The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-21
ROGUE IS BOUND OVER
ALLEGED sEDUCER WILL FACE
 GRAND JURY.
Complainant, Miss Black, Tells of Her Shane on Witness stand With outBlushes or Meditation.
 Bond Was Made.

| J. c. Hogue, former manager for Alabama or the Prudential Life Insu- rance Company. was yesterday neld to
 await the action of the Montgomery County grand jury by Justice w. $. Stokes on charge or bastardy. The | complaint was made py Miss Ellen Black. formerly milliner of Ever green.
 HoEue promptly made bond and re- turned last night to Greenville. The case attracted a vast amount
 of attention and the little. court room l of Justice Stokes was crowded yes Il terday noon. when the case wal called. l There were a number of witnesses from | Evergreen but the majority of the | crowd was composed of scandal lov- | ing people and soldiers of the lst Regiment. who came to hear the breezy | testimony.
 | HoEue, the alleged seducer, was rep l resented by counsel He is in appear
 ance a giant, with florid complexion, flight wavy hair. light eyes and cor pulent body. He listened to the evil dence with perceptible amusement and laughed heartily several times through
 the trial.
 On the other hand, the woman, who makes the accusation. is poor weaz-
 ened being. weighing hardly hundred pounds. She Is neither attractive or fair to look upon. Her hair Is viv- | idly red and she frankly admitted on the witness stand that she was thirty
 six years old. l She was her own star witness. Her testimony was given without blushes
 and without hesitancy as she told of Iher alleged seduction and her misery of many months.
 l All that IS delightful and refresh tug in the feminine being is lost in Miss Black. She told of her infamy frank | ly, and the snickers of the crowd In the court room troubled her not. Per
 fectly cool and composed at all times.
 much of the sympathy that was hers at the outset of the trial We lost.
 Her testimony in brief was that she, a milliner, was seduced by the hand | some insurance man. A child was born and marriage was promised. Mar riage never came and Hogue failed to provide for her. The infant was taken from her and given over to the family of an honest Butler County farmer, Clarke by name. while she was at the death bed of her mother. Report has 1t that she Is of prominent family of Fort Deposit. She denied emphat- ically that she was anything other | than a virtuous woman until she met Hogue.
 She was supported in her evidence
 by the maternity nurse of the child.
 who testified that Hogue. going un-
 der the name of Alexander, visited the
 woman on Martha Street as her hus- band. She further testified that the
 child strikingly resembled HoEue. She further testified that Hogue took the child from the house on the night of the departure of Miss Black for the sick bed of her mother.
 The owner of the house. in which tho child was born. an honest young mechanic, also testified that Hogue acted toward Miss black alias Mrs. Alexander as a hsuband and Dr. A. H. Montgomery testified that all pnysi- |cian's bills were paid for by Hogue.
 On the other hand, by Dr. Mont
 gomery and other persons, 1t was Iproved that the Black woman had told
 them that she had been a woman of
 any but purity years before she met lHogue.
 !, The case was taken under consider
 ation by Justice Stokes and no argu- ments weS. eide by counsel. He an- nounced his oecision yesterday after noon.
 The habeas corpus proceedings in- stituted by Miss Black for the pos
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