Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-21

OFFICIALS INVOLVED
Lieutenant Governor Milliman
and Senator Haz elton Mixed
Up in King Case.
Their Dispositions Tell Of Taking
Two Women to Mrs. Kings.
House.
VIM and Game n c.rd...T,vo
Wine and a Game Of Cards. Two
Sudden Deaths at
Victor.

which has been pending for nearly
year, is on the call In Judge Holmes
division of the district court and may
be reached today or tomorrow. An eff
fort has been made to squelch the pro-
ceedings because of the fact that two
prominent state officials. Lieutenant
Governor j. C. A1illiman and Senator
Arthur s. Hazelton, representing the
I.Pottawattamie district in the legisla-
ture, are involved The effort, however,
failed and the case is to come to trial
| The dispositions of the lieutenant gov
ernor and the senator have been filed
and are to be used in the trial.
| Mra. King lived for a couple of years
at o39 Sixth avenue and conducted a
rooming house. 1t is also claimed that
she INDUCED in fortune telling and adj
vertised to disclose the future to those
ldesirng her services for considera-
ltion. Her husband, j K. King, is the
Iowa representative of one of the large
school book publishing concern.
\ The divorce proceedings were precipi-
tated by an occurrence On the night of
May 10, 1900 the date of the republican
state convention of last year, in which
Lieutenant Governor Milliman, Senator
| Hazelton and two women whose names
are not known figured. King, who had
| been in creston, returned home rather
unexpectedly and found the quartette ir
his house There We're bottles of liquor
I'm sight and a scene ensued King
| charged his wife with Improper con-
duct and with having rented rooms
| against his orders. engaged In fortune
telling against his protests and with
| having used the house for improper pur-
| poses The result was a separation an1
| the bringing of suit by Mrs King for
la divorce in the grounds of cruel and
4 inhuman treatment. King answered de-
nying the charges ana fled a cross bill
charging Mrs King with fortune telling.
renting rooms for immoral purposes
etc. Then followed scenes at a hotel
| where King went to live and where his
wife Insisted on following him until FIN
tally he sought and secured an injunc-
ton restraining her from interfering
with him in any manner.
| The dispositions OF Miliman and Haz-
Ieltcn are expected to play an important
part in the case. M!iliman's deposition
was taken before Colonel Bolter in Lo-
Il
| sioner In Council Bluffs.
After stating his place OF residence
and his official position. Mr.. Milliman
II: response to heterogeneous. testifies
that during the session of the legisla
ture in 1899 and 1900 he occupied a suite
! OF rooms at the King house He saws
| there was a sitting room bedroom and
/ an alcove. and that besides the ordinary
there h.,1c In, 4
\ suite in separate rooms. Continuing. he
testified that he was in attendance upor
4 the state convention In May of las,
! year. He denies that on the evening Of
May 10 he drove in carriage with two
women to the depot and there met Ha.
4 zleton. Who Joined the party, and that il
4 was then driven to his room: but saw.
4 that the facts are that he met Hazeltor
IN front of the Slavery Hotel. and tina
while he was talking with him the tw,
women came UP. He testifies that hs
had previous acquaintance With then
4 and that he stopped them and they en-
/ gagged in conversation He suggeste,
I to them that they go with Hazleton anc
himself 20 his rooms aud there finish ;
card game they had engaged in upon
| previous occasion. He says that the,
J consented to do this and that they wen
! to the King house; that be left Hazel
! ton and the two ladies standing on TIL
porch. and that he went into the house
where he saw King. He then returne,
!. to the porch and summoned Hazelto,
. and the women. and they went to tn
rooms. where they played a game O
? cards He says that at 1890 carriag
came. per arrangement, for the women
} and that he and Hazelton entered /
, with them and accompanied them t
. their homes. where they left them. an,
5 returned to the King home. where the,
: slept that night.
Mr.. Milliman testifies that there wer
liquors in the room: that he brough
them there, and that he purchased then
In Des Moines because he could not blu,
liquor in Logan; that he had it for hi
own use and for the use of persons VIII
might visit him. There was beer, win
and whisky. He thought that this par
ty drank some wine on the evening ii
question.
Asked II he could tell the street an,
number to which the women were driy
ell. he said that he could not: that h
did not know either the street or nun
Der.
IN reply to question as to thei
rames he replied that he must declin
10 answer the question for the reaso,
that the women We're highly respectabi
and that to divulge them under the cir
/, cumstances would subject them to un
!, deserving criticism.
: Senator Hazelton in his testimon
] confirms all that Mr. Milliman has I
say in his deposition with reference I
: the meeting, the card game in the lieu
. tenant governors rooms, etc, and to
j. previous acquaintance with the womer
He says. in response to a question. tina
the women were neither members q
Mill!man's family nor relatives of hi.
He thinks 1t was about 10 o'clock whe
the party drove to the rooms and abou
midnight when they left He was un
able to give the street address to whic
!, the women We're driven, saying that h
did not know It, and also declined I
give their names for the reasons as
signed by Mr.. Mllliman. He testifie
that the women We're of good reputatio
and excellent character.
One other witness, man name
Brown, who says he is a lecturer O
!, scientific topics. testified to having see
t Mrs. King at the depot and on the trai
D with a man not her husband, told of he
] conversation relative to fortune tellin,
y etc. and of occurrences he had wit