Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-02
A DAMAGE SUIT.
p. [. Wood Sues S. w. Brunt for Alien
atlng His Wife's Affections.
MOORE GIVEN EIGHT YEARS.
Sentence Pronounced Upon Defaulter-IS
Bartley Legally DeAd9-Crazed by the
Luetgert TrIal-HAnged for Shoot
Ing n Man-RSpOrt Denied.

OTTUMwA, Ia, Nov. Goa sensational
suit was filed in the Keokuk county
court at Sigourney yesterday. The
suit was one for $4,000 damages,
brought against S. w. Brunt, cashier
of the Keokuk county state bank, by
z. L. Wood, charging Brunt with alien
ating his wife's affections. The suit
created an immense sensation. Wood
is leading citizen, his wife being
prominent worker in church and chart
ty circles. Gossip about the banker
and Mrs. Wood recently eliminated in
Wood suing his wife for divorce. The
Judge granted the divorce, but before
the decree was signed Mr.. and Mrs.
Wood were reconciled and again began
living together Then followed the
suit against Brunt, and it is understood
that Mrs. Wood will be conspicuous
witness for her husband in the trial.
More Given Eight Years.
LINCOLN, Neb. Nov. S0.-Eugene
Moore, ex-auditor of state, who was
convicted yesterday of the embezzle-
ment of $4,000 of public money, was
sentenced by Judge Cornish to-day to
the penitentiary for eight years. The
trial lasted many weeks. Moore's
lawyers admitted the shortage, but
commended that the offense was not
embezzlement from the state, because
the money, which consisted of insur-
ance fees, should by law have been
.o;l - 4ho k,aoeurar opd thaf thara-
fore Moore was accountable only to
the insurance companies. Judge Cor
nish overruled the defense on the
ground that it was wholly technical,
and his action left Moore without a
mainstay.
Ia BARLEY Legally Dead?
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 3O..-Joseph Bart
ley, treasurer, now under 90 years
sentence for looting the treasury Of
$500. 900, in answer to the states suit
in which he is made co-defendant with
his bondsmen, in a suit to recover the
amount stolen. declares that he cannot
be sued since he is dead, having been
sentenced to the penitentiary. His ~
torneys declare that under the stat
law no convict can be sued. If this
contention is held good the uitagainst
the bondsmen cannot be maintained,
since the principal must be sued with
or before sureties are sued in Nebraska
Hanged for Shooting Man.
PITTsBURGH, Pa, Nov. 80 George
douglass, the negro who accidentally
killed Albert Grayer at Snowden, Pa,
a mining hamlet near here, last spring,
in attempting to murder another man
with whom he had quarreled over a
game of craps, was hanged in the
county Jail yard here this morning.
The accused expressed sorrow for his
crime.
Crized by the LuetRert Trial
DENVER, Col, Nov. 30.-'John H.
Dame, until recently runner for the
Western hotel, was locked up yester-
day on charge of insanity. He read
the testimony in the Luetgert murder
trial at Chicago and becamed possessed
of frenzy to kill his wife and two
children and to burn their bodies in
the old garbage erematory.
A Report Denied.
WILMINGTON, N. c., Nov. SO.-The re-
port that Nathan Willis, colored, the
murderer of young white man named
Stephens, was burned at the stake by
lynchers was not correct. He is safely
lodged in the Horny county, S. c., Jail
at Conway.