Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-11-10

veteran, and retorted upon the attor-
news, greatly to their discontinue. This
was not her first appearance in court
She successfully prosecuted a pawn
broker in Liverpool, whom she charged
with stealing diamond brooch which
he had obtained by false representa-
tons, and she got verdict for the full
value of her property, and caused the
pawnbroker to be sent to prison. Since
Billiards. incarceration, she has refused
to acknowledge him as a husband. In
order to remove herself, she says, from
the associations connected with her hus-
band, she assumed the name of Will
liams, and took up her residence in
West Eleventh Street, in this CITY, in a
handsomely furnished three-story brick
house. There, according to slip of
paper which appeared by the side OF the
door, she had FURNISHED rooms
to rent, with board" She stated that
since she has been living in this house
she has been persistently prosecuted by
Capt. Kennedy and his detectives, who,
she asserts, have surrounded her house,
and have endeavOred to injure her
among her neighbors. Not long ago
one of her lady boarders had pet dog,
which was subject of annoyance to
herself and her guests, and she demand
ed the room. A dispute arose as to the
amount Of Indebtedness, and Mrs. Bal
lard refused to surrender the lady's
trunk until the board bill was settled.
Complaint was made at the Ninth Pre-
cinct station, and Capt. Kennedy not
only removed the trunk but ordered the
arrest of Mrs. Ballard. She was taken
before Justice Flammer, who promptly
discharged her. asserting that it was
matter for civil action and not criminal
prosecution. She claims that she was
maliciously maltreated, and declares
that she will prosecute the suit for dam
ages with all her power, not for any
money that she may recover, but to vim
dictate her character, and to show the
police that they can not arbitrarily ar
rest and imprison those who are guilty
of no offense but that of refusing per-
mission TO police captains to enter pri-
waite residences and insult the inmates.
Capt. Kennedy declines to make any
statement concerning the case, and ex-
presses regret that the damages have
not been placed at 100000.
Superintendent Walling states that
Mrs. Ballard is one of the shrewdest
women he has ever met, and can outwit
most detectives. He has afiidavits from
some of her neighbors complaining of
the conduct of Mrs. Ballard and her
boarders, and charging that the Ian
guage used at times in and about her
house is very Objectionable. The Su-
perintendent says that he was visited by
Mrs. Ballard, who objected to removing
from her present home, and upon her
assurance that she had rented part of
her house to private family, he ordered
The police surveillance to cease.
Mrs. Ballard left the city for Boston
week before last, in order to visit her
husband and demand wife's portion of
his deceased fathers estate. The sons |
crime and Imprisonment so deeply af-
iected his old father that he became in
sane and soon died. The felon sons |
share in the estate is about $50, 900. Mrs. |
Ballard imphatically denies every charge
If improper conduct and insists that all |
Ter troubles have grown cut of her mar
'iage to q criminal whose guilt was not
by her at the time of her mar
iage.