Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-05-12
GLEN FLORA PAIR
Is CONVICTED
Jury Finds Mrs. Stoker and
Rathsack Guilty of Adul-
tery.-Sentence Not
Passed
ROHRER AND CONWELL
GUILTY IN CAR CASES
Women Sitting I'm Case of Jaeger
Against Fire Insurance Co..
Cases Continued

SdStS SOItlIutu
The jury in the Stoker-Rathsack
guilty after being out three hours.
Sentence has not been pronounced. The
penalty is from one to three years in
the penitentiary or fine of from 5000
to $1,000.
District Attorney Falge, for the
state, and L. E. McGill, for the de-
PENDANTS, closed their addresses to the
jury just before O'Clock Wednesday
afternoon, and the judge then charged
the jury. They returned a verdict
about 8 p. m. The trial occupied day
and One-half.
Statements from some OF the jurors
were that the jury stood five for ac-
quittal and seven for conviction on the
first vote and six to nine ON the Sec
0nd vote.
Women Struck Off
The jury was composed of the fol-
lowing persons: Oscar zimmerman. j.
ton, Richard Huxtable, Louis Leon
hard L. D. ST. Clair, Harold Sher-
wood, Louis Stassel, Forest Triplett,
Clarence Wall, William Wright. OF
the twenty jurors drawn, three were
women, viz: Nancy Belknap, Mrs. G..
A, Beebe and Mildred Calkins. These
women and five men were struck off
four by each side
The case attracted considerable at
tention and the scandalous details in
terested morbid crowd. About
twenty witnesses were sworn.
This case came to the circuit court
from the Rusk county municipal court,
when Judge Carow decided that the
testimony given in that court was suf-
fiicient to hold the defendants, Mrs.
Emma Stoker and George Rathsack,
for trial Mrs. Stoker is the wife Of
Ed St0ker. The parties reside at Glen
Flora. The husband brought the adul-
terry charges against his wife and his
neighbor, George Rathsack, and was
the complaining and the leading wit
ness for the state.
Both Want Divorce
Stoker and his wife were married
in 1904 and he is % years older than
she. They have three children-all
daughters. Their marital troubles
started about a year ago, and Mrs.
Stoker sued her husband for divorce.
He set up a counter claim and asked
for a divorce. Later he started an
action against Rathsack for alienation
of his wife's affections which is on the
calendar for trial
AS was expected, A. f. ROhrer plead
guilty to charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud the Hartford Insurance Co in
an attempt to make it appear that an
automobile in which he was part own
er was stolen, when in fact it was not,
and to collect the theft insurance from
the insurance company. He was adj
judged to pay fine of $500 and the
costs, in default of which payment he
is to serve five months in the county
Jail at hard labor. He was turned
over to the custody of the sheriff.
COnwel Changes Front
In the case of the state against V.
e. Conwell, the defendant plead gull
ty after maintaining his innocence al
most to the last. He appeared before
Judge Wickham yesterday morning to
plead and receive his sentence. Con-
well was charged with unlawfully,
knowingly and designedly falsely pre-
tend to the Hartford Insurance Com
pany that the Overland car owned by
him was struck by lightning on June
%, 1921, and thereby burned and by
the reason of the false pretenses and
misrepresentation so made to deliver
and did deliver to Conwell S1050, the
amount due him under the terms of
the insurance policy he held on the
car.
Following Conwell's plea of guilty
to the charges, Judge Wickham SEN
fenced him to pay a fine of $500 and
the costs, S25, or to spend not longer
than six months in the county Jail.
He was Immediately remanded to the
custody of the sheriff.
First Women Jurors
The action of Paul Jaeger against
the Farmers Mutual Town Fire In
surance Company of Rusk county is
now on trial This is an action by the
plaintiff against the insurance company
to recover the amount of insurance he
held on cheese factory in the town
of Flambeau and which was destroyed
by fire about a year ago.
Atty. j. w. Carow, who is secretary
of the company, is handling the case
for the company and Thomas & Fisher