Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-07
ANOTHER FAMILY
JAR IN YORKTOWN
|Nv0kES THE Law
Conjugal Troubles of Charles
And Cynthia York Dissipated
BY Court-Several Other
Cases Disposed of

Another chapter Of the family
troubles of the Yorks Of Yorktown
claimed the attention Of the municipal
court for portion Of the time Tues
Gay afternoon when Cynthia York,
young and not uncomely, was before
the court to answer to a charge which
was preferred against her by her hus-
band, Charles Howard York, and which
was in effect that she was not con-
Quoting herself as a married woman
should who considers the affection and
respect Of her husband Of any value.
That the case had attracted no small
amount of interest in Yorktown So
ciety was evidenced by the presence in
court of quite number of the leaders
OF the social set Of that community,
SO that Cynthia. who might otherwise
have felt more or less diff1dence in
the presence Of strangers. was made
by the presence Of relatives to feel
quite at home and answered the CUES
tions of the court with an amount Of
confidence that was trifle remarkable
under the circumstances. She employed
no counsel to defend her and when It
came to the matter Of a plea she al
lowed that she was not guilty
Her husband was the principal wit
ness against her, and while as might
be expected he objected to her sus-
pected conduct he did not seem to be
so anxious to punish her as he was to
have her return to the straight and
narrow path, and ventured the belief
that if the old folks (meaning Gym
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he and Cynthia could get along all
right. Cynthia, on her part, did not
| seem to feel any very deep-rooted ami
| mostly toward her husband, as she
beamed on him at intervals during the
hearing and bestowed upon him from
time to time a smile that was surely
more than skin deep.
The case was gone into at some
length. even to a description of the
York homestead, which left in the
minds of those present in the court
room. after the members of the York
household had been enumerated,
query as to how all could be slowed
away when the hours for slumber
came. which was however explained to
certain extent when the statement
vas iAoOC tildl tiIe HUE sc, "HlSn was
formerly kept in one of the rooms had
been removed to shed which had
been built for it and the room de-
voted for household uses.
At the conclusion of the hearing
Cynthia was found guilty and given a
sentence of 90 days in Jail, but in view
of the fact that there seemed to be
| indications of clearing weather in her
family affairs. and that she agreed to
go home with her husband and behave
| herself sentence was suspended in or
der that she might have a chance to
| carry out her good intentions.
| Frank Cushman of Portland was ar
| raigned before the court for driving
| an automobile without having alta ched
to it the proper registry tags. those
| carried being made Of cardboard. He
| explained that he had taken the car
! in Portland as ii was given to him,
| and allowed that it was the custom in
| that city to drive automobiles bearing
| tags of that kind, but the court found
| him guilty and imposed fine Of s25,
which he paid.
Abraham Silver, who claimed New
| York as his home and had been ar
rested for evading carfare on the 2
| o'clock car from Winthrop Tuesday af-
| ternoon and pleaded not guilty. He was
! found guilty and fined IS, but sentence
| was suspended.