The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-19
COOPER CASE is OVER.
aged Husband Receives AIerciless
Playing by Attorney.

The closing arguments were made IN
the district court last night in the
Cooper divorce case which has been on
trial for five days and part OF two
nights. W. W. Harvey, John Martln
and J. u. Larimer are attorneys Ior MI
Cooper while his Wifes interests are
being looked after by w. r. Etazen.
Miss Belle Stookeye, a sister of Mrs
Cooper, was on the stand most or the
time Monday afternoon as well as a
portion of the time last evening. She
said. Mr. Cooper made d great many
fine promises to myself and my sister
before they were married and then
forgot them as soon as the ceremony
was performed. He promised that
trip would be taken to California and
around the coast by himself and my
sister and that if / did not care to
take this trip with them that / should
have a trip to Florida during the
winter.
1--WE had no sooner got located in
his home at S24 Jackson street than he
began to complain and nagged almost
constantly at both of US"
Did you not get sarcastic at times
and do a little nagging yourself, ask
ed Attorney Harvey
"WeH, yes; sometimes his naggtng
became unbearable and I may have
said some things to him. Once he told
me that murder was branded on my
face and that I looked like a second
Jessie Morrison Then L said some
things to him, for neither God, man
nor the devil can make such an ac-
cusation to me and go unrebuked..
"hfr Cooper had given me a few lit
tie trinkets in the way of jewelry and
when I found that there must be a
separation I went to him and gave
them back to him and told him that
for one would not live under his roof
another day"
In his argument to the court Attor-
ney W. r. Hazen took occasion to ap-
ply about every undesirable descrip-
tive epithet in his vocabulary to the
plaintiff in the case. He described
him as ga grasping misery old skin
flint, a money loving old reprobate, a
pinchy old scoundrel who after max
ing promises of a home and a life of
ease asked his wife to come and live
the life of hog which he had been
living. He practiced deceit upon her
from the very moment that he met her
at the home of this matchmaker,
Roberts, until the time they were mar
ried and then his true self began TO
assert itself.
I'VE do not contend" said Attorney
Hazen, chat there was not enough
food in the house, such as it was, but 1t
was not fit for a decent person to eat.
Besides the parties to this suit there
are two witnesses who have 'butted in
One of them this man Roberts, as
match-make and the other a Mrs.
Mckay, who comes up from Kansas
city to testify against these women
who furnished her with a home and
to whom she is now indebted for
clothing which they furnish ed her. She
may well be compared with the Bible
character of Judas. She is a CRATER.
Now it is a matter of record. your
honor, that in cases of this kind that
the alimony awarded is frequently
from $4,000 to $4,000, for we have
proven that Mr. Cooper is worth from
thirty to sixty thousand dollars, and L
feel that this is one of those cases
where the alimony should be sufficient
to partially make amends to my client
for the injustice that this man Cooper
has done her. If she should live to be
one hundred years of age she could
never outlive the disgrace of having
been the divorced wife of old man
Cooper"
The pleas of the attorneys for Mr..
Cooper were more moderate and con-
fined entirely to the evidence in the
case. Only once or twice was a refer
ence made to the plaintiff which re-
dected upon her.
The case was taken under advise
ment by Judge Dana and the decision
will be handed down later in the term.