The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1905-09-07
ROMEO AND JULIET
N MODERN LIFE
WARRINGTON COUNTY cAeg n
eurRrME couRr.
IAcnRArKp HEART INVOLVED
FARMER Changed Affections 10 Ancsh
a. tlAnchs Mckee secured
1880 for Banks MoGeer
Marrying Cousin,

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Dee Molncs, Sept. 1.-The Mckee.
Mouser breach OF promise case - a
sort Of Romeo and Juliet aifair---has
reached tho supreme court Banks
Mouser, the defendant, appealed II
yesterday. There IL $1,000 in Il for
him II he wins. for the Jury In Judge
w. q. Clements court In washington
county gave pretty Blanche Mckee a
verdict in that amount.
Blanche convinced the Jury that
Banks had begun paying her attention
In october, 1896, when she was sweet
i6; that they became engaged in June,
1899, and she offered to release him
from the engagement in December,
1901, but the defendant would have
no release and insisted in a renewal
Of the engagement, and in September.
1903, she consented to withdraw her
dismissal and again accept him as
sutton and engaged lover.
But in August of 1904 he notified
her that he would not marry her and
in the first week OF September led to
the altar his cousin, Eva Booth, now
his wife. whereupon Miss Mckee
sued him for $1,000 and when the
court and the jury had done with the
case she found herself possessed OF q
$500 judgment against his $4,000
farm, which she will seek to sustain
in the supreme court, now that the
young man has appealed the case.
Mouser Is about 40 years old and
no denied strenuously that the en-.
gagement which no admits prior TO
1901 ever was renewed after the fair
one had broken II. He polats out the
fact that she was going with another
young man than himself and no ask.
ed her to intercede with her cousin,
Miss Booth. TO induce Her to go with
him; that she did thig and Miss Booth
did accept his atteHAions.
Love as|a Blind.
But Miss Mckee declares that this
was afyiind to fool Mrs. Mouser, the
fond mother OF the young man in the
case, the old folks OF the two families
having a feud, in this respect as many
others the case resembling Shake.
peare's immortal love tragedy OF the
sclons Of the houses OF Capulet and
Montague.
The feature of the abstract filed
with the supreme court is the letters
Of the young man to his lady, They
differ materially from ordinary love
letters and there is nothing gushing
about them. One, however might well
do as the model for a model letter
writer, and when the attorneys came
TO ask the young man about writing
1t he admitted that he knew II by
heart and had written II out for his
attorneys. He denied the attorneys
inSinuation that whenever he wanted
to make love TO a girl he wrote the
Same letter.
The letters may be the feature OF
the testimony--the young lady's let.
tiers were destroyed by the defendant
but her story OF the proposal and
what followed is the interesting thing
about tho abstract. As there given II
follows:
Now after you went to the Gordon
place, did he continue HIS visits TO
your place?
He visited me there about once ey-
cry two weeks. IL depended on what
was going on. Sometimes he would
como once week or twice a week II
there was a sociable or party or some.
thing. He generally came on Sunday.
That was during the year 1899.
Now, about the "a OF June, 1899,
was the defendant at your house at
the Gordon place?
Was Late Slayer.
He was. lie came in the evening, !
should Judge about or 8 o'clock.
There was a gathering Of young peo.
pie Of the neighborhood came in that
evening and he was among the com.
pany. The company stayed until
10:So or II o'clock. Mouser stayed all
night. This was Saturday night. He
FcmaiHsc tho day and until the next
evening. Elmer Mcdowell stayed.
He is nov my brother in.iaw, no was
not then.
Did you have any Conversation that
night with defendant about love or
marriage?