The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-23
MCCLURE ADMITTED
DESERT|ON or WIFE
Plead Guilty and Will Spend
About Ten Months in
County Jail.

On his plea of guilty to the charge
of wife desertion, preferred by Gwen
dolyn Mcclure, her husband, Glen, was
sentenced to the county Jail for six
months and fined 500 and costs on
Monday by Judge II. c. Fox of the cir
cult court, who felt that the sentence
was exceptionally light, inasmuch as
it was in his power to send him to the
state reformatory for no less than two
years.
Since their marriage, a comparative
ly short time ago, when they eloped to
Kentucky, Mrs. Mcclure informed the
prosecuting attorney that she had had
the munificent sum of 81 expended on
her by her husband, and that since
their marriage she had not been prop
erly cared for and at one time had to
return to her parents. The young Wo-
man, who is mother of baby and
who will be seventeen years old soon,
appeared in court with her mother and
other relatives. Mcclure, who is 20
years old, sat with his mother.
Upon the court passing his sentence
the mother of the young man tossed
her head to- one side, laughed and,
walking to where her daughter-in-law
and her relatives were sitting, said
something which attracted the atten-
ton of all to the group. The mother
of the girl and others paid no atten-
ton to Mrs. Mcclure, who then walked
from the room. following her son, who
was on his way to the Jail in which he
has already spent about two weeks.
The petit jury had been summoned
to hear the case and pass judgment,
for so serious is the crime that none
of the county officials anticipated that
it would end so abruptly by an admit
lance of guilt on the part of the de-
PENDANT. The state was taken COM
pletely by surprise, having prepared
for a hard fought case and had several
witnesses on hand. Attorney Ladd
asked the privilege of addressing the
court and informing him of the
evidence which the state had. Among
the charges detailed was that Mcclure
would not work, though he represented
to his wife he was doing SO. The at
torney said that for some time Nc
| Clure made his youthful wife believe
| he was working at the Starr Piano
company and every morning would
prepare his monday lunch. but while
she was doing this he would secrete
his better clothes out of the house and
upon getting his lunch, would go some
where up town and change clothes and
loaf during the remainder of the day
When evening came he would soil his
face and hands and put on his old
clothes, returning to his home, but as
this sort of business did not pay his
bills, the wife was forced to return tc
her parents. The attorney also stated
that one time Mrs. Mcclure found hel
husband with some girls in the Nc
Clure home smoking cigarettes anc
having good time This Mcclure af
terward denied, but County Attorne,
Carl Harlan, who represented the de
PENDANT, lent dignity to the assertions
of Prosecuting Attorney Ladd by stat
ing that, in sum and substance, they
were true.
Judge Fox gave the young man {
lecture, during which he remained i'm
passive. The court said that such de
pertinent of married men, as alleged
against Mcclure, was responsible fol
much of the marital troubles before
the court. He said that If jury hat
received such testimony, a penitenti
airy sentence would have been imposed
This is the second trial of the kline
ever held in the circuit court. Chal
mers Penny, who was tried some
months ago on charge by his wife
who since has been divorced, was f1net