The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-04-27
SUES HIS W|FE'S MOTHER
Welt Known Rapid City peo-
pie In Legal Battle
SAYS HIS HOMIE RUINED
Allen against Glenn ems
tracts large Crowd to
Court Room.

At a late hour last evening the
jury we're still out.
The case of Ethan Allen agains
Florence Clemens ct al was called
at 9 a. m. Wednesday morning.
That the case was well known
one and one to arouse general To-
cal interest was evinced by the
number Of eager listeners that
gathered in the court, room during
the course of the morning and at.
ternoon.
After the jury. had been sworn, A.
K. Gardner opened the case for
the plaintiff by stating to the
twelve men what the plaintiff pro.
posed to show.
Mr.. Allen, the plaintiff was then
called upon the witness stand and
testified in his characteristic mod
est manner. He stated that after
his marriage in 1903 he and his
wife had lived happily until the in-
t1uence of the defendant, his
mother-in-law, was brought to beas
upon his wife. He testified that
he was obliged to discontinue his
first abode and take up residence
near his wife's parents. Since that
time the defendent was caller
at his house every day and not un-
frequently several times daily up
to the time of separation from his
wife. The defenden,, Mrs. Glenn.
ems, took every opportunity to
lower and humilfate him in the eyes
of his wife, and she even went so
far as to say "that he must be SUBJ
jucated and the sooner the better. /"
On one occasion when Mr.. AL
lens mother and aunt came, to
visit. him, Mrs. Clemens so far in
terfered in tile sacred family affairs
as TO insist that his wife and child
leave the house while his mother
and aunt were there. Several times
during. the course of an illness from
which Mr.. Allen was suffering Mrs.
Clemens came over and took his
wife away thus depriving him Of
his wife's care in time of need.
After the defendant had succeeded
in parting him and his wife he was
able only on two occasions to see
his own child, and on theilatter &C.
casion he was assaulted by his
father-in-law, a blacksmith of no
mean physique.
After some discussion on the part
Of the attorneys as to the legality of
the question. Mr.. Allen was allowed
to testify that. on ore of the last vis-
its Of bis wife after their estrange.
ment she told him she was going to
leave, himsfor good and that her par.
ents had given her FIVE dollars per
week to do so.
There wasno cross.examinationo of
the witness.
The afternoon session dragged
great deal owing to inability to +se-
sure witnesses promptly.
j. ]. Joy testified for plaintiff that
Clemens had been fined u for as
sault uponyAllen.
E. F. Held testified that in 1904
while having afteamsof horses shod
in Clemens shop Mrs. Clemans
rushed in and after speaking for .
moment with her husband he left the
shop.
Arna Brown stated that she had
heard Mrs. Clemans remark tha,
she was disappointed in Allen.
John Schraeder testified that
while painting and papering the
house where Mr.. and Mrs. Allen had
last lived, Mrs. Clemans showed
such an Inclination to find fault Nth
the work that he asked Alien who
he (Schraeder) was working for.
The defense now took the case and
MRS. Clemens took the stapd.
1nss dignided composed manner