The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-03
AN INJUSTICE DONE
A WORTHY COUPLE
Charges Made Against Mr..
and Mrs. Alonzo Roebuck
Found Untruthful.

In the Palladium of the eighteenth of
September last, there was published in
the first column of the first page, un-
der the principal heading Grand Jury
Works Hard Today So 1t Can Conclude
job an article which stated that the
Wayne County grand jury had sum-
moned before it on the day previous
witnesses who were reported to know
something about an alleged wife beat
ing case at Fountain City, and that the
pOpulace of that town were much stir
red up over an alleged assault which
AlonZo Roebuck, the station agent Of
the G. r. & l. Ry., Co., at that place,
had made upon his wife, Edna, upon
her return upon Saturday evening,
September 2, from weeks excursion
said to have been spent at Eaton, Ohio
1t was also stated in this article that
Mrs. Roebuck bore the reputation of
being flippant character. and it was
said that she had given her husband
much cause for worry by her strange
and unwarranted action. and that it
was declared that shortly before her
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urday evening. September 2, her hus-
band had given her money with which
to visit her father and mother at Can
tor, O.. her father being first cousin
Of late President William Mckinley,
and that after Mrs. Roebuck had left
her home upon this visit her husband
supposed her to have gone to Canton,
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Canton, found that she was not in that
city at all, whereupon her father
made search for her. and it was said
found her at Eaton, Ohio. enjoying her.
self at the fair in company with man
friend.
1t was also stated in this article that
in any event the grand jury of Wayne
County had learned from women wit
nesses, subpoenaed before it, that
Mrs. Roebuck's father had returned
her to Fountain City, and had there
turned her over to her husband, who,
it was alleged, chastised her severely,
and that it was said that the neighbor-
hood was aroused by her screams for
mercy, and that the next day when
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ment she had received.
1t was further stated in this article
that on the following day Mrs Roe
buck had gone to a neighbor and there
asked for Sundays Palladium and had
stated to the neighbor that she want
ed to read about a railroad wreck,
which had occurred two and one-half
miles east of Richmond, in which
wreck baby had been killed and a
woman's head had been torn off. and
that she wanted to see whether the
woman was still living. and that she
explained to this neighbor that this
wreck had caused her own discolored
eyes and the cash on her forehead.
The article still further stated that
Mrs. Roebuck had not been a witness
against her husband before the grand
jury. but that several neighbors, in
Guiding three women. had been sum-
moned before that body to testify as
to the husbands alleged brutality, and
that while none of the witnesses be-
fore the grand jury had seen the at
tack. they had told the grand jury that
Joe Burgess. school teacher. had wit
messed it and was willing to testify to
it.
The Palladium published the above
statements upon Information which it
had reason at the time to believe relia.