The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-05-25
HUSBAND GOES BACK HOME
Wife Charged With Leaving Narrow
Path Goes Away Alone While Hus-
band Says He Will Appeal to Fed
oral Court for Warrants for Both.

The police court witnessed the most
nusual drama in its history on Tues.
day afternoon when the members of the
Helm and Nicols families over at He
bron, Ill, gathered there to decide what
should be done with William Helm, Jr.
and Mrs. Irene Nicols who had been
arrested by the local police on Monday
night The case never reached the dig
nifty of the courts and it was settled so
far as the Kenosha officials were con
cerned by the members of the two
families. Long about four 'clock
Tuesday afternoon lonely looking wo-
man strolled west on Market street. It
was Mrs. Nicols. She had been told by
the police that there was a train out
of Kenosha at Ais going west and that
she was expected to be a passenger on
thai train Her husband, Arthur Mic
OILS, went in an opposite direction He
had refused to condone or forgive the
delinquencies of his wife and he had
asserted that he would take the ques-
tion Of her prosecution and the prose
cution of Helm up with the federal
officials in Chicago. Mrs Nicols APP
peared to be the woman who did not
care, She did not hesitate for min
ute to make admissions to the district
attorney which would have laid Helm
open to conviction under the federal
statute. She held back nothing and In
vited the others to 60 ahead and prose
cute. She waited just a minute for
her husband to relent and then with the
look ON her face which indicated that
she felt what Is the use," she picked
up her grip and started for the railway
station to obey the order of the police
and take the first train out of Kenosha
True enough Mrs. Nicols had done moth.
ing in Kenosha that she had any rea.
son to fear prosecution, but after she
had told her story Of her relations with
Helm she. seemed to be of the opinion
that the orders Of the police were bind.
ing so far as she was concerned.
Helm Is lot was different. 1t was a
forgiving and condoning wife who
faced ham in the police Office "court. .
The wife with Helm s sister had driven
over from Hebron in an automobile
She todd the district attorney that her
husband was good enough for any wo.
man if Mrs, Nicols would just let him
alone. She asserted that he had never
shown any tendency to wander from the
home freside until Mrs. Nicols came
into his life.
Mrs. Helm admitted that she knew
of the former relations between her
husband and the other woman, but she
insisted that she was ready to forgive
and try to forget. She wanted her hus,
band to go back home with her. Mrs
Helm went farther. She pleaded with
Nicols, the husband of the woman, not
TO insist on a prosecution; she even
urged him to take back his own errinp
wife and give her another trial. The
pleading forgiving wife of Helm was
in wide contrast to the other woman in
TIL casa Not once did she make any
appeal to any one for sentimental con.
sideration or judicial clemency. She
just waited to see what was to be done
and when she found out, she went off
alone.
Whether there win be sequel to the
family conference in Kenosha in the
federal courts of the district remains
to be seen. Nicols insisted that he was
not through with the case. Helm, Jr.
and his wife went back to Hebron in
the same automobile, and Mrs. Nicols-
well, there always has to be someone ia
shoulder the responsibility anG possibly
she was the logical person in this case
She said she was going to Harvard and
seek employment.