The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-05-25
WAS SHE HIS \
He Lived With Colored Woman
Twenty-Five Years, But
Refuses to Pay for
Medical Services and is Sued.

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Medical Services and is Sued.
Cincinnati, o., May 20.-An interest
ing suit, that was filed some time ago in
Squire Hauser's Court, was brought to
light Saturday, More than one effort to
compromise the suit has been made, but
the plaintiff has refuse to settle for any
thing but the full amount.
The plaintiff is DR.. William D. Haines,
of Freeman avenue, and the defendant
is Abraham Mann, a contractor who
lives on the Warsaw pike, Price HILL
The doctor sues to recover $500 for med
ical services. .a.@
The facts are interesting. Two years
age DR.. Haines was called in to attend
A eoLoRED WOMAN
Named Mary Johnson, who was sick
in bed with consumption. He called
regularly twice day, but the disease
had such hold on the woman that she
died. The doctors bill was $500, but
there was no one to pay it. He inquired
around, and was told by more than one:
why don't you collect it from her hus-
band, Charlie Johnson" AS the latter
was white man the doctor paid no at
tention, until the evidence that the
woman was married was 80 convincing
that he appeared before Squire Hauser
and entered suit. Clerk Frank Doss-
man was engaged to look into the case,
He found thst the. dead woman had
L. A SISTER LIVING .s .:.
In indianapolis. He hunted her up
and now has hersdepesitien. Her name
is Caroline Bently, and she lives at rs
Eddy street, Indianapolis.
She appeared before J,.mes P. Baker,
Of 50 Vance Block, and made her deposi-
ton. She says that she first became &C.
quainted with Abraham Mann in this
city twenty yearssgo, when he lived
in Avery alley. She claims that Mann
married Der sister. and he is her brother
-in-law. Her sisters maiden name was
Mary Head. Mrs Bently claims that
she lived with Mann and his,wife for
over year and was with her month
before she died. They always addressed
each other ~
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
But he was known as Charlie johnson
and she was called Mary Johnson.
Mrs. Bently says she never saw the
marriage certificate. She knows DR..
Hsines, rs he attended her sister.
In her deposition, Mrs, Bently SAYS
Mann is white man and her sister. was
Colored.
The doctor also has the evidence that
Mary johnson was expelled from church,
as she was charged with living with a
white man, but when she showed her
certificate ofmarriage she was reinstated.
The preacher who tried the case is Rev.
| Dortsch, who is at preset at Allied, Ill.
His deposition will arrive in this city in
few days. ......
Constable Billy Burchard summoned
Mann to appear. He has engaged Jor-
dan Thomas as his attorney, and offered
to compromise for $3.50. but the doctor
wants all or nothing.
Mann is a well-knGwn contractor on
Price Hill. His father ut one time dur
the war run shoe store where the Gus
tom House now is. i
/ Ids. e.
i The Independent Dancing School Club
gave q complimentary psrty toits former
1 patrons at Central Hall Thursday even
ing. The affair, which was well attended
was one of the most elegant ever given
| by this justly celebrated club The cos.
sumes displayed by the ladies were very
elaborate. All present had a delightful
time.
!, Chicago House Cleaning Co,
One of the breads Of housekeepers i.
house-cleaning time, and as that time
will shortly arrive The APPEAL calls the
attention of the public to the Chicago
House Cleaning Company which has re-
centlybeen organized by Messrs. James
c. Battles and Payton Randolph. They
employ the latest and best known ma
terials and tools and only experienced
J reliable workmen capable of executin,
their work in q most thorough und su
perior manner. They DO general hous.
cleaning; chimney sweeping; busting
wiping and cleaning papered walls; oil
ing and polishing woodwork and floors
clean woodwork, painted walls. win
dows, lights, mirrors, globes, mantles
ETC., cleaning yards and cellars, remov
ing rubbish. Fumigate and whitewasl
, cellars, carpets taken up and cleaned b,
steam. Also clean carpets on the floors
Carpets taken up, altered made over an,
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