The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-23
NAE LRYMPLE
BARES DOMESTIC
TRAGEDY IN TRIAL
She TeStifies Against Husband;
Charges Wife DesertiOn.
Preliminary Hearing of Son OF
Wealthy Saline Farmer.
roo MUCH FATHER-IN-LAW
TOO MUCH FATHER-IN-LAW
Testified She Called Senior Dali
- rympIe Old Devil.
He Threatened to Make 1t Hot
for Her, She Said.

Reciting a story of too much father-
in-law, intermingled with sensational
ALLEGATIONS Of domestic tragedy, Mae
Dalrymple. daughter of J. II. Chrls-
tian. 2OO2 Grove avenue, went on the
stand to testify against Karl Dalrym-
ple. her husband. who went on pre-
liminary trial in the court of Topeka
today before Judge Hugh Fisher on
charge of wife and child desertion- inc
preliminary hearing was concluded
sbortlv before noon and Dalrymple,
sou.of Grant Dalrymple, the wealthy
Saline county farmer, was bound over
10 the district court under bond OF
$500. Besides being complaining wit
ness, in the wife desertion case against
her husband, Mae Dalrymple is suing
her father-in-law, Grant Dalrymple,
in the shawnee county district court
fors $4,000. She charges her father
in-Iaw with alternating her husbands
affections.
the romance that seems to be end
ing in a court tragedy began at the
Kansas State Agricultural college at
Manhattan. Mrs. Dalrymple. young
and pretty testified this morning
Both she and her husband were stu
dents at the college. They rel III
love. Walks through the shady lanes
agreement. Then on May y, 1918, MIS-.
Dairymple said. they went to Kansas
City and were married. on the 9talIu
the girl wife stated that the mar
riage was not an elopement but al
miffed that her parents did not know
the marriage was to take place. she
told them she was going 10 Kansas
CITY to visit her brother and that Kari
was. going with her
Kari vas 19 and she was II. They
could not obtain license in Kansas
therefore the trip to Missouri, she
Back to Saline County.
Following the wedding the couple
went back to New Cambridge, Saline
county. which was the home of karls
parents. she stated. but left there two
months later because they ala not
want to live with his folks.
.He thought he could do better
here she told Rad Lee and Ed
Rooney, who prosecuted the case, but
he asaid if we couldn't get along, we
vyol1ld leave He went to Hutchinson
and found a position IN the salt works
and we lived there from August l,
1913. until March 1, 1914, and then
xye.sSvent to live on his fathers farm
neaf Verdi. Saline county. On July
3O.-1915. l went to New Mexico ana
looked for a position for my husband
Though my brother. We found a po-
sitton but Karl didn't come"
ibid he send you any money for
support"
Mrs. DalrympIe stated that she is
now living with her grandfather, u
w Daily. 1923 College avenue. Her
Youngest child. she said. now months
old, was born in Topeka.
Trouble With Fathcr-in-Iaw.
Legal wrangles between attorneys
were not uncommon in the hearing
this morning. J. J. Schenck repre-
scented Dalrymple and Lee and Rooney
fhe-state. Rooney and Schenck cause6
most of the friction. Schenck, in the
cr,Se-eNa miuatiOn. attempted to get
the girl TO admit that she left her
husband instead of his leaving her.
She Stated one Of the reasons she was
not living in Salina was because of
trouble between her and the senior
Dairymple and ''Dalrymple was al
ways trying to make trouble"
Amy other reason why you couldn't
go back and live With your husband?'
Schenck asked.
Il might if my children were treat
ed right. The father has told me he
SThen YOU don't want to live with
Karl at all?'
Eyes. / do"
4Didn't you write to Karl and tell
him that you thought his father was
an Gold devil2"
ives There was a stir through
the court room. Judge Fisher raped
for order.
4was that your pet name for him ?"
"Not necessarily
fWhen you didn't call him an old
deYil what did YOU call him ?" Rooney
and Lee objected to the question stimuli
taneously. The objection was sus-
tanned.
Did Not Kick stove Over.
%Do you remember getting mad up
there on the farm and kicking the
stoye over"
mo / didn't do anything like that"
Rooney took the witness. Explain
TO the court why you dislil1ed your
fatherin-law"
@He told Karl if he got sick 1 would
leaAe aim. Tie also told me he would
make it so hot for me 1 would have to
leave
swhy did he tell you that?''
.We were quarreling."
Schenck cut in: IF there was any
quarreling about the house you were
generally in it, were you not. What
did YOU say when he told you he
wosld make it hot for you?"
II told him I could stay there as
long as he could.
The senior Dalrymple also told her
that her conduct wash't right, the wife
declared. He said ! was too familiar
with men and said l ought not to
laugh and talk with them. He told
Karl he had his doubts about the old
est boy being Karl's. He also told me
] was lazy" the wife concluded her
testimony. Mrs. Dalrumple's eyes
were dry all through the testimony,
but after she left the stand and took
her seat among her relatives she broke
down and began to sob.
Robert Christian, Mrs. Dalrymple' >
brother, was the next witness to testify.
Hef said he was taking care of Mrs.
Dairymple's oldest child. The state
concluded its evidence. The defendant
waived. There was no argument. Dali
ryInple was bound over to the next
tart,4 of the district court.