Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-28
KOOYMANS TAKE
THE STAGE AGAIN
Headliners at the Juvenile Court
With Appropriate Stage
Settings.
SOME MORE FAMILY HISTORY.
This Time the Three children occupy
The Lime Light With Jim
Smith as star orator

The Kooymans and Jim Smith, a
police court lawyer, were the hend-
liners before Judge Gowans this morn
ing. and the performance was worth
while. The question before Judge
Gowans was as TO whether or not Kooy-
man and his wife are Mt persons to
have the custody OF their three minor
children, Henry, age 9, Hendriga.
age is, ana Mary, age 6. all Of which
have been adtudged delinquents under
the juvenile court law
Kooyman was placed on the stand
70 testify and In response to questions
by Smith. said that mis- conduct WAS
exemplary. that sometimes he earned
500 a day, that his children had a
good home and plenty to wear. cat
and drink. Kooyman said that he hns
not been drunk for 10 or 20 years ana
that liquor never enters his home. He
says that Hendriga works in a laun-
dry for 81 a week and that other
members bring in enough money to
make the family income $40 a week
whether the father works or not.
However Kooyman said that In eight
years he has not been idle three
months. He has, however worked in
so many places that he had difficulty
in remembering their names. rhe
children are never out at night with
out their parents consent and when
they are out, they know where they
are.
HAVE MANY oUARRELs.
Mr.. Carlson of the county attorneys
office brought out that Kooyman and
his family have some strenuous times.
Kooyman told Carlson that the causc
of all the trouble is that he wants his
own way in the matter of Sringing up
and disciplining the children. He de-
clared that he is wiser than his wife,
that he knows lots more than she
does. and that he has received a su-
perior education. However, kooy-
man admitted that during the arg1-
inents at the Kooyman home dishes
and kitchen tools fly about in the itir
like hawks, occasionally putting such
a dent In the paternal skull that he is
completely knocked out" for short
time and is forced to take up his tenn
porary residence in another home than
his own until the trouble blows over.
CALAMITY NOT DEAD.
do you quarrel with your wife fire.
quently?'' asked Mr. Carlson of Kooy-
man.
Il never quarreled with a woman yet
and never will No, Sir" Kooyman's
answer would indicate the side of the
house ON which the trhIble starts, but
the peace officers who have dealings
with the family so very often have 9TH
er views.
The court chamber ringing with his
police court efoquence, Jim Smith
was a part of the show not to be over
looked He objected in megnphonic
tones to several of Mr.. Carlson's ques-
tons. The court as "A rule oVerrulei
Mr. Smith, seeking to establish all facts
in the case without regard for the fine
points in rules of evidence, as is con
templated by the juvenile court law.
When he rested his case II was with
dramatic appeal to the court that the
custody of the children be awarded
to their parents. The order was not eli
tered and the state produced several
witnesses to rebut the testimony given
by Kooyman Willard Hanson was on
the stand at the noon adjournment OF
court. He testified that his acqualnt-
anceship began when Il complaint was
lodged In his Office by Mrs. Kooyman
and their son, Cornelius, who is now
in jail for threatening to kill his form
er wife. to the effect that Kooyman
had run away TO California with wo-
man and that he had burned house.
During Mr.. Hanson's testimony ro-
cess was taken in the proceedings
The three Kooyman children named
above have been adjudged delinquenta
and are under a suspended sentence to
the Industrial school