People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-07-08
Troubles from Conway Aired.

,Tbe state case against Mrs. Grace
Jones Of Conway Springs fOr assault
and battery, was tried In Justice
Ready's court Wednesday audproved
to be case OF much ado about
nothing.
Justice Ready holds court over on
the east side OF North A street Just
over the line in the township, and
is greatly favored over the city JUS
tices b, the county attorney in the
way of business. Court is held in the
btsem ut Of a residence and in room
uevUiC II furniture to such an extent
that t|ch juryman is required to get
his ct;;.r and take it to court. This
will doubtless be changed when JUS
tice Ready sells his wheat.
A jury composed Of u. r. Owen, E.
May, Arch BOhanna, L. Beavers, j.
+. HaIrelSOn and John Porter was
empaurlled and sworn to properly try
the case and after a motion to Quash
had been Overruled the trial was be.
gun, County Attorney Rogers, assis-
ted by G. E. Elliott, prosecuting, and
Rev. H. A. Kerr, a gentleman who
combines the duties Of farming with
those of preaching aud attending to
legal work, having his home near
Conway Springs, ably conducting the
defense.
The defendant was young lady of
only sixteen years but who had been
married a year. 1t was her first ap.
pearanCe in court and will doubtless
be her last, willingly. The prosecu-
ting witness, Mrs. Anna Springer,
was eight years older than the de-
PENDANT and apparently well able to
hold her own in case OF trouble. The
parties live In that part Of Conway
Springs east Of the railroad called
Ireland" which is evidently analy.
gOus to our "Stringtown." There
are about dozen families in the set.
Element and the climate and temper.
allure there are evidently such that
trifles light as air may grow into
troubles Of Stupendous proportions,
usually subsiding without notable
event. But Tuesday, the 22d, trou-
bleS arose which caused the majesty
OF the law to be invoked and all is not
yet over.
After the much talked OF Sheriff
Heskett had given the thirsty jury a
light lunch Of pure water the prose.
cutting witness was placed on the
stand. She stated that she had Dor.
rOwed cake pan Of the defendant
and last Tuesday evening sent her
little boy across the three lots between
their respective dwellings to return
it, asking that hen Of hers which
had trespassed on Mrs. Jones' premise.
and had been cOOped up by that lady
be released. Mrs. Jones refused tt
receive the pan from the boy, claim.
ing that it had been damaged by
being used as tin from which tC
! wat'r the chickens. Mrs. Springer
then went over, and claims that Mrs
Jones was sitting on a stove in the
backyard, holding the half o
a curtain pole in her hands anC
that she greeted her with thu
astonishing remark, "When anybOd,
gets the best Of me it will be pop
corn" From the evidence introduced
it was evident that there was N
popcorn" Mrs, Springer went afte
the hen coop, which Mrs. Jones pro
teCted with her apron. According t.
the evidence the woman "Spattedn {
little, rot being afraid of OdOriferOu
words. Then came the hair pullin.
and it tranSpired that Mrs. Syringe
with one hand on the coop and I'll,
OTHER in her opponents hair, baCket
that lady up against the house, hell
her there with her head in her stom
aCh, using some violence. At abOu
this stage Of the game slat came OF
the coop and the hen escaped, ap
pearing no further in the evidence
The two ladies then separated, retiret
to place as it were, and then agaiI
advanced, Mrs. Jones this time by tn
consent of both sides, with the piec
Of curtain pole in her hand. Nor
hair-pullng aud beating with hands
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