WOMAN MISSING, COURT SEVERS TIES
Wife Went Away With Another, Applicant Explains
**** *** his wife left a note saying she would return when Abraham Lasher who lives in Waverly street found that her ******and a man in the neighborhood had also disappeared, he brought an action for *** which was tried yesterday before Justice Sears in special term of supreme court. The court directed the plaintiff to prepare findings in his inter-**cutory judgment of divorce after hearing that a suit case containing the defendant’s belongings and baggage of the alleged correspondent where hauled to the railroad station the same day.
Mr. Lasher testified that he married Bertha Lasher in April, 1902. Returning home from work on April 1 last, the plaintiff said that his 16-year-old daughter handed him a note left by his wife saying she would return.
“When I found that her jewelry and clothes were gone I knew she would not return,” Lasher said. His surmise proved correct he said, for the next day he received a letter saying that she and “Shell” had gone away together.
Cora Burkowski stated that she saw Sheldon Van Atten and the Lasher home on several occasions.
William Woodbury, who lives in Waverly street, said that he hired Sheldon Van Atten to build a house opposite to the Lasher home and that on one occasion he “tiptoed” upstairs in the new house and found Van Atten with his arms around Mrs. Lasher. “They seemed to be quite loving,” witness said.
Woodbury said that on the morning that Van Atten and Mrs. Lasher disappeared the alleged correspondent asked him to take two trunks and a reed suit case to the station. The plaintiff stated that the reed suit case belonged to his wife.
Fanny Isaacs testified that she often went to visit Mrs. Lasher at her home and that Van Atten, who was also known as “Shell,” was always there.
“Whenever he saw me,” said Mrs. Isaacs, “he always began poking the fire and kept it up until I left.”
October 20, 1920
Buffalo Courier
Wife Went Away With Another, Applicant Explains
**** *** his wife left a note saying she would return when Abraham Lasher who lives in Waverly street found that her ******and a man in the neighborhood had also disappeared, he brought an action for *** which was tried yesterday before Justice Sears in special term of supreme court. The court directed the plaintiff to prepare findings in his inter-**cutory judgment of divorce after hearing that a suit case containing the defendant’s belongings and baggage of the alleged correspondent where hauled to the railroad station the same day.
Mr. Lasher testified that he married Bertha Lasher in April, 1902. Returning home from work on April 1 last, the plaintiff said that his 16-year-old daughter handed him a note left by his wife saying she would return.
“When I found that her jewelry and clothes were gone I knew she would not return,” Lasher said. His surmise proved correct he said, for the next day he received a letter saying that she and “Shell” had gone away together.
Cora Burkowski stated that she saw Sheldon Van Atten and the Lasher home on several occasions.
William Woodbury, who lives in Waverly street, said that he hired Sheldon Van Atten to build a house opposite to the Lasher home and that on one occasion he “tiptoed” upstairs in the new house and found Van Atten with his arms around Mrs. Lasher. “They seemed to be quite loving,” witness said.
Woodbury said that on the morning that Van Atten and Mrs. Lasher disappeared the alleged correspondent asked him to take two trunks and a reed suit case to the station. The plaintiff stated that the reed suit case belonged to his wife.
Fanny Isaacs testified that she often went to visit Mrs. Lasher at her home and that Van Atten, who was also known as “Shell,” was always there.
“Whenever he saw me,” said Mrs. Isaacs, “he always began poking the fire and kept it up until I left.”
October 20, 1920
Buffalo Courier
WOMAN MISSING, COURT SEVERS TIES
Wife Went Away With Another, Applicant Explains
**** *** his wife left a note saying she would return when Abraham Lasher who lives in Waverly street found that her ******and a man in the neighborhood had also disappeared, he brought an action for *** which was tried yesterday before Justice Sears in special term of supreme court. The court directed the plaintiff to prepare findings in his inter-**cutory judgment of divorce after hearing that a suit case containing the defendant’s belongings and baggage of the alleged correspondent where hauled to the railroad station the same day.
Mr. Lasher testified that he married Bertha Lasher in April, 1902. Returning home from work on April 1 last, the plaintiff said that his 16-year-old daughter handed him a note left by his wife saying she would return.
“When I found that her jewelry and clothes were gone I knew she would not return,” Lasher said. His surmise proved correct he said, for the next day he received a letter saying that she and “Shell” had gone away together.
Cora Burkowski stated that she saw Sheldon Van Atten and the Lasher home on several occasions.
William Woodbury, who lives in Waverly street, said that he hired Sheldon Van Atten to build a house opposite to the Lasher home and that on one occasion he “tiptoed” upstairs in the new house and found Van Atten with his arms around Mrs. Lasher. “They seemed to be quite loving,” witness said.
Woodbury said that on the morning that Van Atten and Mrs. Lasher disappeared the alleged correspondent asked him to take two trunks and a reed suit case to the station. The plaintiff stated that the reed suit case belonged to his wife.
Fanny Isaacs testified that she often went to visit Mrs. Lasher at her home and that Van Atten, who was also known as “Shell,” was always there.
“Whenever he saw me,” said Mrs. Isaacs, “he always began poking the fire and kept it up until I left.”
October 20, 1920
Buffalo Courier
Wife Went Away With Another, Applicant Explains
**** *** his wife left a note saying she would return when Abraham Lasher who lives in Waverly street found that her ******and a man in the neighborhood had also disappeared, he brought an action for *** which was tried yesterday before Justice Sears in special term of supreme court. The court directed the plaintiff to prepare findings in his inter-**cutory judgment of divorce after hearing that a suit case containing the defendant’s belongings and baggage of the alleged correspondent where hauled to the railroad station the same day.
Mr. Lasher testified that he married Bertha Lasher in April, 1902. Returning home from work on April 1 last, the plaintiff said that his 16-year-old daughter handed him a note left by his wife saying she would return.
“When I found that her jewelry and clothes were gone I knew she would not return,” Lasher said. His surmise proved correct he said, for the next day he received a letter saying that she and “Shell” had gone away together.
Cora Burkowski stated that she saw Sheldon Van Atten and the Lasher home on several occasions.
William Woodbury, who lives in Waverly street, said that he hired Sheldon Van Atten to build a house opposite to the Lasher home and that on one occasion he “tiptoed” upstairs in the new house and found Van Atten with his arms around Mrs. Lasher. “They seemed to be quite loving,” witness said.
Woodbury said that on the morning that Van Atten and Mrs. Lasher disappeared the alleged correspondent asked him to take two trunks and a reed suit case to the station. The plaintiff stated that the reed suit case belonged to his wife.
Fanny Isaacs testified that she often went to visit Mrs. Lasher at her home and that Van Atten, who was also known as “Shell,” was always there.
“Whenever he saw me,” said Mrs. Isaacs, “he always began poking the fire and kept it up until I left.”
October 20, 1920
Buffalo Courier
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