The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa
Tuesday, July 10, 1923
WIFE OF ROBBER GIVEN DIVORCE.
Husband Was Pal of Preacher-Yegg.
James Busselle, convicted of breaking into the Panor Shoe company store, and an accomplice of George Roper, the preacher-yeggman, was divorced by Fern Brusselle in district court yesterday. His conviction of a felony was the basis of her suit. She was granted custody of their two children, Pearl and Wayne. Busselle also has confessed to robbing a bank at Cambria, Ia., of $400. He is now in the state penitentiary serving time for the crime.
Charges that his wife was caught in a downtown room with a man, who incidentally broke his jaw when he sought escape by jumping from an upper story window, was the basis of the suit for divorce by Elmer H. Cline against Margaret Cline, which was granted.
Other divorce decrees granted yesterday are:
James T. Thompson against Katherine E. Thompson.
Lora M. Lower against Edwin G. Lower.
J. W. Quinett against Henrietta Quinett.
Oluf Hansen against Fern Hansen.
Pearl Collister against Fred H. Collister.
Bessie Burrell against R. D. Burrell.
Mabel Brennan against Charles Brennan.
Gwendolyne Dietz against Lyle M. Dietz.
Margaret Lee Snyder against Claire E. Snyder.
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