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DIVORCE MILL IN OPERATIONThree Couples Legally Separated By Process of Circuit CourtLast Week, ||iThree divorces were granted during the first week of the January term of«lt;: f-the circuit court of Bureau County in;/,. , . xMr ;eases pending on the chancery docket.Tlie first was in the ease of Mary Ferrari vs. James Ferrari of Cherry. Mrs. Ferrari secured a degree on a cross bill filed in the divorce suit brought by her husband against her on Nov. 14 last Adultery was the ground on which Ferrari brought his case. Joseph Gent a. a boarder in the Ferari home being men tioned as one of several with whom Mrs. Ferrari was too intimate to suit her husband. The defendant retainedAttorney Walter A. Panneek of LaSalleand filed nn answer to the bill in whichshe denied the charge and claimed that Ferrari had deserted her without any cause after committing several acts of cruelty towards her and for a long time had failed to support her. Ferrari had obtained an injunction restraining her from preventing him from removing his belongings from their home and from destroying the same, and also from leav ing the county with their two children. Louis, aged seven, and Margaret, agedtwo, of whom lie desired to secure the custody. In her answer his wife denied that she threatened to do any of these things and that there was anv necessity for an injunction. On her petition Ferrari was required to pay her temporary alimony and $25 solicitor’s foes. I inter Mrs. Ferrari filed a cross-bill in 'which she alleged that they were married on August 1, 1908 and that since that time she has always demeaned herself properly towards her husband. She charged that Ferrari has been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty towards her and on numerous occasions has struck, beaten, kicked and choked her, and called her vile names. She says that onOct. 1, 1915. he struck her a violent blow in the head and as a result thereof she was laid up for two months, and tlmt in May 1915 he struck her and draged her around the house by the hair of her head. She also declared that before marrying her he represented tint he was well fixed financially, bur that she found after the wedding -that he was not, but was deeply in debt and worthless and that he compelled her to keep eight boarders at Ladd for a long time and since their residence in Cherry she has kept seven boarders, doing all the work involved in conducting a boarding house, while he took the money gained thereby. She alleged that with this money he had paid for the residence horptofVre occupied bythem in Cherry which is worth about$1000 and asks that the same and thehousehold furniture be awarded to herby the court and Ferrari compelled toI pay permanent alimony. Ferrari fiteino answer to the cross-bill and was do* faulted, Bv the terms of the decree however he was awarded the homestead while she was given the household furniture and the custody of the two children. He was given the right to visit item during the daytime on anv• »L t i Vdays that he desires. An award of*9r,o in full payment of all claims foralimony and for dower and homestead!1in the premises where they live was decreed to be paid to Mrs. Ferrari, and j she was required to vacate the house by February 1. Tt is fought that nr-j rangenients were made belSwecti the'|nnrties for a divorce and settlement onfhis basis. The case was disposed ofTuesday.
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De Pue Leader
De Pue, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 12, 1917
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