Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04
WITHOUT ANY POETRY,
Loves Young Dream Would Not Last
on Seven Dollars a Week.
ONE SWEET ANGEL USED A HATCH
Harry Lydick's Sad Romance of the
Recent Carpenters Strike,
A VERY BUSY DAY IN THE COURTS

There was more than the usual assort-
ment of family jars presented for disposi-
tion in the Quarter Sessions Court on Sat-
urday, but in a number of instances the
parties in interest had no counsel, depend-
ing on the public prosecutor, Mr.. Goehring.
10 pilot the cases. The greater number of
cases were suspiciouslY redolent with calf
love, some of the couples being barely out of
their teens and the evidence showing that
they had started housekeeping on revenues
that would not keep an exquisite In collars
and gloves. A young couple can exist on
love for six weeks to three months, but
after that the appetite becomes cross and
meat and potatoes, etc, are craved, and
even wasp-waisted angels have been known
to acquire an appetite for pork and beans after
that for love and pickles had been satiated
Court records show that marriages entered
into on incomes of 81 to SO week are yerv
risky at present, especially when the parties
are young and inexperienced.
Harry Lydick and his wife are quite
Young. He was charged with desertion, but
he contended that she was the deserter
II appeared that their troubles grew out of
the carpenters strike, when Harrv's revenue
fell off He said she had deserted him three
times and once left her baby 1t was devel-
oped during the case that Mrs Lvdick had
$1,000 of her own. Judge Kennedy said
Harry must find 81 80 per week for his
wife.
TWO sEMI-CEETENNIAL LOVERS.
The case of Martin Conroy went to prove
the old adage that Glove is blind at all
ages" He and Mrs. Conroy have been
married but six years and during that
time they have seen a great deal of life
Both have passed the half century mark
When Mrs Conroy began to tell her story
her counsel, Major Montooth, asked for an
injunction to res rain Martin from shaking
his finger at her, but subsequent proceed
iugs showed that she wasn't of the
scary kind and the injunction was
not needed. When asked where
the party lived, Mrs. Conroy said
lover there" pointing over her left
shoulder. The answer was ruled out as
void for want of certainty, but finally
it was learned that Cover there meant |
Limerick. Mr.. Conroy's sister testified |
that she, plaintiff in the case, made her liv- |
roy's attorney Mr. Clever, wanted |
to know what was meant by |
''other things" and at this Mrs. |
ConrOy fired up, and rushing toward Mr.. |
Clever shook her index finger under his |
proboscis, e1claiming: 81 know what you |
mean to insinuate, but L won't allow it. -
Mrs. Conroy paid little attention to Court |
objections but seemed to be will
ing to follow Major Montooth's
directions, and was finally in
duced to subside When Martin
took the stand, he said he was willing to |
provide for his wife if she would live peace
ably with him at either Nimick or Mckee's
Rocks near to the place of his work, but
she refused.
BLASTED BY A NEIGHBoR's TESTIMONY.
Mrs O'HoIleran testified that it
was impossible for anyone to
live in peace with Mrs Conroy;
that they lived near neighbors and the
witness knew what she was talking about.
She had heard Mr.. Conroy offer to furnish
a house at the place named, but Mrs Con-
roy refused to go and told him togo to a
land that is hotter than this
Judge Kennedy said Mr. Conrov must
contribute S3 a week to his wife's support,
but he is to be relieved of payment if she
refuses to 60 with him to a house he may
provide
A youthful pair are Griffith Humphries
and wife. They were married two years
ago last June and Griffith left last April
They had lived with the wife's mother
gineer and that he had paid about all he got
to his wife and mOther-in-law and did not
desert, but was driven out cf the house, after
being made sleep in the attic for
several weeks. He said that Mrs.
Humphries told him she was tired of him:
that she had plenty of friends in the city
and proposed to spend the rest of her life
with better-looking man. When told that
he must give security to paw a certain sum
to his wife, Griffith replied that he would
never give anything to the support Of that
woman and refused to give ball. taking the
way to the bastile in preference
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Hoffman pre-
sented the diverse side OF the ideal of 81
week and life and love in a cottage They
were both quite youthful, and their stories
would not look well in print. Franklin
finally said he would be willing to take
care of his wife if she were restrained from
attacking him with hatchet and poker, and
she said if he would desst from calling her
some very bad names she would let the
hatchet and poker alone. The parties were
given week in which to get the case
fixed up.
BEAT HER WITH CRUTCH.
Mrs. Quay had her brother-in-law, Harry
j, Quay, up for surety of the peace. He is
a shoemaker with one leg, and she said that
when he got drunk she was afraid OF him,
as his shop was close to her residence; that
on one occasion he beat her with his crutch
until she became sick. A woman testified
that she heard Henry say he would not die
happy until he killed the plaintiff. Henry
must give bail to keep the peace and pay
costs.
Samuel Carney was given two weeks in
which to make his peace with Mrs. Carney.
Mrs. Annie Killeen stated that her hus-
band, Martin, had agreed to do the square
thing and she was willing to compromise
and withdraw the suit and the Court al
lowed the case to go that way, on defendant
paying the costs.
John and Mary Parke, Of Allegheny City,
were charged by a man named Woods with
surety Of the peace, the Parkes having
threatened to throw the Woods olive
branches over hill 200 feet high, or rather
over the brink, if they caught them on their
(ParkesD steps again. 1t appeared there is
a banister dividing the steps, and the
Woods children had been in the habit of
getting over on the Parkes side occasionally.
1t was limited also that the friction had been
for some time, clothes-line on
one occasion having been cut in the back
yard Judge Kennedy refused to believe