Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — This Justice Needs Scales [ARTICLE]

This Justice Needs Scales

Missouri Divorce Suit Has So Many Angles Judge Has Hard Time in Solving Difficult Problems. St Louis. —In deciding a divorce suit at Clayton. Judge McElhlnney Is having to measure Justice with a yard stick and weigh testimony In the terms of pounds and ounces. These two problems have been offered for his consideration: L Can a man, who weighs 140 pounds, knock down his wife, who weighs 200 pounds, twice on Sunday and several times during the week 7 3 Can a man who Is only 4 feet 10 inches tall kick his wife in the shoulder without getting on a chair, when she is standing up and la 5 feet 10 Inches tall? The principals In the case'are Mia. Julia Haemmerele and William Haemmerele of University City. The two problems indicate their conflicting testimony In the case. Other testimony had to do with stories of quarrels In fie Haemmerele home. The wife denied she once broke some of her* husband’s riba with a nightstick after he had been arrested tor breaking some of her fruit Jars with an ax. In reply to a bartender, who said Mr*. Haemmerele had come to his place dally to buy liquor, the wife said her husband sent her because If he went himself he might have to buy somebody a drink. * Thera was much other testimony at the warns sort which kept the courtroom !n a titter and provoked a re monstrance from the woman’s attor-

ney, who declared the case was being made a travesty. SURPRISE FOR POLICE JUDGE Certain Magistrate, Name Not Mentioned, Starts Out to Buy Suspenders, Finds Watch. Baltimore. Md. —It so fell out that in the city of Baltimore, in the of Maryland, on or about this date, a certain police magistrate, whose name lk withheld, as it would make him a marked man in his profession, after the toil and heat of administering Justice to ths public, had betaken himself to the business section tor the purpose of purchasing the wherewithal to maintain, support and uphold his dignity, both as a jurist and a man, towit: A p-r of s-ep-ad-rs. And as he wended his way through the crowded street* what should his eye behold but an object far mors valuable even than that at which he was in search, yes, even more costly than a P-r or s-sp-nd-ra—a gold watch. Now comas the truly wonderful peprt t fit all. Albeit this man was a police magistrate, he forsook his quest, and. retracing his steps to the stations he had just quitted, delivered the aforesaid watch to the police, from whom the owner shortly after recovered It / And If any doubt this tale, but chance to know the justice referred to, let him seek the station and behold the squire wearing the new p-r of s-sp-nd-rs which he bought after returning-the watch.