The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
GIRL COLLAPSES
AS TRIAL ENDS
Fifteen Year Old Daugh-
ter of Mrs. Tobiasson,
Suffers Break.
HOME IN AMBULANCE
Judge E. B. Belden Takes Di-
vOrce under Amusement to
Consider Property Division.

Nerves, which for three days, had
gradually been Tightening while she
sat in circuit court listening to the air
ing of the martial difficulties of her
mother and step-father, Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Tobiasson, snapped just as the
lawyers had finished summing up their
cases late yesterday, leaving Eleanor
Gustofson, Is years old, quiverirg and
gasping.
Capt. Emil Clausen. who had been
called over from police headquarters
TO interpret a birth certificate in an
other case, CHANGED to be standing
near at the time. Gathering the girl
up in his arms he carried her to the
first floor and out into the air.
Realizing that she was in serious
condition, he dispatched orc of the
bystanders to call DR.. G. f. Adams,
the family physician, who arrived
within a few minutes ind administer
ed sedative. The girl was then re-
moved to her home in the police am
bulance.
Case Under Amusement.
Earlier in the day, Mr.. Tobiasson
had informed his counsel that such
an attack was likely to occur. In sup
port of his belief, he told of a con-
versation with the girl which took
place Wednesday noon, when he met
her while hanging up his coat. lie
asked her how she was, and she an
swered that she was very nervous,
and was afraid that she would be
|.
However, she did not suffer the
breakdown until the case had closed,
and had been taken under advisement
by Judge E. B. Belden. A check of
the records shows that shortly after
the step father had left the house last
year. and before his trial on a charge
of abandonment, she suffered SIM
liar attack and was taken home from
the Mckinley school
In his summary of the case Alfred
Drury, attorney for Mrs. Tobiasson,
showed that the present encumbrances
upon the property total $4,449, leaving
clear only $3.50, one half of which
he said already belonged to the wife.
He said that there was still S361.70
interest to be paid, which had not
been taken into considerations.
Husband Worked 116O Hours.
He said that the husband had fig
rred his 1850 hours of lab II on the
house as worth $1,3O5, bet that he
figured that if the rapidity of his
movement as seen around the court
ahouse was a criterion of his working
speed, the charge would seem TO be
Rather high.
Attorney Drury also pointed out that
sTobiasson had not provided any funds
for the support of the family since
she left the house last year. In addi-
ton he showed that after the marri-
age, while living in Chicago, he had
not continued to pay any rent.
In his rebuttal, Judge R. Y. Baker,
attorney for Tobiasson, asked why the
husband should have been even sup
posed to pay rent, considering the fact
that he was turning over all his earn
ings to Mrs. Tobiasson for the sup
port of the family.
Funds Should Be $3.50.
He said that the funds should be
considered as belonging to both, due
to the fact that Tobiasson had done
work on the Chicago property, and adj
vanced money for the support Of the
family with the understanding that
when the wife received the legacy
from Sweden it would be put in both
names.
Tobiasson, it was said, had been
paying SO a week temporary alimony
since the divorce proceedings were
started. A check of the records show
ed that all of this money, with the
exception of the last weeks payment,
had been made promptly.