New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1924, Page 3

143 DIVORGES N 4 DAYS N RHODE IS, Unbappy Marriages Easily Ter- minated in Neighboring State —— BY ALEXANDER HERMAN NEA Service Staff Writer | Providence, R. I, Jan. 11.-—Rhode | Island, small as it s, v to| back any state off divorce-seekers’ paradise It has already established {tself in. | disputably as the Reno of the Wast. | And now it is attracting a large num- ber of western stage and film folk, bent on an easy divorce, Minta Durfee, wife of “Fatty" Ar-| buckle, got her divorce here recently. §n did Mrs. Lowell Sherman, wife of the stage and screen star. Pearl White is reported to have | established residence here, although her representatives say she is now in Paris. In the first four days of the new session of -the superior court, 161 petitions for divorce were heard, of | office. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1924, positions' in divorce cases is being prepared for enactment by the legis- lature. Tt is recommended by Gover- nor Flynn. “If the legislature adopts recommendations which T says the governor, “it will check the misuse of Rhode Island courts as an instrument for securing divoree.” And . legislators of both parties agree with him The operations.of this sald to be nation-wide “Tt works simply,” an investigator explaineds “Through its New York econnection. or some othér, the group gets its clients to come to this state, “Then after the residence re quirements is fulfilled, the ecase is filed in’ court, and an order obtained for the taking of the testimony by a Master in Chancery. the ring are “Thete are some 50.0f these in the | lawyer has the to the one he state, and the privilege of going chooses. “This master, acting for the court, takes the testimony of the petitioner and the two witnesses in his own The master dnes not pass on the merits of the case, as does a referee in other states He merely records the testimony “This then is neatly typed, whipped into legal form. sealed and sent to one of the justices handling the At vorce cases He reads the testl. made,* | which 143 were granted immediate- | mony and makes his decision 1y and 18 were held up for later de-| “And the decision is for cision! |Htioner in practically every case Among the latter was the case of | Nina Wileox Putnam, noted author appear in court They go on with Whose petition for divorce from |thelr own affairs, often outside the Robert J. Sanderson, was first | state Tsually the lawyer's word is granted, and then vacated, when | taken for the residence of his client. charges were made that she hadn't|And the whole thing is a simple, been a resident of the state for the |palnless process—and very required two years. 4lnr the law » Divorce Easy | Btate officials, court justices and It was the spotlight of publieity leading lawvers in this city shrug thrown on this case that 1is now their shoulders when asked about the | throwing a.new light on the evils of |Ting | the easy Rhode Island divoree. | "There have been intimations of a For iIn this state the grounds of crooked ring trying to put over easy divorce are many, ranging from the divorces” says Superior Court Justice usual statutory offense to neglect and | Chester W. Rarrows. who heard the refusal to support for a vear. And|Nina Wilcox Putnam case But 2ll that Is required for starting an|there has been nothing more action is a residence in the state of Tf ever two years [1ze, this court will be one of the firat Under the deposition plan, by t0 take action The difficulties that which the petitioner merely swears 8TiSe in this state are the difficuities to his charges in the private office |that arise in any state. 1f a person of a Master in Chancery, it Is possible |18 0ing to he crooked in his dealings, to get a divorce dee: without the |h® prebably can beat any law in the prinelpals ever going near the court|land that grants it! | “Perhaps the grounds for divores Tt is the ease with which this {g| @T® more numerous in Rhode Island done that has led to the formation than in most other states. And | of a divorce ring, lawyers, jurists and [Maybe that's why divorce here s 1egislators belleve, that is king big suppozed to be easier.” mo;-:;"ln l"“"‘fll these easy divorces, | Uniform Law Neoded othing has been proved against Would a uniforn this ring yet. But its activities are ',hm.,g‘hm.v the “rlrlvurn:‘r_\ being investigated, the situation? Governor Acts “'Of course it would,” Justice Bar A bill to eut down the use of de. rows went on But T think that divoree law help remedy | OUR ENTIRE OF FINE FURS HAS BEEN RE-PRICED TOSELL AT COST —=== All Our Luxurious Furs of Finest Quality Developed With Workmanship of Ex- quisite Finish Are Included In Our “GREATEST FUR SALE" EDW. MESHKEN the pe.| “Meanwhile the principals needn't! lucrative | these intimations ervstal. ' such a low would he difficnlt to enact. sald were | For the causes of divorce are r-Q‘Arhur\Hu and ‘the | different in so many states that it |cases |seems almost imporssible to get all “S8ometimes I have handled | states to agree on one law. irham in less than one hour “Look at South (‘arolina without “I do not think that the any grounds tor divoree at all!" |law is any more Jax in Rh H. L. Carpenter, atforney general|than it is in most other stotes | of the state, belleves that part of the| Sometimes the calendar | laxity is due to the courts [ crowded with such actions “The courts,” he says, "do not!|is because the court lets cases | serutinize thoroughly enough.!pile up for long periods and then | They should be more rigid in de- | cleans them all out about four times | termining the residence period a vear. “As to the Divorce Ring—all “As for the talk about a can do about it now is wonder."” Is only talk, as far as T know One of the leading attorneys| But whether i is only talk handling divoree matters is | P. Dougherty | movedent started in Washington to “I'guess 1 handle more cases than|get a uniform marriage and divoree any other lawyer in the state” he law throughout the country All Through the Night “Araogg them Lowell 20 of divorce seems Rut that the cases we Ring—it it is Police of Philadelphia, having heen given an ultimatum by the new safety director, Brig. 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