Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-12
SELLS HONOR
OFDAUGHTER
PRICE FATHER OFFERED FOR
A JOB
SCATHlNG REBUkE is GIVEN
WITNESS
Judge Declares Man Is a Stencil in
the NostrIs of All Decent Per-
sons--Wife Is Given
Divorce

One of the most scathing rebukes to
which a man has ever been subjected
in the superior court was yesterday
administered by Judge Walter Bord-
we'll when he gave a decree of divorce
to Theodore Cole.
The man is Judson II. Cole and the
story he told the court, his admissions
that he had tried to sell his daughters
honor and his apparent inability TO
realizing the enormity of his offense
combined to create a feeling of repug-
nance in the minds of those who heard
his statements.
IT will not talk to you longer" de-
clared the judge in a tone of disgust.
"A man like you creates a nausea ting
stencil in the nostrils of every decent
man and woman.
Mrs. Cole brought suit for divorce
last week and the story told at that
time caused the court to continue the
hearing until yesterday, when the
husband was ordered to appear and
answer some of the charges made by
the wife.
Cole was placed on the stand and
asked to tell his story. He said his
wife was a good woman until she be-
came acquainted with a meddlesome
uSlSuuOl VIII idu d queStlOlidDle Cllet"
acter.
"she met man and became at
tached to him. he said, land then
she thought I should be her father
instead of her lover. She met her
affinity and detested me. 1 never
struck her or called her names.
Woman Leaves Home
"she accompanied this affinity many
times and finally left home. Then I
began going with other women.
thought l would make her jealous and
that she would return to me-"
do you mean to say that every
thing she says in her complaint is I'M
true?" asked the court.
Yes, everything, except one remark
that made to her, and that was when
I asked her why she didn't go with
her affinity if she loved him."
How about this man Smith? Did
you tell him he could have improper
relations with your daughter" the
man was asked.
IT told him he could make arrange
ments with her. began Cole.
Answer that question. did you?"
demanded the judge impatiently.
Eyes, sir"
"Well, what have you to say now"
"Well. your honor, circumstances
alter cases. He was monarch. l
was a slave. had to leave Mexico at
that time and come to the United
States. My wife was party to that
arrangement and knew everything he
did. She even offered herself as a
sacrifice to Smith. 1 told her there
was money in it and asked her to get
Smith to sign a check for 500 and
then come away"
And then you expect me to believe
anything you say?" asked the court.
Protecting Others
Cole said he was at the mercy of the
court and declared he was protecting
others. When asked who, he said his
wife.
The arrangement. he said, was made
in 1902 when his daughter was 16 or
II years old, an innocent girl. Smith,
he said, was married and living with
his family at the time, but he ex-
pected him to marry his daughter
later. The daughter, he said was not
a party to the agreement, and at this
point the judge could not restrain his
feelings of disgust. "You are stencil
i'm the nostrils of every decent man
and woman" he said. 1.-THE woman
can have her decree"
Letters were introduced into the di-
vorce trial showing that Cole and G..
w. Smith, an Illinois Central railroad
official of Waterloo, Ia, had planned
TO have Coles daughter go to Chicago
and there meet Smith, who, according
to the letters, had mapped out round
of gayeties with himself and the girl
as the central figures. In return for
the work of the father Cole was to be
given a position as foreman in the
railroad shops at Waterloo, receiving
wages of $40 a day and an oppor-
tunity to advance.
Colo is about so years of age, while
his wife who secured divorce is about
"a. The daughter mentioned in the
case is now married. She is the issue
of a former marriage.