The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02
STILL SHRIEKS ARISE
From the Crowds Of Joyous Married
Ones in the District Court.

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Ones in the District Court
Mr.. and Mrs A. II. Dnfu used to live
/ at 1924 North Van Buren, street. They
/ We're married in June 1856 Mrs. DHdu
/ was but Is years old at the time, while
/ her husband was twice that old and
/ had two children by former mar
/ riage
The wifes suit for divorce began be-
/ fore Judge Hazen at IL yesterday, was
/ resumed at this morning and was
/ finished only at 1870 today. Tt was a
! contest from the word go" Witnesses
/ We're thicker than flies in the baseball
/ season.
Mrs Duhu claimed that her husband
/ had threatened to shoot her, and she
had to hide his revolver Once he had
/ knocked her down, she said. and a wit
/ ness testified to having seen it.
! To offset this, important witnesses
! were produced by Dilhl just before the
[ evidence closed today. One of them
/ was Mrs. Crump, cOlOred
Did you ever hear Mrs. Dihu call
| her husband names?" asked Lawyer
! Starbird
yes sir. I heard her say also one day
when they Quarreled If you come near
me VIII blow you down. if you touch me
I viii kin you One night she came to
our house crying. between II and II o'clock
and said she could not live with Dil6u
any more"
Mrs Bonawitz testified that Clarence
! Dilhn for whose custody much of the
.
/ trooper since Mr.. and Mrs. Dildu separ-
ated, but had been such a nice boy be-
fore Mrs. Schlegel said the same thing.
Since the separation the boy has lived
Mrs. Edwards colored, was called on
rebuttal
ibid you ever hear any trouble between
Mr.. Dnhu and his daughter about the
sewing machine2' asked Mr. J. 3. Lari-
mer.
zone day when I was at the house she
came in and asked who had done some
thing to the machine. forgot what it
was. Then they went upstairs, and he
knocked her down"
How do you know that he knocked her
down if you weren't in the room = asked
Mr.. Starbird
"Becau I heard the fuss. I heard her
fall; she must have stumbled, or some
thing"
Dnhm took the stand and said 81 never
struck my daughter, nor knocked her
down. She had trouble enough without
that"
Il never called my husband names.
never threatened to brain him with an
iron poker, nor to shoot him, never laid
my hands on him, because 1 was AFRAID
to have done so if / had wanted to" said
Mrs. DiIdu when she testified on rebuttal
to disprove some of her husband testl-
mony NO one ever told me that Clar-
enee swore. or I should have corrected
him"
The evidence was declared closed,
and Judge Hazen SAID ne Woulu give
the attorneys an hour next Monday aft
ernoon to argue the case The prop
erty owned by the parties consists oE
three lots and a house at l4z4 North
Van Buren, and house and lot 1T
3l5 Chandler street. Once when they
separated Dillfu decided this ChanC-
Ter street property to his wife when they
made up to bind his promises of be-
ing a good husband. He manuIac-
lures and sells baking powder and nav
Oring extracts.
judge John Guthrie acted as judge
pro tenn Yesterday afternoon and this
morning in the divorce case Of Mrs.
Sarah COzine against George H. CO.
zine The parties are from Auburn
township, and are middle aged judge
Guthrie granted the divorce ana $40
alimOny, though he refused 70 give MIS-
COzine part of the farm
The case was tried in the north
court room while Judge aazen held
court in the regular district court room
IJpon re-convenfng after dinner Judge
FIazan took up the hearing of the case
of Mrs Eliza beth A Moore vs.. John w.
Moore. It is a long contested case.
Miss Daisy Long was married to
Clarence z. Bissell no longer ago than
May 13, 1895. She says in her divorce
petition filed in the district court that
on March 1 last Clarence pushed her
against the table in a rude and ungen-
tlemanly manner, and on March 10 he
sat her down in a chair very hard, and
held her there.