Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-02
LOVE LASTED Is YEARS
Deposition Taken in Mckenzie Gray
Breach Of Promise Suit Show At
lection Was Ardent for Long
Time.
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Des Moines, Sept. $50 ardent was
J. B. Gray III his wooing of Miss Win
fired Mckenzie that he called on her
as often as three times a day. accord
ing to the testimony of Miss Fannie,
Mckenzie sister of the Tilted school
teacher, who Is suing the Des Moines
man for $4,000 damages for breach Of
promise. The dispositions of Miss Me-
Kenzie's mother, her two sisters, Fan
ME and Mamie, and Sanford Parker,
express agent at Hampton. Ia, were
fled in district court Saturday. The
dispositions were taken by Attorneys
John M. Hemingway, Of Hampton, for
Miss Mckenzie and John Newburn, Of
Das Moines. who represents the De-
PENDANT.
1t developed during the examination
that Mrs. Mckenzie at first objected to
her daughter receiving attentions from
Gray. Fannie Mckenzie testified ais to
this, and said at first her sisters
sweetheart did not call so often be-
cause Of her mothers objections. But
as time wore on, she says, his visits
became more frequent and for several
years he never failed to come once a;
week. Some weeks he did not miss a
day and frequently he ran in as often
as three times a day. He would all
ways stop when he was passing the
house so the sister testified. Miss Nc
n fc1,r xl,o. abr 4 tn, re- f1ld
when her sister first began to receive
attentions from Gray.
II am afraid ! will be compelled to
ask you your age" said Attorney Hem
ingway. -
Il hate to tell you how old 4
am-just so you won't publish It'll
am 20, if figure correctly, replied the
fair witness hesitatingly. She said she,
thought Gray had been calling on her
sister seventeen or eighteen years.
Miss Mckenzie told Of an occasion
when Gray met her and her sister at
the train in Des Moines.
He took her by the hand and kissed
her and shook hands with me-" she
testified. When we left he kissed her
again"
X She also told of an occasion when
Gray visited her sister at the home Of
another sister, Mrs. Robinson, in Min.
neapolis. He seemed very attentive at
that time, the witness asserts
Gray continued writing to Miss Me-
Kenzie almost up to the time he eloped
with Miss Marie Leyeke of Des Monies,
so the sister testified. She received "a
letter from him last week ,while she
was teaching school in Charter Oak,
Iowa, last fall In November the let-
tiers suddenly ceased, and in December
the young woman learned that her
sweetheart of Is years had married am
other. rs
Miss Mckenzie testified that her sis
ter turned down" another sutton while
she was going with Gray, and that at
no time had she ever been unfaithful
to- him. She said she saw him have his
arm around her on one occasion while
they We're driving and that his actions
signified that he had deep affection
for her sister. 1t was thirteen years
ago that Gray called at the Mckenzie
home every day, the witness said.
Mrs. Mckenzie told Of Gray's FREE
quent visits to the house when her.
daughter was at home, and Miss Mamie
Mckenzie, the other sister, testified
along the same lines. She also said that
Gray presented her sister with a watch
several years ago.
Sanford Parker, express agent and
former mayor of Hampton, lives near
the Mckenzie home. He saw Gray at
the house frequently and presumed
that the visits were OF a social nature.
Gray was engaged in the coal business
while he resided at Hampton, the witt
ness said. In his opinion it was not
business that called Gray to the Nc
.kenZie home so often.
The dispositions We're taken before
Shirley w. Clock of Hampton and they
will be used in the trial of the big
breach of promise suit which will be
held some time during the September
term of court. The plaintiff will un-
stand.
BRITT FAMILY TO DENMARK.