The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-06
PENNY VERSUS PENNY
Mrs Mary Penny Granted an
Absolute Divorce.
She Retains the Custody and Care Of Her
Children. ACase That Has Attracted
Much Attention..

The final act of a domestic tragedy
took place here yesterday in the court
DOM, when Judge Robinson granted
Mrs. Mary c. Penny a divorce from
] er husband, Eugene Penny. The
round upon which the divorce was
granted is adultery.
The facts leading up to the case are
well known to the people of Wake
county Last winter Mr.. Penny dis
appeared from his home, and a little
ater it was discovered that one Miss
Allie Chamblee, who had taught
school in the neighborhood a few
months before, and who had boarded
IT Penny's house, had disappeared at
the same time. 1t is not strange,
therefore, that strange things regard
ing the pair should be whispered
mong the neighbors, nor is it strange
mat when some weeks later the pair
tut in temperance, claiming to
lave taken a trip together, that the
"I-told-you-so's" found listeners, and
he most charitably thinking neigh
hors could find no palliation for their
conduct. Miss Chamblee, however,
couldn't see why people could make
such horrid and uncalled for remarks
about them, as Mr.. Penny had simply
reated her like a lady. She had
always wanted to see the world, she
said, and Mr. Penny had been kind
enough to assist her in gratifying her
ambition. He had been as nice to her
as he could be, and had shown her the
world, and she hadn't once thought
that people could be so mean as to
say ugly things about them. 1t was
Eorrid, that's what it was.
Penny went to his home, but the re-
ception he received evidently wasn't
what he was looking for, and with the
milk of human kindness curdled with
in his manly bosom, he determined to
get himself out from among an evil
and prurient minded generation who
PERSIST in misinterpreting and mis-
constituting the motives that animate
their fellow man. So he HE'D him
self out of the county and abode for
the space of about three weeks. He
then came back and made over part
Of his property to his wife, one of the
stipulations being, among others, that
she was to care for the maintenance
end education of the children. He
soon afterwards left the county. Mrs.
Jenny Immediately brought suit for
divorce on the statutory grounds, and
the prayer of her complaint was
granted yesterday. She retains Gus
tody of the children.
Other cases in which proceedings
were had Yesterday are as follows:
A decree was entered restoring
Thomas Robertson to his lost right of
citizenship. Robertson was sent to
he roads for five years for seduction.
after a trial which lasted several days
and which attracted much attention.
A demurrer was entered and sus
tanned, and an appeal from the de-
cision sustaining the demurrer, was
taken to the Supreme Court, in the
case of J. r. Moody V. State Prison.
Moody is suing the prison to recover
damages for a tort; the demurrer is
on the ground that the prison cannot
he sued on a tort.
The case of c. o. Ball V. G. IL. Cox
was continued.
The case of Marie E. Haywood V.
Ernest Haywood, trustee, etc, was
compromised.
The case of W. III. Thomas "
Raleigh and Augusta Railroad was
continued until the first day of the
next civil term.
The Caraleigh Phosphate and Fer
tilizer works V. f. ID. Hunt was set at
the foot of Thursdays docket
There is no court today.