Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-02
ATTORNEY MAKES
REMARKABLE PLEA
j. Marion Brooks Declares Woman
Should Be Given Release so She
Can Assist the Army and
Navy

"In this day and age when race sui
eide is one of the most terrible factors
a nation must face, it is the duty of a
| court to grant a divorce to woman
when that woman will become the
mother of sons and daughters provided
she is allowed to marry a man whom
she can love and respect"
Such was the statement of Col. j.
Marion Brooks, Los Angeles attorney,
in department nine of the superior
court yesterday, when before Judge
Bordwell he began one Of the most re-
markable arguments in behalf of a
divorce client ever heard in any court.
The case was that of Mrs. Inez NJ.
Dunkle against Lorenzo L. Dunkle.
The man had been an influential and
fairly wealthy oil contractor of Pitts
burg and during her married life Mrs.
Dunkle had become the mother of four
beautiful children. 1t was the attor-
ney's appeal that attracted the atten-
ton of the court and which finally
won in a lost cause the courts consent
to secure evidence for another trial of
the case on a more safe ground.
Makes Remarkable Plea
your HONOR began Col. Brooks,
"this woman is the mother of four
beautiful children. She is a young
woman, strong and healthy and there
is no reason that If she is divorced
from this man and married to man
whom she can love and respect why
she should not give more strong sons
and beautiful daughters to her country.
1t is the duty of court to take that
phase of the divorce law into consid-
Grafton as it is for a court to consider
the more petty details. There is a
mighty navy to be maintained for these
United States, a mighty army to be
reared, mighty constabulary to be
governed. When q woman shows, as
this woman has, that she is possessed
of that rare virtue of this modern day,
the desire to rear strong and beautiful
| children, then it is the duty If an
American court to care for her. She
is the mightiest of all factors il build
ing up the American nation
''Wow, whoopee dee-lighted!' the
strenuous Teddy at Washington must
have yelled, if there is anything in
mental telepathy.
Will Get Another Trial
"This woman married this man and
cared for him." continued the attorney.
"She did her best to be a good wife
to him. She brought boys and girls
into the world for the blessing of their.
home, and yet he treated her shame
fully. He beat her and abused her
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she was compelled to leave him and
come out to California. Now, must
that woman be deprived of the love
and respect of some good man and be
compelled to bear this other mans
name? She has shown her loyalty to
her country by the children she has
given it, The great problem of race
suicide today is that women are COM
PEELED to live with men whom they do
not love and respect sufficiently to
bring children into the world for them.
This woman deserves a divorce and a
chance to remarry, and it is the duty of
the court to grant such chance to
her."
The court, however, did not feelejus-
titled under the conditions, since the
woman had deserted her husband, but
the case is still pending and affidavits
will be secured in the east Immediately
and a charge of cruelty filed.
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