The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
Disaster Often Attends Him Who
Purloins Them.
0Chicaso Becord-Ierald0

Chicago Record Herald.l
The far reaching effects az SO light
thing aS = stolen Kiss may 81 soias "a
ture time turn the whole world tcpsy-
tUrvy. II as stolen kiss the other
day that cost State senator Meyer %
Carbon county. Mont. his reelection
I and turned many votes from President
veit-althouSh he really didn't
need them--in the Yellowstone valley
So great danger Turks in q kiss-it
may transmit disease germs. it may
defeat q candidate for Office. Senator
Meyer. who is a married man with
family, met Miss Groves of Red Lodge
/ IN the street. just aiter dusk (and i'm
Printed "A passionate kiss upon he- liQs
without permission. The incident
aroused a storm of Indignation i'm the
state. became a public scandal and
OvershadOwed the issues of national
and state politics.
beware Of stolen kisses" hereafter
vii b come one Of the important work
ing rules Of campaign managers. It
J was Pascal who said: IF the nose OF
/ Cleopatra had been shorter tle whole
I face Of the earth would nave been diff
! ferent-' Which shows that momentous
events sometimes may flow from "A very
{ trifling cause. The peTilS and pleas
| ures OF the smack reluctant can hardly
/ be Oversstimatcd. In gaming the kisses
/ of Cleopatra, Antony lost an empire
+, Some years ago an English court
( laid down the law that when man
/ kisses d woman against her viii she
( y fully entitled to bite a piece out OF
his nose If she 50 pleaseS. An Aus
tralian who stole q kiss from q pretty
& SRI Jared even worse than Senator
[ Meyer To begin with, he was brought
3 before a magistrate and fined. Then
J ne was horsewhipped by the girls bro
! Their. and harried into BRAN fever by
( his own wife. The clergyman of the
/ parish condemned the affair IN a ser
: mon and the press reviewed il with
/ hostility in print Finally. the cater
/ pillars ate up every blade of the male
/ factors wheat crop.
/ Yet things viii go by cOntraries. It
/ is on the records that stolen kiss
/ once brought a man into possession or
| a fortune. This offender. an obscure
J butcher in Syndey. was prosecuted by
/ his pretty victim for assault He was
/ heavily fined b. the local magistrate
/ and the press gave sensational reports
| of the case This publicity attracted
! the notice of a firm of solicitors who
/ had been appointed trustees Of NalU-
| able property which had been left to
a man by d distant relative twenty
| years earlier They had failed to traCe
/ the heir until this newly acquired
: rewsT1S per nOtOriety revealed his
| wherea bouts and secured HIM his her
/ itage.
| MhCuever- aud wherever -thc N5lue Of
! stolen kisses has been appraised by
courts. opinions have diveTged widely.
| Mrs. Naggie O'Boyle. > years Old, red
Tipped and widow shifted her ScOrn
/ openly when Justice Fitzgerald or the
[ Chicago stoclxyards police court asses
sed Joseph BTannigan $40 and costs, or
/ Sl1-50 in all, for a purloined smack at
her cheek She said $500 would have
been near the mark
Down in the blue grass region re-
| Gently, verdict for 500 was rendered
/ against a l-5ss thief In Rochester, n
/ Y Charles Drobblc was compelled to
pay s40O for kissing Mary r. Dimple.
l his steuOgra pher. only once IN san
! Francisco pretty Adele Nelson sued for
$4,000 because her employer kissed her
! against her Will Mrs Sarah Siayton
of RiChland Center Wis appraised
three stolen kisses at 5000 each. or
SIS. 600 for the lot, to enforce the collec-
ton of which she sued David c. James,
Il prominent Grand Army man, but the
jury divided against her
Kisses given in reluctance are n
priceless commodity" vas the dietum
of an Omaha Judge On this theory ne
sent 10 Jail Miss Fern Atwood, very
good looking young woman, charged
with having kissed man wilfully
and without his consent Passing
! Captain Henry Her an army officer
in the street. she suddenly caught him
| IN her arms, and before he could cry
| Help or "Robbersi" she had i'm
printed six resoucding smacks upon mis-
I ruddy cheek. The captain, confirmed
bachelor and austeTe as a monk, was
/ SCauddIiZed.
Judge Zimmerman of St. Louis re-
Gently handed down the legal opinion
that public kissing is not crime Miss
| ida Goodair, having been arraigned for
that alleged offense. he set her free
/ with the remark that he saw no harm
in it. and would. therefore, not punish
| her for kissing her best young man n
the streets or public parks.