Weekly journal-miner., 1921-09-14
MARRYING |S
 EASIEST WAY
 OUT? PERHAPS
That Is Question Raised by De
 fense in Temp Camel Case In- : volving Non-Support; All Day
 Hearing Nears Arguments
iFrom saturday.s pailyl

(From Saturdays Daily) Whether marrying the woman was the easiest way out for Temp Camel remains to be seen. Decision will be in the hands of 12 men some time today.
 A days hearing was given yester- day to the involved affairs of Temp Camel, 21-year-old fresno-expert, who has been in jail twice by reason of alleged marital difficulties and now is on trial for non-support of his wife and her young child. At the close of the testimony, the court adjourned until this morning when Judge Lam son will hear arguments and submit the issues to. the jury.
 Both Camel and Mrs Camel were on the stand yesterday. Under ques- tioning by County Attorney Sullivan and A. L. Hammond for the defensei an intricate, story was brought out and in it there were one or two high lights.
 One of them appeared in the state ment by Mr. Camel that, having been arrested on charge of rape, white slavery and I know not what" he lay overnight in jail and then they told' him he had better marry "the woman" The woman, according to testimony the state tried to stress, was IS years old.
 "They told me-" the defendant said, that was the easiest way. That's what I was hunting-the easiest way out"
 That afternoon, he said, he went before Justice of the Peace McLane and was married. Then he took his wife and got a house and gave her some money.
 At that time the defendant was working for a plumber and getting S day. The first week he gave his wife SEQ. The second she got $S. The third week was the week the de fendant became i'll They called it pneumonia" and she was given I$2.
 Mrs. Camel paid for her accouch- ment, a couple of months after the marriage. The defendant understood she had received something from a legacy; he did not know how much.
 Mrs. Camel made a trip to Kan sas. The defense wanted to know whether she had made any request upon him for support. The state, through R. B. Westervelt, felt that under the institution of marriage, it was not duty devolving upon a wife to make requests for support, that support was an item or commodity that the wife had coming to her in the nature of things.
 On cross-exammation, the defend- ant was asked again as to his opin- ions on the matter of marriage. "lf you were up here in jail tomorrow and could get out by marrying some body, would you do it?
 "Yes, sir, I would" Camel hasten ed to say while MT. Hammond was making one of his upward motions, followed by one to strike out that testimony as improper, immaterial, incompetent and not affecting any matter connected with this case.
 Court On Stand
 The Camel trial won the smoke people a respite while Judge Sweeney took the witness stand, reversing operations greatly, with MT. Lamson sitting as judge Judge Sweeney was called upon by the state to tell what he knew about the status of Mrs. Camel as a ward of the juvenile court. Some of Judge Sweeney's tes- timony was admitted. Ben Powers, probation officer by reason of his ap- pointment, and superior court bailiff by reason of his availability and the necessity of supplementing Bill Poul- son (who iS not twins) was also placed on the stand. His testimony was also partly admitted. During the last hour of the hearing, Mir. Ham mond was rising at each query This resulted in curtailment of evidence to some extent, but Mir. Powers was em- powered by a ruling to read into the record. some of the proceedings of an earlier court case, involving the parties to the present controversy.