The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-29
Cash Paid 10 Husband BY
Wife Paramour, Revealed
At Inquest For Mrs. Dawes

clan said, revealed no other signs
Of violence.
According to the testimony .of
the woman's husband. Raym6nd
Dawes Of Geneseo, q fireman on the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
he and his wife had been estranged
for several years, because Of the
woman's inclination to receive at
tentions from other men. She had
been for about two years intimate
ly acquainted with Weimer. also .
resident and former garage owner
Of Geneseo according to the admis-
sion OF both men.
Father Of Six.
Weimer, who has Z vile and SIX
children residing IN Genesso, but
who has not been living with his
wife because, he alleges. she was
Jealous OF him, had made frequent
visits to the Dawes home IN Cen
eseo. where he paid attention to
Mrs. Dawes.
Weimer offered Dawes q present
Of $1,000 the latter said at the in
quest. He accepted this as gift,
be said. He denies ON being ques-
toned, that It was in payment for
allowing his wife to receive the at-
tentions Of Weimer.
.Dawes said that after the pay
ment of this money. he used to re-
tire at night with the three small
children upstairs, leaving his wife
and Weimer downstairs together.
HE said that he did not interfere
because he believed that II his wife
wanted to act in that way she
might as well pursue her own
course.
Later. according to the testi-
mony Of Weimer, Dawes said that
the $1,000 which he had received
was not enough. He was given
$500 more by Weimer.
He said that he had several
times told his wife that he would
leave her because of her conduct,
and that once they had parted but
she had come back entreating him
to give her another chance because
=, she wanted to go straight" He
took her back. when urged by his
parents. he said, and because Of
the children. They had lived to-
gether at various times, he said,
but had been separated since De-
cember, when she came to Rock
Island to work, taking one Of the
three children with her.
Fortune Teller Warns.
Dawes said he had consulted a
fortune teller and she had told him
Your wife will shoot at Weimer
and hit you" He had therefore
decided to leave matters alone, he
said.
Testimony of Weimer brought
out that written agreement had
been made between himself and
Dawes. in which the latter had
promised not to interfere when at
tentions were paid by Weimer to
his wife.
Weimer said that there was no
doubt in his mind but that Mrs
Dawes was madly in love with him
! She begged him not to leave her
and had frequently said that she
did not care to live II she could moi
have him, he testified.
Had Suicide Obsession.
That the woman was obsessed BY
the idea of taking her own life
statements of both Dawes and Wei.
mer indicated. She made frequent
threats of killing herself, Weimel
said, but he did not take them ser.
iously. She had been told that she
was tubercular, he said, and the
fear that the disease would cause
, her early death, coupled with thu
+. warning Of fortune tellers that sh,
> had not long to live wrought upor
her mental state and made suicid,
an obsession.
The woman had first ACQUIRED
the habit of taking chloroform ant
!. ether when 1t was recommended t,
! her by a friend as a cure for tooth
: ache, the husband said. Later, b,