Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-03
Has an Irate Parent Right to
Thrash Man Who Helped
Daughter to Elope
THRILLING STORY
Officer Of the National Guard Of Iowa
to be Sent to the Maneuvers at Man.
sas-Exhibits in Supreme Court
Gases to be Returned to the Lawyer.
News Of the Capital.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 3.-The Iowa SUI
preme court has been called upon to
decide whether or not an irate parent
of a giddy girl has right to chastise
with horsewhip, the young man who
engineered an elopement of the girl
with another young man: and If this is
not statutory parental right, wheth-
er 5000 is sufficient balm for the
wounds of the young man.
The case of Shoemaker VS.. Jackson
has just reached the supreme court
on appeal from Montgomery county 1t
involves thrilling story of adventure
in the quiet little town Of Villisca one
year ago. Helene Jackson, daughter
of the leading doctor Of the town, had
become enamored Of one Newell Wey-
er. but the senior jackson frowned up
on their attentions to each other and
put the usual obstacles in the way of
love making with the usual result. FL
nally one night an elopement was plan
Clarence Shoemaker and Agnes Lum-
bard. Miss Lumbard was with Miss
jackson in the iatters room. Late at
night the good doctor was aroused by
a shrill whistle. He thought he saw a
light in his daughters room. He shift
ed and the light went out. Again he
was aroused by the shrill whistle and
this was repeated twice before he final
ly went with his son out into the yard
There he found Weyer and gave him
chase without success. Then he ran
into Shoemaker who protested he was
innocent of any wrong intent.
Like in the romances the good doctor
went to bed and later his wife became
apprehensive, and they found on ex-
animation that there was a ladder set
up against the window. and the room
where the two young ladies were pre-
sumed to be sleeping was vacant.
The long distance telephones were
kept hot for few hours but at day
light the doctor met Shoemaker re-.
turning lelsurely to the town with a
buggy He said he had taken the two
girls to a certain town where they
wished to go. The doctor rushed off
furiously in that direction. later found
the elopers had gone the other way.
It was the next day that the good
doctor bought a horsewhip and meeting
young Shoemaker on the street invit-
ed him into his office. The door was
locked and the boy was given sound
whipping.
The jury gave young Shoemaker a
verdict for 5000 on his claim of dam
ages for his bleeding shanks. The doc
tor had put in counter claim of dam
ages done his daughter by the conspir-
acy to which he claimed Shoemaker
was a party. as he claimed when he
got her home she was i'll for some time.
The affair was the sensation of the
day in Villisca but was kept out OF
the papers until this time DR.. Jack
son, the appellant, claimed that the
Judge erred in refusing to submit his
counter claim to the jury He claim
ed that under the circumstances he had
right to whip the young man in his
office. The jury sympathized with the
young man.
An officer Of the Iowa national guard
will be sent as a representative to the
national military manoeuvers at Man
asses in September. The military
manoeuvers this year will be for the
eastern and southern troops. It will
include companies from Maine and
Texas Two years hence the central
and western troops will again go to
Fort Riley for manoeuvers. Just VINO
will go from Iowa is not known
The supreme court before adjourning
the last time issued an order to the
clerk OF the court to send back to the
attorneys the various exhibits sent TO
the court with appealed cases, after
certain time The accumulation of
these exhibits fills the storage room of
the court. Clerk John Crockett is hav-
ing sent back to lawyers a large
amour, OF stuff. some Of which has
been on hand many years, and here
after these exhibits will be periodically
cleared out. Among the stuff sent back
this week was an old map of Ottumwa
made In 1870, and map of the state
i'm 1878 A large number OF town plates
were included in the exhibits disposed
Of. Then there was a model OF an ele-
yator dump where damage suit orig
mated. the frog on a railroad track
where a $1,000 case got its start.
club that was used in a murderous as
sault. old day books and ledgers and A
variety Of weapons.
.
The case OF John w Stone. of Sioux
CITY. who killed Frank Kahler. in Des
Moines. is pointed to by state officers
as an illustration of the prevalent GUS
tom of allowing persons known To De
insane to run at large so long as they
apnear to be harmless. It developed
after Stone had committed murder III
Des Moines that it was known he was
mentally unbalanced and that he had
been in that condition for three years.
but it was believed he was harmless.
1T also developed that his father had
a sister and two cousins in an insane
hospital in Pennsylvania at the time.
and two or three other relatives had
died insane. When Stone was sent 10