The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-04
A Slump in Marriage Licenses
This Spring.
A Lawsuit That Has Outlived
the Principals in Case.

wealthy farm and city property owner
of this county. The Hardestys were
married In 1884. 1t was not until the
past few years that Mrs. Harris in
terrupted their domestic tranquility.
according to the petition filed in the
damage suit. Then, however. COM
plains Mrs Hardesty. her husband was
lured into all sorts of compromising
situations and finally actually led to
desert his home. Matters were made
worse says Mrs. Hardesty in her petit
ton, by the attitude of Mrs.. Harris who
she says, called her up on the phone
and derided her at the loss of the hus-
bands affection.
Trouble ON Woods Street.
Trouble broke out on Woods street
yesterday afternoon when ]. L. Will
liams. colored. abused his wife. It will
be resumed in the court of Topeka
when Mr.. Williams answers the charge
of stealing his brother Richards shot
gum. Officially, nothing has yet been
said about his Offense of using first
the shotgun and afterward q pocket
knife on the person of his other
brother, Cal. Special Deputy Bacon
Sunday night brought in the turbulent
member of the williams family who
is now cooling off in the county Jail.
His brothers are not disposed to make
the case serious and the possible
charge of assault may not be lodged
against him.
After his wife had complained of
his mistreatment to her brOther-in-
law, Richard. who lives at 9O4 Woods
street. 1t is alleged thatJ. L: Williams
left his own home across the street
and purioined q $3.50 shotgun from
Richards house and with this weapon
laid in ambuscade for his brother. who
was absent at church. Brother Cal
got home first and wA4speacefully TAX
| ing a drink at the wen when Brother
]. L. mistakenly fired upon him. He
| had not. figured the range and missed
and it was while relq3dtng his weapon
shotgun was captureastn the ensuing
rush upon the enemy but. Brother J.
L. fished up.a pocketkhife and. under
cover OF darkness, zaaade flank
% move naa which 19t @ 1e sd nrothsp
when it is no longer neAded as evil
dence. Richards devotional pursuits
kept him away from the scene of ac.
ton until his warlike brother had been
removed.
The two brothers told Radcliffe Lee.
deputy county attorney, they merely
desired that Brother !. l. be kept in a
quiet place until he had time to re-
cover from an overdose of bad whis-
ky and they are 10th to press charges
more serious than the mild one of
petit larceny.
/ Slump In Marriage Licenses.
A slight slump in the marriage Ii
cense business this spring is noted in
the records of the probate court from
which report is today being made to
the state department of vital statistics.
Sixty-nine licenses to marry were
granted in April and but SIS in March OF
this year. The corresponding months
of last year showed Y licenses each.
| Ira C. Hawver of San Diego, Cali
fornia, and Mrs. Flora A. LETTERS of To-
pela. were married today by Probate
Judge Hugh Mcfarland.
(! Lawsuit Outlives Principals.
I Their litigation has outlived the prin-
i cipals in a suit brought this morning
by Robert C. Postlethwaite, admins
traitor of the estate Of John c.. of the
same name, against the heirs OF WINS
Edison, the defendants being Frank =.
Edison and Jessie L. McCabe. In 1907
John c. Postlethwaite and Willis Ed
| son, were co-defendants. with others, in
q suit in which affairs OF the Masonic
Mutual Benefit Society were involved.
They lost the suit and became liable for
a Judgment of about. $500. including
costs. r. C. Postlethwaite.s petition to-
day recites that John C. Postlethwaite
| paid the amount of the judgment rath-
| er than be involved in proceedings for
| its collection which might have arisen
! out of the fact that other defendants
were unable to pay their shares. Will
| lis Edison. it is claimed. left home
stead exempt from execution. BY the
death of Willis Edison and his wife. II
is claimed. the property has ceased to
be exempt and it is now sought to OBJ
| tain a 1udkment reviving the old judg-
ment In the case of w. W. Harvey. re-
j ceiver of the Masonic Mutual BENEFIT
j Society against Postlethwaite, Edison
and others, as a lien against the old
| Edison homestead.
Judge Dana Lectures Jury.
| you had Just as well throw dice
l on the table as to employ that method
for arriving at q verdict, and II the
| court il aware that q verdict has been
reached by such q process 1t VIII be
rejected" declared Judge A. w. Dana
in the first division OF, the district
court this morning when lecturtng the
new panel of jurors upon the evils OF
/ the "quotient system.
| A number of cases Involving money
judgments have in times past been
sent back for retrial after jury has
| compromise Of the opinions of the
several jurors and q favorite method
| of compromising has been the quo
tient system" involving q summing up
of the various amounts considered
| just by the differing jurors and its
division by the number of items en-
tered into that total The new jury
reported for business this morning
and listened to Judge Dana's warn
ing in which he pointed to the errors
/ OF by-gone panels.
Six 1urymen from the second dtvi-
sion, the court presided 0ver by Judge
iWhitcomb who n now an route to
Europe, were held for duty in Judge
Dana's court They are h y. Leese.
= n Beal. A H Purdy. :. =. Mar
thony.
The seventeen Who Win serve - the
regular panel IN Dnna's court are Az
tel AndeEson. 3 n Harrmeton. p =.