Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1912 — SON 39, PADDLED MOTHER, 21 [ARTICLE]

SON 39, PADDLED MOTHER, 21

Reproof for Attending "Movies” Starts Row With Wife of Sixty-Five-Year-Old "Dad.” New York. Twenty-one-year-old Mrs. Madeline “Gray, blonde, petite and charming. Invoked the law to make her stepson, Charley, behave himself. Charley is 39 and too big tb be spanked. The “movies” caused all the trouble. Or maybe matrimony was to blame. A week ago today Madeline was married to Richard Gray by Alderman James Smith in Borough Hall, Brooklyn. Maybe Smith is to blame Richard Gray is 65 and a widower of eight months’ standing. He took his bride home to 864 Gates avenue! Richard is a milk Inspector and has to be ont nights inspecting. Last night Madeline went to the movies and When Mrs. Gray got home Charley reproved her. She started to exercise her parental authority and then she says her stepson “paddled” her. “Do you want to say anything to your stepmother?*’ asked Magistrate McGuire, thinking the trouble might be patched up. “Madeline,” said Charley, "I want

you to promise that Rafter you go home from here you will always be a good mamma to me.” Madeline's giggle was lost In the uproar. The court thought the Gray family had better go home and see If It couldn’t behave itself without the law. “My stepson’s father Isn't anything like hiß child," said Mrs. Gray. “They’re as different as day and night.” '