The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-04-20
MINERVA
SENSATION.
Two Prominent Families Are
Getting Their Secrets Aired
In the Courts.
GOOD LOOKING BOOK AGENT
Said to Have Played Detective to Ruin
Henry Mick.
GOOD LOOKING BOOK AGENT
THE COURT FREED MICK.
And Now Micks wife and Horace A. PEN
mock Are to Answer to the Law For
Alleged Social Irregularities
some Startling Develop
vueuta.

Constable wielandt arrived from
Cleveland Wednesday evening with two
prisoners in charge. They were Horace
A. Pennock, proprietor of the Pennock
Track Sulky company. Of Minerva, and
Mrs. Henry Mick, wife of the Minerva
blacksmith. Both were under arrest
upon a charge of unlawfully living to-
gether and violating the seventh COM
mandment.
The case is one that has been shaping
itself for several months. For 27 years
Henry Mick and his wife lived happily
together, according to statement made
by the husband to a News-Democrat
man Thursday morning. On the third
of March a year ago his wife left him.
Mick says they had no quarrel. For
long time he says he did not know where
she was then he says he found that she
was at Louisville and he investigated
and the result Of his investigation was
that he brought suit in the Carroll coun-
ty courts for $4,000 damages against
Pennock for alternating the affections
of his wife. This case is to come up In
the next term Of court
Mrs Mick sued some time ago in the
Carroll county courts for divorce but
her petition was defeated and the d.
vorce refused.
At the beginning Of this week the
scene shifted to Cleveland and Mick,
who had gone there on business was
arrested at the Lincoln hotel in COM
pany with a woman named Pollard and
hustled into the court of Justice Brown
on a charge Of cohabitating with the
Pollard woman. This arrest was at
the instance Of Micks wife. The wife
and Pennock were both on hand to tes-
tify against Mick. Constable Wielandt
of this city was also there but his mis-
sion was to arrest the wife and Pennoch
on the warrant that he has had since
the last Of March.
Mick went on the witness stand ano
made a clean breast of his relations
with the Pollard woman. He said she
had come toMinerva some days age
selling or purporting to sell goods anC
had met him. He was coming to Cleve
land and she discovered this. When III
went to the depot she was there. III
says she spoke to him and intrudet
herself on his presence by asking hin
to carry her satchel into the car. Wher
Cleveland was reached she got him t.
go to the Lincoln hotel as he says III
had no choice of his own. The clerl
gave them adjoining rooms with doc
between. The woman was friendly h
says and made strong advances to him
She came into his room. The lex
morning when they were together ;
knock came at the door and a man Ell
tered. Later Mick was arrested and hi
wife and Pennock both turned up at th
trial, the wife being the complaining
witness.
The defense set up the claim that tn
whole affair was a put up job to ge
Mick into serious complications SO hi
wife could get divorce. 1t was as
serted that the wife had employed ,
detective to mislead Mick and that tn
Pollard woman was the agent Of tn
detective.
The court took that view Of the cas-
and exhonorated Mick and then CAV
the prosecution such roasting as the.
will not soon forget. He told then
that they ought to be sent to The pen
itentiary for conspiring to lead a yir
tuous man into paths of vice.
While the trial was going on Con
stable Wielandt was in evidence witt
his warrants and when 1t was over h
took Pennock and Mrs. Mick in charge
Mrs. Mick was stricken with an at
tack of heart trouble owing to the ex
element Of the affair and in the depo
at Cleveland dropped over. She wa
revived and brought down to Justic
Calmelat's court and both the defen
dants gave $400 bond for appearance
at court at Q o'clock Friday afternoo
for a hearing.