Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — ALIMONY CASE WILL LAST FOR SEVERAL DAYS [ARTICLE]

ALIMONY CASE WILL LAST FOR SEVERAL DAYS

i • r ir in -nl o 1 nf'-ifi rL/jTlfl son, in wucq Lire piaiuvxu, . Collison, asks for divorce ana au-; the defendant, Thomas M. Collison, • which has occupied the attention Of 1 the .court since Thursday -of last week, will last for several days yet, probably consuming the greater part of next week, according to present indications, the defense not yet having taken the stand. Two more days will probably be required to introduce the remainder of the evidence of the plaintiff. The court heard evidence until a late hour Tuesday night. ’ , The case is bne of the most sensational ever to be tried in the local court and much of the evidence being introduced by -the Plaintiff m of a startling nature. . « The Collisons were married in. 1893 at Covington, this state, the defendant being in the banking business at that time in Findley, DL Later the family moved to Bartlesville, Okla., where they continued to reside । for some time, Mr. Collison being engaged in the banking business in that city. From Bartlesville the family went to Colorado where the- defendant followed the real estate business. -Their next move took them back to Collison, 111., the home of the defendants father, a small village near Danville, m. About two yean? ago the family made another move, thistime going to Valparaiso, where, the Slaintiff resides at the present time. Ir. and Mrs. Collison separated a little over a year ago. They alre the parents of four Children.» _ . ' The plaintiff seeks to show that the defendant is worth in the neighborhood of one-half million dollars. It is understood that the defense will present evidence to show that the defendant’s wealth does not exceed SIOO,OOO. Dr. Whitney Hall, of Chicago, who testified in the case of Moran vs, the New York Central Railroad here several* months ago, occupied the stand Tuesday night for the plaintiff. ■ ~ .