The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

Monday morning. ! had my breakfast
and started with the baby to get the
days groceries. The baby and | were
passing the milkman, and he asked the
J baby if she wanted d puppy dog, and OF
i course the baby was only too anxious
We left the milkman's and proceeded
on our way. Before we reached the
store was forced TO take the dog from
the child in order TO save it's lie, as
| the baby had strange hold on it.
II saw then that the child was too
young to have such u young dog, and
the dog was too young 10 have such a
young mistress. The. grocer noticed the
! puppy which / held in my arms, and
| offered me 81 for him, which I accepted.
pocketed the 81 and said nothing to
! the wife of the whole proceeding. in
tending to have that 81 as q little extra
spending money.
'.All went well that day. but the next
| the fun began. The wife went over to
the grocery and the groceryman in
formed her that he had her little pet
her cute little pet
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THE astonished grocer hastened to
apologize and explain that I had sold
him a dog the day before, a fox terrier
puppy dog, for 81. He thought she
knew all about it. The wife started for
but with blood in her eye for me. The
milkman asked how she liked the little
dog. In a burst of righteous indigna-
ton she informed him that she hadn't
seen any dog. and the only one that
she knew anything about was one l had
sold the grocery man.
THAT evening, when 1 got up, wife
was waiting with the wrath she had
nursed since leaving the grocery store.
l was all unsuspecting, and was so
greatly surprised that I Immediately
confessed to my sin as charged and
gave up $1.60. The other 40 cents [ had
spent in riotous living. / came home
next morning and found the atmosphere
way below zero. So, after breakfast, I
went over to the BARRIERS. The barber
shop was next door to the grocery.
We heard ruction next door, German
swear words, the fall of canned goods
from the shelves, walls of the grocery
man, frightened squaks of a puppy, a
door slammed, and then all was still.
Il went home. Also [ went around
the block the other way so as not to
pass the mikman's house.
1.-TWO days after I was served with a
subpoena as witness for the grocery
man, who had sworn it out, also a war
rant for the milkman. When the case
was called the justice returned the dog
to the grocery man and fined the milk
man SIS and costs for assaulting the
grocer. I was working DAYS then and
had to get off half a day to appear in
court and testify.
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''I went back to work i'll great relief,
thinking this would be the end of the
the whole business, but two days after
ward L was arrested on a warrant
sworn out before another justice of the
peace by the nlilkman. / could not get
bail and was forced to spend the night
in Jail. My wife, Immediately after my
arrest, packed up bag, baggage, and
baby, and left for her mothers house.
The next morning the milkInan and his
wife both swore that they had not given
me the dog, but had seen me steal it.
The judge would not give my story
credence, as the preponderance of evil
dence was all on the milkman's side and
I had no witnesses of the transaction.
Result, 1 was fined $50 and costs for
stealing the dog and selling him to
the grocer. The grocer was ordered tc
return the dog 10 the milkman.
II did not have the money with which
to pay my fine and knew of no one in
the city who would or could loan me
that amount. So was forced to remain
a week in duance vile until a letter
for assistance had time to reach my
relatives and return. My wife's rela-
tives never had liked me and had OPP
posed our marriage, and so would do
nothing for me. Well, when the money
did come and I paid my fine, I re-
turned to the gas house and found that
another man had been engaged in my
place.
so / lost my job; also my wife, at
the instigation of her parents, began
suit for divorce, AS l did not fight it.
she. received a, decree, with the custody
of the baby. Job gone, home gone, wife
gone, baby gone, all on account of a
black, measley fox terrier pup