The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-04-30
FATHER HAS SON;
WIFE AL IM0AY
CASE OF uTTEReAck VS.. UTTER
BACK IN kEokuk co.
TWENTY YEARS FOR ALBANIAN
William Smith Sentenced To TT. Mad
ison BY Judge Anderson
Other Cases in Courts Of
Nearby Counties.

Sigourney, April 29.-The divorce
case of Verne L. Utterback VS.. Maud
NJ .Utterback occupied the attention
of the district court this week, the
lplaintiff getting divorce. The Utter
backs were married about ten years
ago and lived on a farm about three
miles south of Sigourney. They have
one son, now years of age. They
lived happily together until about
three years ago, at about which timq
the plaintiff claimed his wife ceased
| to have any more affection for him;
that she became too familiar with
other men; would often visit GER
tain widower who lived not many
miles distant and stay out late at
postal cards, containing suggestive
pictures and writings which the de.
| hendant was said to have received
from other men. were offered in evi-
dence. The plaintiff asked for di-
yorce on statutory grounds and the
custody of their minor son. The trial
| of the case took most of the day and
after the conclusion of the testimony
the court granted the plaintiff di-
vorce and the custody of their minor
SON. BY agreement of the parties
lentered into beforehand the defendant
was given tho sum OF $4,000 alimony.
Mrs. Utterback did not oppose the
divorce. and ithdrew her appear
ance from the cstee. after the alimony
was agreed upon.
| Given Twenty Years.
Abba, April 29.--Wpliam Smith,
known as ''Alabam, the coIored man
who was convicted last week of rob-
bing Porter Bros cigar store at Abba,
was sentenced yesterday to 20 years
in the penitentiary at Ft, Madison by
Judge d. NJ Anderson.
'Alabam' declared that heySeas not
lguiits yof the@Ghece: 2Eaar E.ar .s.lSt he W.. W.
Irailroaded. Nevertheless the jury
did not think so. as he was found
guilty of the charge of breaking and
entering after the jury had been out
twenty minutes.
| Another Gets Six Years.
Centeryille, April 2g.--Budd Todd
pleaded guilty to manslaughter before
Judge Roberts. Thereupon he was
sentenced to serve six years at Ft.
Madison for killing Albert Jackson, a
Centerville tough, at Mystic last fall,
being the outgrowth of crap game.
He was taken to the penitentiary to-
day. Todd had just been released
from the OtUumwa Jail and went to
Mystic where the next day he was
playing at gambling house. Todd
and Jackson quarreled which resulted
in Todd shooting Jackson. The trou-
BILE was over dispute in the amount
Of change coming to one of the colored
men from the crap game 'i'.7
Leroy Edwards On Trial.
Ottumwa, April 29.-LeRoy Ed
wards. alleged rapist, was placed on
trial today when the selection of the
jury began. Several jurors had been
selected by noon and from indications
the entire jury will be chosen before
the time for adjournment this evening.
The trial will then begin in earnest.
The crime for which Edwards is on
trial is that of a most daring assault
Of Mrs. Clara Erwin of Hayne street,
at the railroad tracks near the pickle
works, on the night of January "a, as
she was on her way home from work
The woman was grabbed from the
rear by coIored man, carried behind
pile of ties and there assaulted
Mrs. Erwin, who is a slightly built
woman, later identified Edwards as
the guilty man. Edwards has been an
inmate of the Abba Jail for safe keep
ing since the time he was placed m-
der arrest when a mob of east end
citizens visited the county Jail here
for him.