The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-06-08
GIVEN KISSES FOR
COIN ONLY walls
& TOMMY IN COURT
Danbury Wooer Says Affinity
Would Not oscblate Except
in Return for Cash.

Chicago. June BY his own CONF
fession, Thomas Foulkes did get some-s
thing of. value from the $11,312 he.
gave to Miss Ladovine Miller and herr
brother. j. Martin Miller.
Whether Oh not he got value recefvedt
will be determined by the Jury in Judge
Dever's court, where Miss Miller and
her brother are on trial on q charge OF
operating q confidence game. whereby
she extracted from Foulkes $4,000 In,
cash and two Iowa farmE.
Foulkes. who is q fagmer frorn
Danbury. Ia, well past tie heyday of
youth. told about 1t with all the blush
Ing embarrassment OF q boy.
Kisses for Money.
When Miss Miller wanted money.
Foulkes told the court and jury. she
put her arms around my neck and
kissed me. and them" he continued In
a hushed voice, she held me off at
arms, length. her hands still resting on
my shoulders, and gazed into my eyes.f
And then?" prompted Assistant,
States Attorney Erickson.
And then I came across"
Foulkes has no told how man
kisses he received or the average price
he paid per kiss. but 1t may become an
Issue in this case when the defense
Foulkes concluded his -four days
session on the witness stand. When tha
case is over he is going back. he says,
to. Danbury to live Oh the remainder OF
his in solitary bachelorhood. He
gives two reasons for his determine
t1on. First, he has no more money:
second, his dream OF love is shattered.
On cross examination by Seymour
Steuman, attorney for the Miiiers,
Foullses testified that he had been x
amined by a doctor, but he did mo-
know what for. He told about a SIC
l hath and oho1ff holnO vrhha1 nfnH2E
while he was enjoying 1t.
DO You want any more Chicago
baths 2" he was asked.
well, no; not like that but 1t was
was expensive. I guess I'll hurry back
to Darbury and be a bachelor, Just
I haven't any money now. It's funny
what a difference a little money
makes"
81 wouldn't marry the best woman
living now" he said. Every nan has
his chance. and I've had mine, but II
a corker," he replied, his face wreatlei
in smiles.
quite positive concerning his presen'
feelings toward Miss Miller, Assistant
States Attorney Erickson asked him
Are you still In love with her?'
mo-" was the curt reply.
Tells Of "coachins."
Foulkes gave testimony at length
concerning the way he had beel
coached by Miss Miller and he
brother, who as an attorney conducte,
his case against the doctor who ex
a1nined him, in answers that he wa
to give to questions, and his genera
line of testimony.
Lincoln park was the Joachim
ground. and, according to his owt
story, Foulkes was not an apt pupi
for Miss Miller, finally becomin
angry, said: IF you can't dc bette
than hat you'd better give up tn
case. You haven't any case and W
are irving to make n for you" h
testified.
Fnulkes admitted he had perjure
himself in that trial and a nlagTi
fed his S35 loss at the bath to $15t
According to his testimony. Mis-
Miller and her brother drilled him i
the recital of a story OF being stoppe
on the street by a man who repre-
scented himself to be a health office
and who wanted TO take him to tn
detention hospital as a smallpox sus
pect, but who finally agreed to "squar
the case" for $500.
Was that story true?" asked AS
sistant States Attorney Erickson.
NO, that's what Miller and his siste
told me TO say replied Foulkes.