THE DETROIT NEWS

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

5 January 1923

Supports Her in Disputing Husband’s

Claim He Is Resident of Canada.

Maizie Mitchell Ryerson, on the stand in the hearing before judge Theodore J. Richter, in Circuit Court, today on the petition of her husband, Albert W. Ryerson, to dismiss her suit for divorce on the ground that both are residents of Canada, admitted under cross-examination that after she left Ryerson to come to Detroit, late in 1922, she gave her residence as Canada when making a bank deposit.

She said that up to 1921 she lived in Canada with her parents, and in February, 1922, traveled through Ohio and other states in the interests of the International Sales Co. When in Detroit she lived at the Monroe Hotel, and later at 310 Ryerson Building, with Ryerson and another girl, Marion Liveson, she said. In the latter part of May, 1922, when she first met Ryerson, she was 17 years old, she said.

MOVED TO CANADA.

Mrs. Ryerson also admitted using the name of Mrs. William J. Foy. After her marriage to Ryerson last September she went with him to Canada to live, she said.

Marvin Jamshed, a Hindu, was the next witness today. He said that he was employed as a valet by Ryerson on July 29, 1922. Later he took out a license as a chauffeur, having driven a taxicab three years in Bombay, India. He said Ryerson never paid him any wages and failed to pay back $20 which he loaned his employer.

Ryerson told him he was just going to Canada for a month or two, Jamshed said. Jamshed testified that he had objected to going to Canada because he is a citizen of the United States and had no license to drive in Canada.

Jamshed also said that he kept two diaries, one of Ryerson’s movements and one of Mrs. Ryerson’s. An effort was made to introduce these as evidence but Judge Richter sustained the objection that this was irrelevant to the case at issue.

Testimony was completed at noon today and the case was taken under advisement by Judge Richter.

WOMEN THRONG COURT.

A throng of women was present at the hearing, as well as a number of Hindus.

The case was started Thursday.

Ryerson, Thursday, testified that he and his bride went to live in a house on Riverside drive, Ford, Ont., and that when he moved there from Detroit, he took out a settler’s declaration of intention of citizenship. He admitted, however, that his primary motive in doing this was to escape duty on his furniture.

He admitted also that Mrs. Ryerson was not present when he swore that she was a resident of Windsor, when applying for a marriage at Mr. Clemens. He declared he had to leave Ford because of his wife’s disgraceful conduct. Mrs. Ryerson declared on the stand that they left the Canadian town because their house was too cold in winter.

Milton Jacques, bailiff at Ford, and Walker Whiteside, attorney, testified that Jamshed had to prove that Ryerson was a Canadian resident before he was allowed to begin suit against him for unpaid wages.