The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-24
CRIED ALL NIGHT.
When Wife Did This John Haw-
kins Left.
And He Hasn't Supported His
Family Since.
HAILED B. FORE COURT
Made to Tell What He Did With
Money.
HAILED B. FORE COURT
Then Is Fined 500 as a De-
linQuent Parent.

There are no other means SO success
full in opening up the secrets or do
nestle life as a delinquent parent case
in the juvenile court. Let a wife arrive
at that point of bitterness where she
has her husband arrested and the two
are then ready to bare their closest
relations that outsiders may decide
which was the more abused.
One of these cases was tried out in
the juvenile court this morning. With
fl ;ial lines tightly drawn and eyes
aarting fire, Mrs. Eva Hawkins, with
her three small children, and John
Hawkins glared at each other before
Judge Pro Tenn. Devendorf.
One of the milder passages was re-
lated by John Hawkins in his explana-
ton of why he left home at 129 Branner
street on January 20, since which time,
it is charged he has not provided for
his family.
1--WE had been jo1lying each other the
evening before but when we went to
bed l said something that made her
sore. Just stalling her, 1 said we'd just
come up to the court house the next
day and get separation. Then she
began to cry and I turned over and
went to sleep. I don't know how long
she cried. Maybe she cried all night
Anyhow when I got up in the morn
ing she wouldn't stir. I got my own
breakfast and she came out and helped
me eat it.
"Then she said that if we We're going
to separate L might as well go pack my
grip and get right out. 1 was just get
ting my lunch ready to go to the shops
but that made me mad so 1 left"
You didn't care how much you
hurt your wife and you didn't care
how long she cried that night, did
your asked James Mcclure on cross
examination.
mo, 1 didn't retorted Hawkins. az
IL I-se
her trying to get her to shut up, but
she kept on cryin', SO I turned over
and went to sleep. What did you
think I'd do-take her in my arms
and walk around the room with her
like a baby?''
Hawkins said that when he left he
gave his wife Sc and sent out a dol
lars worth of coal, but that he has
sent them nothing else. He went to
Peabody to look for work and work.
ed awhile on a farm. Then he re-
turned and has worked on a farm near
here with the expectation of getting
$40 a month. He admitted that he
had gotten SIG in pay since Janu-
airy 90.
'FWhat did you do with that SIC ?
You did not send any of it to these
children or your wife, did you?' asked
Mcclure.
What did doswith that money!
repeated Hawkins. "Why, [ spent a
Peabody and that man there (point-
ing to A. J. Bolinger, his attorney has
the rest of it,
your father gave you some money,
didn't he?"
"He gave me so cents,''
"What did you do with that so
cents ?''
The witness declined to answer. But
his wife volunteered the information.
81 can tell you what he did with that
money. He spent it on another woman"
1t was this woman, said Mrs. Haw-
kins, who caused all the trouble. She
gave her name as Mrs. Van Cleve, a
woman with a husband of her own.
Hawkins admitted to having been
several places with Mrs. Van Cleve but
said she paid her own way and that
the trouble with his wife was due to
her unreasonable jealousy.
When the husband was asked how
much he had contributed to the sup
port of each of his children separately,
he answered, 81 haven't sent anything
to any of the outfit
Judge Devendorf closed the affair by
filming the defendant 500 and costs but
agreed to suspend sentence as long as
Hawkins supplied a 5000 bond and con-
tributed SO a month to his family.