Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-28
SOLOMON Is OUTDONE.
Judge Stowe Settles Suits Which
Would Have Puzzled the Sage.
CASES COMPLICATED BY CHILDREN.
A Track Walkers Small Salary Proves to
be His Best Defense.
JOHN SMITH DIVIDES WITH HIS WIFE

The afterpiece played in Judge Stoves
court yesterday was much shorter than
usual.
Many names were called to which neither
prosecutor nor defendant answered, and as
District Attorney Johnston suggested the
difficulty of travelling in snow drifts the
apparent derelicts were given the benefit of
the doubt and the Court seemed disposed to
be very lenient.
A. G. and Annie r. Miller were first
called on. Annie was disposed to let her
hubby off easily, and the Judge dismissed
him with tine advice that if he must drink,
he should drink something that would not
make him cross.
John ii. and Lizzie Lewis held an ami
mated discussion in which John said he
offered to keep Lizzie if she would 90 to
Walls station to live with him, and that he
was refused admittance to her fathers house
when he went to treat with her. Lizzie de-
MED Johns allegations, generally and par
tlcularly, and as there is 4-year-old child
in the case Judge Stowe decided that John
must pay s. a week anyhow, whether the
couple lived together or not
James Latin and wife are considerably on
the shady side of life. Mrs. Latin said she
wanted James to be compelled to
treat her more kindly, and charged
him with maintaining another woman.
Mr.. Latin said he had been
traci walker on the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail, ay, and got 81 % per day. He said
he had followed this occupation for IA
years, and gave his wife from $50 to S35 a
month out of his salary. He insinuated
that Mrs. Latin was hard to please. A
married daughter dressed in deep mourning
came to her fathers rescue stating that no
one could live in peace with her mother.
Mrs. Latin began replication, but Judge
Stowe cut her short, stating that it didn't
appear that James was altogether to blame
and rather secuted the idea tnat be could be
an lntemperate man, as she alleged. and
keep position so dangerous. His Honor
also refused to believe that a man could
give his wife $50 a month out of salary of
81 25 per day and keep another woman. He
discharged the case without costs.
Mrs. John Burns, colored, wanted
the Judge to make her husband support
her and their child. John said he would
do so if she would live with him, but in
sisted that she was woman who liked to
roam off at intervals as far as Washington,
Baltimore, etc. The Judge intimated that
he would like to have the assistance of
Solomon in disposing Of these cases compli-
Gated by children. and finally told John
that he must give bail in S10O to pay his
wife So so per week or stay mi Jail. John
had stated that he could make $40 week,
and the Judge said the baby must be sup
ported.
Sarah Jane Smith wanted John Smith TO
support her. He said she did not come up
to his idea of what wife should be, and he
had declined on that account He said he
was coal miner, but not healthy, and could
not make more than S. week, one week
with another. Judge Stowe decided to
divide Johns salary, leaving him the option
to pay it or establish his complaint in the
divorce court against Sarah Jane.