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mat its mamafi was void was I (Continued on Page 2, CoL 1)tk.0hs0 1 •erndccdMrs. B. DavisGiven DivorceBy LULA JONES GARRETTMrs. Blanche Moore Davis of. 1301 Myrtle Avenu? obtained a divorce in the Baltimore circuit court from hcc husband. J. Steward Davis, Thursday, still refusing, aft:r ten years, to believe that the once prominent lawyer is dead. The decree was granted following charges of abandonment and the custody of the three children, Margaret Suzanne, now 17, and Blanche M., 12, both of whom were tots when their father left, went to the mother.• Never Reached OfficeIt was on the morning of April 1S« 1929, that Mr. Davis, one of th: most promising and brilliant of the young members of the bar association, political leader and socialite, left his home for his offices't 215 St Paul Street, to be seen no more by his family or friends.He never arrived at his offices.A telegram received by his wife th8t day said that he had been called out of town on business.An investigation showed that he had registered at- the 135th Street branch of the New York YMCA, had spent the night there and checked out the next rooming.The trail ended there.May be AliveRumors that he had been seen in the West, that h? has been s:cn in Canada, that he went to France, have never resulted in any tangible evidence that Mr. Davis is still alive.It was believed by many that loss of practice through an illness with a broken leg. financial straits and the expected loss of his mad-Isoa Avenue home drove him to suicide in some manner in which(Omtiam* m Psfs *, Co*. 7)iananhe:thlt;ScRlt;JuwlpoofRtlatbillitaclof\01
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Mar 18, 1939
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