Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-17
Marshalltown Bridegroom Pays
Wife's Fine as Wedding
Day Gift
BRIDE HAD ANOTHER eLovER
After Ida Strong Pleads Guilty to Dis
orderly Conduct, Her New Husband
J. II. Hull, a Restaurant Owner OF
This City, Pays Fine-Thomas Belt
gel Also Fined.

| After James H. Hull, a South Sec
to take Ida Strong, of this city. for
better or worse, at Waterloo this NOR
ming, the newly-wedded pair marched
without the strains of Mendelssohn to
the police court, where the bride
pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct,
and was fined s25, which the bride
groom paid. A pearl brooch set With
diamonds, did not figure in the we'd
ding-day gift of the groom.
James Fl. Hull, aged 81. and Ida
strong. aged 80, plighted their troth at
$3.50 by the clock in the Waterloo
court house, presuming the court house
has a clock. as all well-regulated court
houses should. Rev. George Knoche,
deputy county recorder. performed the
ceremony, in the office of the clerk
Of the district court With an air of
nonchalance the groom announced that
he and Miss Strong had been living
together for sixteen years under COM
mon law, but they had decided IL
would be better to get married in the
generally accepted way.
Go Directly to Police Court.
Directly after the ceremony the eou-
pie went to police court, where the
bride had been cited to appear on 4
charge of disorderly conduct, preferred
by City Detective Houston. She en-
tered a plea Of guilty, and was fined
$25, which Hull promptly paid. In
police court Miss Strong gave hen
name as Mrs. J. H. Howe.
Tuesday night it is alleged that Miss
Strong and Thomas Bethel, also of
this city. registered at the American
house at Waterloo, as Thomas Mills
and wife. The woman returned to
this city and complained to Hull that
Bethel had locked her up in room
and abused her. Hull wouldn't stand
for any such abuse to his BRIDE to- be,
SO accompanied her to Waterloo last
night, Miss Strong wanting to have
Bethel arrested. The complaint came
to the notice of the police in that way.
the officers not having previously
had ever occupied room at the Amer
lean. When they found that they had.
and that they were not Thomas Mills
and wife, but rather Thomas Bethel
and Ida Strong, they arrested both on
a disorderly conduct charge.
Today Bethel was also arraigned
pleaded guilty, and was fined s25. He
had no money, and was sent to jail for
five and one-half days work at pound
ing rock. Bethel, until two weeks ago,
worked for the Let's Fletcher COM
pany as a floor man, and boarded with
Hull. He is said to have a wife living
at Monroe, who teaches school, also
a daughter. 1t is stated that another
information will be filed by the police
against Bethel. charging carrying con-
cealed weapons. Bethel had a loaded
revolver on his person when arrested,
but he denied the ownership Of the
weapon.
Hull and his bride are due to reach
Marshalltown from Waterloo at $3.50
this evening.
In Justice Peek's court Tuesday af-
ternoon Hull was discharged on a
charge of assault and battery, preferred
by Ida Strong.
The fact that Miss Strong was in
Waterloo at the time she was to have
appeared against Hull, further explains
her non-appearance.