Wife wins divorce from husband who tried to have her killed

BRUNSWICK - Mary Drury was granted a divorce from her husband, Dr. Carl M. Drury, a former state legislator who is in prison for plotting to murder her. <br> <br> The divorce was granted Monday in Glynn County Superior Court. The judge cited Carl Drury&#39;s imprisonment as legal grounds for the divorce. <br> <br> Drury, 63, was sentenced to 17 years in prison after a federal jury convicted him in February of trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife. <br> <br> The judge awarded Mary Drury personal items, title to two family cars and $23,500 for bills. <br> <br> Carl Drury, who is appealing his conviction, will keep his family&#39;s antique china and some personal items. <br> <br> In the criminal trial, an undercover federal agent testified that the doctor promised him $750 and gave him a handgun to carry out the slaying of Mary Drury. <br> <br> Carl Drury repeatedly has denied trying to kill his wife and testified the agent tricked him. He said he was only pretending to hire a hit man because he thought it was part of a federal training exercise.