GOT HIS DECREE
BUS DRIVER’S STORY TO COURT
(Rec. 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 2. A bus-driver, James Larente, of Detroit, sought a divorce from his wife, Virginia;- charging extreme repeated cruelty. He told the court that since they married in 1944 she had burned his hands with lighted cigarettes while, he. was driving; clawed his face •while- lie was' driving until the blood ran; 'turned off the alarm clock so that he would.be late for work; followed him into the bus heckling him and the passengers stood in front of thg,,t>us arid refused to move, thus causuigHiim to be dismissed' got him into trouble with the taxation department by sending in an income tax return, but keeping an attached cheque; and sold all their possessions, using the proceeds to go to New York. Larente got his decree.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 45, 3 December 1949, Page 6
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