The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-06-21
Revelations ia the Trials That
Outdo Fiction.
CHICAGO IN THE LEAD
Mabel Cooley, Aged Twelve, Nitnssse:
for Mother Against Father, WAC
Drove Wife to Bank at Point
of Revolver. Judge Hears
Case of Giddy Things.
Case of Giddy Things.

never produced anything 10 equal GHe
revelation OF the Chicago Divorce
Courts, and moralists and churchmen
would find it hard to deny the justice
and benefit OF divorce il some Of the
cases. Here is a lot that came up N
just one day:
Mabel Cooley, the twelve year-olc
daughter Of MIS-. CLAUDIA NJ. Cooley, O.
South Chicago, whose husband, a. j..
Cooley, was arrested for threatnlng 70
shoot her, told a story which resulted
in the granting Of divorce 90 ne1
mother.
The little girl took the stand after
her mother had testified to long years
OF cruelty, kept in the background
and lived down for the children S
sake until fear Of her life overoame
her. Mabel plainly was frightened
by the unusual scene and the sharp
questions OF the lawyers. She said IL
her lisping little voice:
81 remember when mamma was
choaked by papa long time ago.
He wanted her to go to town aao sne
did not want to. he bit her ard she
was sick long time.
s'Do you remember what took place
on the night Of February p last?"
CHILD TELLS OF ATTACK.
ssOh, yes" answered the child,
''Papa had gone to lodge and we sat
up waiting for him. I went to sleep,
and when I woke up papa was stris
ing mamma. he hit her twice il the
face and her face bled."
''Tbat will do," said Judge FrosS
sharply.
The woman testified that she mar
ried Cooley, a farmer, in 1892. There
were four children, the Oldest being
Mabel. The first incident OF cruelty
she told OF was in 1899, when he
threw glass at her, which shivered
against the wall, flew back and cut
her face.
Again in 1900 she testified, her
husband drove her out into the snow
with a revolver because SIZE refused to
90 to town with him. Of the last in-
cident, on February p, wife and
daughter told the same story.
Neighbors testified, saying that
they had demonstrated often with the
man over his treatment Of his vile,
and bis only excuse was:
how could l help it:o'
rs he a man of violent temper?
asked Judge Frcst.
well" said the witness, a neigh
boring farmer, ''he is the kind OF
man who would put out the eyes OF
his cattle il they did anything be did
not like"
This clinched the case. Mrs. Cooley
at present is teaching school aud re-
siding with her mother. The couple
separated two months ago.
'sG1DDY THING" VERSUS CAD"
Mrs. Stella Brennan, in applying for
divorce from James J. Brennan,
claimed that her husband had thrown
mystic powder" at her on the street
to induce her to return to him after
their separation. Judge Kavannaugh
decided she was 'frivilous person"
and her husband cad" As for the
mystic powder" this was ascribed
to her early reading OF Andsrson's
fairy tales.
The ill-assorted couple were married
last June. Brennan was a WidoWer,
with four children. His girl wife tes.
titled that these children were the
first cayse OF the trouble.
81 did not like them," she said.
James threw kerosene all over me oae
night, and on another occasion hit ms
with wet towel" This was the oc-
casion Of her leaving him. She ran
away to Kalamazoo, Mich, and was
taken back BY her husband. She left
again few weeks later.
IT met James at State and Madison
streets one night" she said, and he
induced me to 90 home by throwing
mystic powder at me. could not
see it, but I knew he did it. I felt
strange and my will power was para,
lyzed."
''She can have q divorce without
slimony,'' said the Judge. The girl
is a giddy thing and the husband is a
cad. She should have had more sense
than to marry a man with four chill
dren. 1t takes long. headed girl to
do that
HUSBAND his OWN LAWYER.
The ,1ninue feature OF a husband
pleading bis own case was witnessed
IN Juoge FroSt'S Court room.
The suit was that OF Mrs. Mary
against August Schemner. TIE wo-
man took the stand with three
months old baby IN Ter arms, a baby
that laughed and crowed to the ois-
traction OF lawyers and Judge, bliss
fully ignorant OF the fact that it was
losing its father.
Mrs. Schenmer's main grounds FOR
divorce appeared to be that her hus-
band, a notorman, had threatened
once to hit her with picture, and on
another occasion had pushed her over
a trunk.
''I was afraid OF him." she reiterat.
ed constantly. When he was sooer
he was a perfectly elegant husband,
but when he was drunk he was
brute.''
Just as her case appeared to be won,
the perfectly elegant husband ap-
peareG in the Court in person. See
ing how things were going, be stopped
forward.
81 would like to ask this woman
few questions, be SAID. The wonan's
lawyer denurred to this, and Ju2ge
Frost heSitated.
ELEGANT" ALSO sIMPERTINENT.
This is not a question Of law, but
OF facts,' said the husband. When
given permission to ask questions, he