The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-28
"Love and afsctions"

"haVo you Qaugnb
81 have. She ia 20 years cid"
"Has Oliver ]. Hit been keeping
company with her representing himself
to be single mani"
ayes He walked home with her at
night. He came to the steps with her
Thanksgiving day and l called him in
and told him I had found out he was
married man and said my daughter could
not go with married man. He said he
was as free as he ever was. He never
came back"
Cross examinations:
"Both MIR. Hit and your daughter
were employed at the Cash steref"
s'Yes''
"He merely brought her home after
closing as an act of civility?"
81 don't know"
Mrs Jessie Cookery said she was
married 4 months ago. Before that she
had gone with Mr.. Hit once or twice.
He had told her he was single man.
"Where did you meet Mr.. Hit the first
time, when he said he was aingls?" ask
ed Dir. Overmyer.
II don't know"
"Who introduced your"
81 don't know"
"WeIl, were you introduced"
"Oh, yes"
Weren't you just out skylarking and
met him?"
"No, sir"
swell. where did You got"
buggy riding"
"Where?"
sob, don't know, out Sixth street,
guess"
"You don't remember about this, do
your"
mo"
For the defense Mrs. Mary E. Grubbs.
631 Monroe, was a witness.
She said she had lived seven and one
half weeks in the same house with the
Hits and considered Mr.. Hit a perfect
husband. he got breakfast and took
care of the boy, while Mrs. Hit was away
from homS almost every night, and dur
ing three weeks certain evangelist was
in North Topeka she was gone every
night
Il thought they were extravagant for
they set as good table On $40 q month
as we did on $160."
"Who made this $16O?'
"Wel, I guess you know Clarence
Grubbs and know what he makes"
CALCULATED the old lady in a burst of
pride,''
81 confess that I do not" replied Mr.
1senhart amid great laughter.
The defendant, o. J. Hit, testified. He
is good looking man who dresses quite
we'll and scarcely looks the bad man the
He described how he took Raw away
from his mother.
II met her and her father right near
the house just as she came from Ohio"
he began. Il walked up and tipped my
hat and said, Il guess Pill take Ray with
me- Mr. Sloan said he guessed not, and
l slipped out of my overceat and he
walked on. fTilP said not to make fuss
for the neighb0rs were looking, but l
said never mind the neighbors; there'll
be worse than that before you get through
with this"
Dir. Hit said he didn't believe he ever
struck his wife, but pushed her away
when he was talking to her at Mrs.
Grubbs, about going to revivals and she
ming with Emmett Roudebush. he
didn't think he ever kept her from
sleeping in the bed AS to the time
she was locked out of the house
in Pond Creek, l. T., she had been
to a dance and not to church
and he was not in the house at the
time. In the seven years he had been
overcoat, while she had numberless
dresses.
Cross examination:
Didn't you write to Mrs. Hit and
others last fall that she was the incest
little woman in the world9'"
"Ie6."
"Yet you knew all these incidents,
Pond Creek dance affair, etc, tn en-, didn't
your"
Yes"
"The truth is you haven't anything
against your wife but you hate her
father SO you're being put up to make
charges against herr"
swell, l could overlook good deal, if
Mr.. Sloan didn't dictate so much to her.
It's hard to express my feelings"
swell, you about express them in this
letter when you call her My dear little
wife, don't your"
"Yes."
What was there wrong about that
Pond Creek dance"
"Well, l didn't like the way she acted
She got in with a pretty fast crowd that
l didn't like. There was a saloon in
connection with the place. She tried to
get me to dance, but / wouldn't and went
down to the depot"
"Who took your wife there?"
81 did"
"Why did you take her to such re-
sort?"
She insisted on going, and 1 went
along, of course"
Miss Russie Hit, Mrs. J. J. HIT Miss
Hitt MIR. Hunter and others gave testi-
mong about the care of the child. Miss
Hit said she had gone to Roudebush's
with Mrs. Hit one afternoon, when she
had given it out that she was going to
her aunt's. Rev. Mr.. Sloan testified that
he would give bond to rear and educate
the boy if given to his daughter.
Judge Hazen reserved his decision.