Yesterday’s Divorces
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Title Yesterday’s Divorces Date 19 Sep 1889 Locality Newspapers.com Page 3 Periodical SF Examiner Place San Francisco, CA USA Source Type Newspaper URL https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-maggie-pray/135602720/ Source ID S1331 Text Mrs. Pray Deaf to Her Husband's Prayers Decrees and Alimony.
"In the name of all that is good and holy I have begged my wife to quit drinking," said Fred H. Pray to Judge Levy yesterday morning. "It was no use, though, for she was confirmed in the habit, and her excesses have driven us to ruin, financially and every other way."
Mrs. Maggie Pray, the woman accused, made no denial. She was arrested at the Grand Hotel a month aco for being intoxicated. It was disclosed to the court that Mrs. Pray is also addicted to the morphine habit, and a divorce was granted to her husband on tbe ground of intemperance.
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