The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-29
BOTH ARE FINED
HUSBAND BREW AND WIDOW OAR
ROLL TROTTED IN,

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Man Found Who Turns His Wife ant
Children Out and Calls His Fathe
and Mother Periurers Mrs. Briden
stein Says That Circumstances Aite
Cases and That Propriety Is RELATIVE
NIatter-J. n. Brew Given Twenty-Fiv'
Dollars and Thirty Days In the Count,
Jail.
The Brew trouble that has been brew
ing for so long came to legal a-judica
ton yesterday in Judge Enoch's court
and was settled.
In October. '9S, Mrs. Phoebe Brew
wife Of ]. N. Brew, house-mover wht
lives in the north part Of town. filed
petition in the district court for di
vorce. Some time afterward she wen
away, or was sent, or driven. She tes
tiled that defendant, though fully able
TO support the family, starved her out
and one Mary Carroll, a widow, was
hired as Brew's house-keeper.
On a tall and quiet day some month:
efter Mrs. Carroll went away she drop
ped in home unannounced and unexpect
edly. The way Brew and Widow Car
roll were approprating things and act
ing in general aroused her wrathfui sus
picion and she proceeded at sundII
times and in divers ways TO investigate
When she had satisfied herself that ma
tiers were unceremoniously mixed and III
manly on the part OF Husband Brew
she notified the officers. Husband Brew
found out the turn and proceeded Il
thrash the lady. At this time Consta
bic Tom Eoss arrested Brew and wife
No. and cracked them into jail.
Yesterday they were tried in Jusdc'
Enocfl's court for criminal intimacy
Mrs. Brew on the part of the state testi
fed that Brew after ne became acGuaint
ed with Widow Carroll, neglected hel
(Mrs. Brew, cruelty abused her. ept
starved her and the children out till they
had 10 go to some relatives in Missouri
ey to come back here on. When she ar
rived she found Widow Carroll msstres:
of the Brew home; that Husband Brew
and Widow Carroll went out bUggy-rid
ing together; went to dances up on Oal
street and slep. in the same apartments
being unmarried to each other.
Several other witnesses testified to thu
same. Brsw's mother testified that III
had whipped his wife and threw her ou
of doors; that he was scarcely polite te
his marriage vows.
When Brew was put on the stand At
torney Conley, who was Mrs. Brew.
counsel, cross-examined him:
"Was your mother present on the dag
mentioned by her In the testimony"
eyes"
"were you drunk. as she said?"
mo"
"Did you whip your wife?"
IT did not"
"Do you think your mother would mis-
represent the NATTER"
'She didn't tell the truth; she was
jealous Of Mollie."
Ibid you 60 out buggy-ridins. as
charged"
Yes"
"How often?"
NEARLY every Sunday"
''Were you ever guilty OF any undue
intimacy with Mollie Carroll?"
"No."
"Did you take her to the Oak street
dances?"
Eyes"
Nfrs ~
''You live near Mrs. Brew's?s
eyes"
"Did you ever notice any improprie-
ties in the conduct OF Brew and Mrs.
Csrroll?"
"No."
would you think It proper for Brew
and Mre. Carroll, in the absence OF Mrs.
Brew. to be out buggy-rding and going
to dances and living together?'
81 don't know"
eff you and your husband were 70
have trouble and he should get jealous
and drive you away from home, do You
think it would be Improperly for you
to do as these people have done?'
'If were driven away from home !
probably should not think it wrong to
DO that way
The jury was out probably an hour.
and brought in verdict OF guilty.
Brew was given s25 and thirty days
in Jail. Widow Carroll SO, with jail
sentence.
There was probably as much raw
swearing an unvarnished English in this
trial as any that ever came up in a
Kansas justice court.
CITY IN BRIEF,
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