Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — KISSLESS WIFE IS UPHELD [ARTICLE]

KISSLESS WIFE IS UPHELD

Mrs. Mildred Markowitz Need Not Caress Her Husband and They Must Stay United. New York.—Declaring that his wife would not kiss him, Samuel Markowitz asked the Supreme court in Brooklyn to annul his marriage to Mildred Markowitz. Mr. Markowitz, who la noted among his friends for his sartorial perfection, declared that whenever he attempted to embrace bis wife she repulsed him. coldly and got beyond, hie reach. Mr. Markowitz admitted that except in the matter of kissing him Mrs. Markowitz was a model wife, and that It was with sorrow he was forced to bring proceedings for annulment of the marriage.—— - Justice Marean, before whom the motion was tried, characterized aa absurd the ground upon which Mr. Markowitz sought freedom from his wife and denied the motion. Mrs. Markowitz in a counter action before Justice Blackmar prayed that alimony and counsel fees be granted her. Through her counsel she stated that she was married when her husband was eighteen years old and that prior to her meeting with him he had contracted other domestic alliances, of which she was ignorant at the time. Mrs. Markowitz made no effort to deny her coldness to her husband, and

declared that the marriage w»s performed at the instance of her mother, to whom she said he had gone, threatening to commit suicide if he could not marry the daughter. The court denied the motion.