The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-04
HYMEN SOLVES It
Church and Miss kIeinnegger
Cancel Their Troubles.
WILL LIVE 1T ALL DOWN
That Is Their Intention as tx
pressed in Probate Court'

Two young people went to the probate
court yesterday, went alone and asked for
a marriage license, as forecasted in yes
terday's Eagle They came as though
nothing had ever happened TO mar the
course OF love. They asked for license
and answered the questions put them by
the court. They were not related IN the
prohibited degrees Of relationship
Harry Church is a young man OF twenty
four, and Mary Kleinneger is twsnty-one.
There is a cloud back of this days work.
The course of their love, less than a year
ago, overeaped it's bounds and fell into
the lap of tragedy. The details of the
tragedy are familiar TO the reader. The
finding Of a dead child in the Arkansas
river, the suspicion, the arrest, the mis-
trial Of two persons connected with this
unhappy affair are events oft related and
familiar Then came a breathing spell;
a time for reflection.
Mary Kleinneger stood in an attitude TO
try a woman. From the result Of these
trials it was a question whether the laws
strong arm of punitive justice should fall
on her mother or on her erstwhile sweet
heart.
1t was her prerogative to decide. II she
married Harry Church, the statute would
protect this relation and her voice would
be eienced as against him. Would she
hesitate?
Anger and hatred had spent themselves
in vain. Again the way was open TO end
by love what war had not terminated.
Harry Church had again proposed mar
hoa cd
She stoo dwith Harry Church in the pro-
bate court room while the clerk wrote the
states permit to make man and wife of
these twain. The questions asked and
answered; the license sealed with the seal
of the court; the young people retired to
the parlors Of the court room and there
they plighted again their vows and pledged
anew their promises, and the court said:
"By the authority vested in me, under the
laws OF the state of Kansas, 1 pronounce
you man and wife"
This ended a strain upon the mind Of
Harry Church. This was as verdict Of
a jury, mot guilty"
When the district court was called yes
terday the sheriff and his deputies led
line Of fifteen prisoners TO the bar of the
court to hear the charges as read against
them and to plead III open court whether
guilty or not guilty.
In the case of the state against Klein
meyer and others, the prosecution was dis
missed and the defendants discharged.
In the case of Wick Clayton, charged with
forgery, he was released on the ground
of insanity.
The more important cases are noted here
after:--
The first case on the criminal docket
was that OF John Kleinneger, Louis Klein
meyer, Harry Church and A. Kleinneger,
charged with killing the unnamed infant
child of Mary Kleinneger, on the Il day
of June, 1895. The defendants, A. Klein
meyer and Harry Church, had separate
trials at the September term of the dis
trict court and the jury failed to agree in
both cases and were discharged. The trial
was continued as to all the defendants
till the January term. Mary Kleinneger
was an unmarried woman living with her
parents. Mrs. A. Kleinneger and John
Kleinneger, and Louis Kleinneger is her
brother
Harry Church was her sweetheart and
alleged to be the father Of the child muir
dered.
The case attracted much attention and
was enthusiastically prosecuted by Ami
! don and Comfy, county attorney and assist
| ant county attorney. Il developed upon the
| trial that Harry Church had offered to
marry the girl, Mary Kleinneger, but that
| she had refused him on the ground that
| he had nothing to make home for her.
| Tire case was complicated. There were
| y1-i-D to ha 70 ~ hat ba nbf1
was born and delivered to Harry Church
! to bring it to the Children's Home in
| Wichita. The child was brought in a bas-
/ ket and was afterward found dead In the
! Arkansas river and there was evidence of
violence done it. Whether the child was
| killed and then given to Harry Church,
or given alive to him and by him killed
was the question upon which the jury,
after hours of elaboration, failed to agree.
| One jury failed TO acquit Mrs. Kleinneger
| and one jury failed to convict Harry
| Church.
The young people have settled the mat
ter by getting married. They went alone
to the probate Judges office and procured
a marriage Incense and Judge HaymakeI
| pronounced the ceremony which made
them man and wife. Judge McCandleSs
! read them a lecture and they indicated
to him their intention of making this the
beginning Of a happy married life. you
must go TO work" said the judge, "and
live this down"
I'VE will" they said in unison. and they
looked at each other. I'VE love each other
in spite o fall that has happened and a:
they started 10 leave. Judge McCandIess
asked: How do the old folks take ,his?'
"Oh. they are reeonciled- Il is settled
now" and they went away like lovers.
When the case was called in the district
court. It was dismissed and is now ended
forever.