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nti on which ho is standing also will ogists say. (Central Press)N ELOPERS’CARSTO BE HALTEDaterm- I CHICAGO. Aug. 16.— Crashing of ! Crown Point marriages continued ^ ' yesterday at a one-day pace with T0 the filing of a divorce nil! by Roy E. Deers, commission man at theastock yards.ot-rstinid- j His action brought the week's score on Crown Point nuptials to two divorce bills and four annulment suits.’nr , Concerned over this epidemic of rn unhappy endings. Sheriff John To--be j m;in announced he was determined i to prevent at least those elopments ;he which had their inspiration in a :he bottle.ter i I have instructed the county j highway police to scrutinize all mo-i torists crossing the state line or. *s . roads leading to Crown Point.” he _ said. ‘‘If they show signs of drunk-ias j enness. they will be arrested.It would be better to serve ten days for .'.riving while intoxicated than to drive on to a life sentence which might be regretted forever.The drinking of which Deets complained was not before the marriage . but afterward.I His wife is Mrs. Florence Deets m of the Crest hotel, 672S Stony is-I Y land avenue. Both are 40.Deets' attorney. Thomas J. Kerrigan, said the couple had known each other but a short time before thov were united at the In-•diana Gretna Green.He thought it. was a case of love at first sight. Kerrigan explained. But he was mistaken.”AMrs. Deets. according to her husband's bill, hit his arm. threw pep-1 nor in his eves and threatened himSO-with a knife. She has used liquor ^ • to excess continually since the0 j elopement, June 20, 1936, hecharged.;s\V.theortcs-:litLip-VihmsTo- PCDMAi! Di AliC
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Hammond Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Mon, Aug 16, 1937
Page 71
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