Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-26
STELLA DONALDSON SUES MAN
WHO DESERTED HER THREE
DAYS AFTER MARRIAGE
RUDELY AWAKENED
FROM LOVES DREAM
Two Others Find Marital Life Fall
ure-Rich's Fate Now in Hands Of
Jury-Attorncy's Close Their Argu.
ments This Morning.

ments This Morning.
From Fridays Daily.
Loves young cream faded swiftly
for Stella NJ Donaldson. who has filed
a suit for divorce because her hus-
band, Harry G. Donaldson. deserted
her three days after her marriage.
According to her petition which she
filed yesterday through her attorney.
w. w. Epps. Mrs. Donaldson states
that she and her husband we're married
on August /, 1904. Their marital
bliss lasted three days and then Don
ALLISON left her without any cause, she
claims. Now she asks that all the
rights of an unmarried woman be re-
stored to her. and also her maiden
name of Stella Mcfarland.
Two More Divorce Cases.
Two other women have not found
married life to be success, according
to the petitions fled in the Office Of
the clerk of the district court yester.
day afternoon. Mrs. Mamie Cline has
sued her husband, Ernest Cline, for
a divorce, alleging cruel and inhuman
treatment and habitual drunkenness.
The petition states that the parties to
the suit we're married February Z,
1897.
Mrs. Mallie Price sues Thomas w.
Price for divorce. alleging cruel and
inhuman treatment, non.support and
statutory charges. She asks for the
custody of a minor child and for as
much alimony as the court believes
her to be entitled to from the nature
of the evidence
Case Goes to the Jury.
The case of Jake Rich, who Is
charged with assaulting his former
sweetheart, Nora Jones, with the in
tent to kill her because she refused
to become reconciled to him, went to
the jury at the close of the morning
session of the district court today.
The arguments of the attorneys occu-
pied the entire morning.
This case has been remarkable
one from the start Only one pre-
emptory challenge was exercised dur
only two or three objections were
made yesterday by opposing attorneys
to the evidence offered
An Escaped Prisoner-AImost.
1t happened in the court house We'd
uGSQdy evening. Inc DallllI ran ITOUl
floor to floor, vainly seeking an es-
capped prisoner. 1t was Jake Rich.
But the lost could not oe found. Both
Judge and prosecuting attorney looked
worried. Finally, as the excitement
was rapidly focusing to the danger
point, Deputy Sheriff Michael Garvin
entered the building, wearing his Gus
tomary smile. Inquiries ELECTED the
following story.
The jury for the Rich trial, having
been impaneled and court having adj
journed, Garvin quietly led his prison
er from the court room and escorted
him back to his apartments in the
Wapello county house of retention.
His departure was unnoticed, and
when the prisoner was missed and
not found to be in the custody of the
bailiff. the ragged edges Of a panic
ensued. GarviH and his smile cleared
| up the mystery. s
Goodrich Trial Begins.
The trial of T. Goodrich, charged
with breaking and entering. was be.
gun this afternoon in the district court
Goodrich is accused of taking two re-
volvers from the store of Jonas Sax on
East Main street on December 8, 1906