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- Buffalo NY Morning Express - 6/13/1924
An unusual marital tangle was presented
to Justice Pierce in supreme
court yesterday when counsel for
Mrs. Amelia Urtel Dean applied for
temporary alimony and counsel fees
pending trial of her divorce action
against Robert J. Dean. The husband
contends that she is no longer
his wife and that he obtained a divorce
decree against her in Erie, Pa.,
last November. He adds that Eva
Austeth. named by the plaintiff as the
co-respondent, is his wife as he duly
married her after divorcing the first
Mrs. Dean.
It appears that the Deans were
married in Kitchonf r, Out. on November
27, 1912. They bad three chil
dren. two of whom are alive. In February,
1919, they separated. Dean
then came to live with his father,
Patrick J. Dean, for whom he now
works as an electrician in Fourteenth
street near Connecticut street. Dean
claims that he pleaded with his wife
to come to this country to live with
him. but that she refused to leave
her parents. So he established a re,
idence in Erie, he says, and on November
5, 1923. divorced her on the
grounds of desertion. Shortly thereafter
he married Eva Ansteth.
It is the fact that Dean and Mrs.
Eva Ansteth Dean have been living
together at No. 692 Northumberland
avenue that is made the basis for Mrs.
Dean's divorce suit. Her story Is
that Dean deserted her. She denies
that he offered to make a home for
her and their two children. She says
t h a t s h e h a s b e e n w i l l i n g a t a l l t i m es
to live with him. with the sole objection
that they do not live with his
parents. It Is her further claim that
he is not legally divorced as she was
never served with divorce papers and
she contends that Dean could not
have kept a legal residence in Erie as
he worked in Buffalo all the time.
She asks $35 a week temporary all
mony. Justice Pierce reserved decision.
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