Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-22
MANY COURT SUITS
Sensational Case Brought
Against Three Young Men
Of the City.
Three More Saloonists Defend.
ants to Damage Suits Of
$500 Each.


city have been made defendants in q
carnage suit for $4,000. In which abduc
ton and the fuination Of the character
OF 15-year-old girl is charged. The
defendants are Ross Ingledue, Frank
Bowman and Tuey w. smalley, and the
action is brought in behalf of Sadie
Hays by her next friend. Mrs. Ida +.
Diller, mother of the girl.
Sadie Hays resides with her mother
and step-father, Henry A. Diller at ia
May street. In the petition, which was.
filed in the district court today, she al
ltges that she Is Is years of age .and
PRIOR to the circumstances related was
of chaste character; that on the 18th,
inst, While on an errand on the streets
of Marshalltown, she met Flossie Thorn
as, a friend and was introduced by her
to Ross Ingledue and Frank Bowman;
that she was induced to accompany
them to the Iowa Soldiers Home in a
| conveyance, and was then induced to go
boating with them, in company with
Miss Thomas, but with the understand
ing that she would be returned to her
home by 0.o'clock p. M; that when
about one and one-half miles above the
Soldiers Home the party landed and
entered tent, where by threats and
persuasion plaintiff was induced to
drink from the contents of vial a
| fluid she was told was Manila whisky;
that from the effects Of the liquid she
was placed in stupor. and does not
know what transpired until 9 or 9:3n
I3O'clock the following morning, when she
awoke feeling i'll; that Tuey Smalley
was at the tent during the following
day, but Ingledue and Bowman We're
gone. She charges Smalley with being
co-conspirator In enticing her away,
which she alleges was for the purpose of
| prostitution, and for such abduction and
| the ruination of her character she asks
the court to give her Judgment against
the young men in question for $4,000
actual damages and $4,000 exemplary
| damages.
MORE SALOON CASES.
| Three additional damage suits against
saloonists have been commenced in adj
dition to those filed few days ago. In
the last suits the plaintiff is Mrs. Katie
| McGlade. and she asks $1,000 damages
| from each of the defendants, the Gipps
Brewing Company, Gustav Bierman and
Owen I. BARLEY. The petitions in each
case are similar, and Mrs. McGlade
| wants damagesfo sales of liquor to her
husband, John McGlade She sets forth
the claim that her husband is skilled
| mechanic. but that during the past two
years he has become addicted to drink
and that the defendants have sold him
| liquors on which he became Intoxicated
/ q nd n o1 10 y;
when he was in state of intoxication;
that he has spent his earnings in the
| saloons. to the damage of the plaintiff.
STOCK FOOD WAS BAD.
The F. Z. Sanborn Company, which
| manufactures patent stock food and
has general Office in this city, is sued
by e. w. Barnes, Of Conrad, Grundy
county, for damages in the sum of ST.
777.5O. Barnes in his petition just filed
says that he was fattening 200 head of
calves. andfwas induced by the repre-
sentatives of the company and by their
circulars to purchase large quantity of
the food; that the food was improperly
prepared and contained poisonous SUBJ
stances, and altho fed according to di-
iections and instructions, the 200 calves
were poisoned, resulting in the death OF
eleven head and the injury Of the bali
ance of the herd. For the loss of the
eleven calves Mr.. Barnes seeks to re-
| cover damages Of $25 for each and $3.50
each for injury to the remaining 1879,
| in addition to the cancellation of his
| note for $S5 given to the company In
payment for the food.
OTHER CASES.
| But one more day remains for the fill
| ing of petitions for the September term,
and the usual rush at the clerks office
has occurred. j. P. Cooper asks 5000
damages from Mrs. S. g. Garwood for
failure to comply with contract for the
sale Of piece of property in this city.
Clara Westergard is suing for di-
vorce from Olaf Westergard. to whom
she was married In September, 1897. She
alleges cruelty.
Matilda Hoffman Is the petitioner for
a divorce from Frank Hoffman, to
whom she was married in Sioux Falls in
1886. Desertion is alleged, and Mrs
Hoffman wants the custody OF a minor
son.
It Saved His Baby.
"My baby was terribly sick with the
diarrhaa." says j. n. Doak, of Will
! Jams, Ore. I'VE we're unable to cure
him with the doctor's assistance and as
a last resort we tried Chamterlain's Col.
ic. Cholera and Dlarrma Remedy. am
happy to say It gave immediate relief
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