Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-07
TABLES TURNED In A JIFFY.
MAMMALS OWN DEAR, DARLING boy
GOT IT RIGHT IN THE NECK.
The Mother-in-Law Used Her Deadly
Tongue Once Too Often and as
Result j. A. Ross Is Now
Locked Up-Court News.

VERY well, sir; If you refuse to support
your wife, I'll just send you to jail, where,
at your leisure, you can think the matter
over. When you come to the conclusion
that YOU would rather live with the wife
whom you once swore to protect than to
lie in Jail, I will let You out, but not till
then. Now, as for you, Mrs. Marsh. ad-
wise you to let your son and his wife alone.
You are not on trial, but that is my advice,
anyway"
These were the words with which Justice
Spitz closed the trial before him, yesterday
morning. of ]. a. Ross, who was arrested
last Wednesday on a warrant sworn out
by his young wife, Mrs. Uralia L. Ross,
charging him with cruelty and abandon
Inent The story of the family trouble was
told exclusively in the Journal at the time.
If Ross had not taken it upon himself,
at the prompting of his mo'ler, MIS-
Marsh, to relieve himself of The declar-
alton that he would never live with his
wife again under any circumstances. his
case would have been dismissed and ne
would not have been senr to Jail. When the
case was called yesterday morning Ross
attorney asked that ii be dismissed as un-
der the law the charge OF abandonment
against him would not mold, as he had
only left his wife two days when arrested.
Accordingly, Justice Spitz dismissed the
The justice was convinced. however, that
Ross meant to turn his wife out upon the
world.
Mr.. Ross I am compelled TO dismiss
YOU on this charge" he said but you
must support your wife. A man ought not
to turn a dog out such weather as this, let
alone his wife"
With an air of victory over her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Marsh jumped up and
poured into the ears of the judge and on
lockers n tale of the wrongs inflicted upon
her son by that ignorant, crazy, indolent
Paying no attention to the mother-in-law,
Justice SpitZ again repeated to Ross his
suggestion that he support his wife.
Mrs. Marsh nudged her son.
81 won't live with that woman again un-
der any circumstances. 1t did not do her
any good to have me arrested, after all,
was Ross reply, as he looked eXultingly
from the justice to his young, careworn
wife.
This was no sooner said than the prose-
cutting attorney whispered something to
Mrs. Ross. She arose and swore out an
other warrant for the arrest of her hus-
band. This warrant charged Ross with
non-support.
At this sudden change of affairs, Ross
and his mother were dumfounded Justice
Spitz promptly had Ross rearrested and.
after giving him and Mrs. Marsh bit of
wholesome advice. sent him to Jail
The proceeding in court yesterday morn
sension in which, according to the neigh
bors and the young wife, the mother-in-
law figured conspicuously. The husband
admits that up to the time his mother came
to live with him the family life had been
a happy one. hrs. Marsh says that she
never liked her daughter-in-law and never
would, and her plottings to separate the
young couple have resulted in the hus-
bands Incarceration.
The neighbors who came to the trial as
witnesses told Justice Spitz that they had
been keeping Mrs. Ross for the past week
as she had been turned out Of her own
home and had no money. He gave Mrs
Ross an order for food and fuel and told
her to take possession of her home and
her wants would be supplied until her huS-
band gave bond to support her.