Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-01
Governor Cummins Orders John
Lamer, of this City, Re-
turned to Fit. Madison.
is ARRESTED AT MELBOURNE
Brought to This City and Placed in
Jail and Will be Taken to the Peni-
Tertiary Friday - Wife Tells Pitt
full Story - Had Remarked Him At
ter His Parole About Year Ago.

John Lamer, young barber of the
not able to stand prosperity. Fortu-
nate as he was in receiving the ,clemen-
CIV of Governor A. B. Cummins, result
ing in his being paroled from the TT
Madison penitentiary, he has violated
his parole so repeatedly that the matter
was reported to his eXcellency. with
the result that Wednesday an order
from the governor commanded Sherlii
Shoemaker to arrest him and return
him to TT. Madison. Deputy Sheriff U
S. Hutson located Lamer in Melbourne
and there arrested him Wednesday
night. bringing him to this city and
lodging him in Jail.
Lamer is only q years of age and
was married on Dec. Is, 1895. to MISS
Jessie Robertson, a good-looking young
woman of refinement, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Robertson. OF state
Center, They lived quite happily to-
yether until few years ago. Wiien
Lamer was arrested in this city, IN &c
tober, 1900. in company with MISS
Maude Whitney, of Jefferson, who mao
registered as his wife and was occupy
ing a room with him at the Globe no
tel Mrs. Lamer was Inundated, ana
as she had suffered she proposed to
make her unloyal spouse taste OF the
bitterness of his own folly. She prose-
cuted a charge of adultery, when was
tried at the November, 1900, term OF the
district court, resulting IN Lamer oeins
found guilty. Judge Burnham imposed
a three-year sentence, and the prisoner
was taken to F't. Madison to serve the
state.
Mrs. Lamer was left with her little
son Dwight, who will be years OF age
next spring, anu later secured ol-
yorce. Friends of the husband began
efforts for clemency, in which Mrs. La
mer Joined, with the thought that her
husband had been sufficiently punished.
Governor Cummins listened to the APP
peals and paroled Lamer after he had
served thirteen months of his sentence
Lamer returned to this city and on jan
@ 1902 was remarked to his wife.
Since they were married the couple
has lived at No. s East Webster street
While Lamer promised to be true and
loving husband and father, If what
Mrs. Lamer says is true he has been
ANYTHING but either He has not kept
his parole, which called for him to be
at home every night at 3; to abstain
from drink or bad company; or, in 9TH
err words, to become a good citizen
Mrs. Lamer says that instead her hus-
band has been intimate with women OF
questionable character, and this lntl-
macy has been confessed to her by two
of the girls in question. He has been
drinking hard and has not supported
his wife and boy, altho he has been
working steadily. Until few weeks
ago Lamer was in the employ of A. L.
Putnam, but more recently he has
been conducting a chair of his own in
an East Main street billiard hall.
SO wide did the breach become that
about ten days ago Mrs. Lamer decid-
ed she could stand it no longer. A
mortgage, held by W. 7. Bennett
threatened to take the household goods
In their little home; the rent was due,
and unpaid. Something had to be done,
and Mrs Lamer went to Melbourne and
borrowed of William Morris. a farmer
living south of that place, enough mon
ey to pay off the mortgage. She is now
working at the Morris home, to repay
Mr.. Morris for the loan. Last Monday
Lamer went to Melbourne to see his
wife and effected an interview Tues
day. She refused to have aught to do
with him. and he threatened her IL she
should report the matter to the COVER
nor. Lamer evidently thought, so Mrs.
Lamer thinks, that the threat would
prevent her from acting, but she did
so, resulting in Lamer's arrest Wednes-
day night. Mrs. Lamer visited the city
today at Lamer's request, he having
expressed desire to see her once more
before retiring to the penitentiary.
Sheriff Shoemaker will take Lamer
to Ft. Madison Friday, leaving in the
morning. He will forfeit what good
time he might have gained, for violat-
ing his parole, and will have one year
and eleven months yet to serve.