excuses to the district
court yesterday for an invasion of
the home of Charles McClure,
Dodge street, on June 7.
McClure has filed, a damage suit
against Police Commissioner Ringer,
Police Chief Eberstein, the officers
who entered the McClure home,
and Orkin Brothers for $25,000 dam
ages
He charges that the police au
thorities conspired against him and
that they entered his house with a
"liquor warrant" when in fact they
were seeking a package lost by a de
livery boy for Orkin Brothers, tie
says he has been held up to public
scandal and disgrace as a suspected
bootlegger. The police found noth
ing in the McClure home. -
Herdzina, in his answer, says he
acted under, a warrant issued by
Judge Fitzgerald. Mossman says he
had reason to believe that there was
liquor in the. McClure home and
Eberstein says the suit of McClure
does not state facts sufficient to in
volve him in it
OFFICERS JAIL
WRONG MAN ON
LIQUOR CHARGE
While Waiting for Street Car
Ernest Coy is Arrested After
Detectives Make Raid
Nearby.
An innocent bystander, waiting
for a street car, was arrested by the
police morals squad Tuesday night
immediately following a raid made
on a soft drink bar owned by Daniel
Brady, 1605 Leavenworth street,
and dragged to jail on a liquor
charge.
- The innocent bystander was
Earnest Coy, 6001 North Thirtieth
street. He was waiting at Sixteenth
and Leavenworth streets for a street
car when the morals Squad with
Sergeant Olaf Thestrup and Detec
tive John Herdzina raided Brady's
place.
A man rushed by Coy as he stood
on the sidewalk. The rush was ac
companied by a sound of breaking
glass.
The breaking glass was a whisky
bottle. Coy was dragged to jail
under protest and held until he could
furnish a bond of $100 for unlawful
possession of liquor and $25 for
breaking glass on the street. Judge,
Fitzgerald discharged him yester
day. Brady was dismissed also on a
liquor charge preferred against him.
Sergeant Thestrup said he found a
bottle of whisky under the rear
doorstep leading to Brady's place.
"I never saw Coy before," Brady
said. "I told the policemen that
Tuesday night and they took him to
jail anyhow." .
The arresting officers said Coy
dashed from the place and shat
tered the whisky bottle on the pave
ment. The fragments were intro
duced as evidence.
Wholesale Fruit Dealers ,
Hold Meeting in This City
About 25 were present at the
monthly meeting of the Nebraska
Iowa Wholesale Fruif Dealers' asso
ciation at the Hotel Fontenelle yes
terday. E. T. Scott of Lincoln,
president of the association, pre
sided. It was announced that W.
II. Young of Fremont, traffic man
ager of the association, was now on
his way to Washington along with
the representatives of other western
fruit dealers associations to petition
against arise in freight rate on re
frigerator shipments.
Special Religious Services
For Colored People Nightly
Special religious services for coN
ored people are being held nightly
this week at the Interdenomination
al People's Mission church, Twenty
sixth and Franklin streets, Rev. W.
M. Garvcr of East Des Moines, la.,
is preaching. Rev. A. Wagner, pas
tor of the Omaha church, is in
charge of the program.
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