Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 269, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1925 — Page 7

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925

SPANISH WIFE TRUE TO ERRING HUSBAND > Mrs. Prosperina Sterrett Sticks by Spouse Charged With " Deserting Her for Another.

Passionate devotion of a Spanish woman to her husband despite the f&ct that he left her and married another woman and Is now under arrest on a bigamy charge was revealed today by statement of Mrs. Prosperina Sterrett, 29, of 1219 N. Illinois St. Her husband, Jesse Sterrett, 42, ex-soldler who brought Prosperina to the United Staten from Spain, was arrested Saturday

DUNGAN DIARY ENDS MANY SERIOUS TILTS

Daily Record Covers Events of Twe;.<ty-Three Years — • Saved Life of Accused.

Zacharlah T. Dungan, clerk of the Indlanp. Supreme and Appellate Courts, Is the possessor of a diary that would put old Sam Pepys to shame. Dungan’s dairy record covers the toast twenty-three years, Is strictly Kccurate and goes Into Interesting 'details. For Instance, It would be no task for Dungan to tell you exactly what happened March 23, 1903. He would simply rllfle the pages of a musty record book, turn to that date and answer you with a finality that would dismiss all thought of “verifying” his assertion. "Dungan’s Diurnal” dates back to the days when he was district claim Agent of the Wabash Railway, Severing a territory of 918 miles between Danville, 111., and Buffalo, N. Y.. Chicago, 111., and Detroit, Mich. Dairy Saves life Example of the usefulness of ) a diary Is shown In Dungftn’s story of Its salvation of a man doomed to the gallows. It was a murder case. The defendant was accused of murdering a man, using the handle of a shovel to finish the Job. The prosecution contended It snowed on the day of the del. The defense used Dungan as a v.itness and his diary showed tha f it did not snow until the next duy. The prosecutor was not satisfied, neither was the fudge. "How long have you kept that

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charged with deserting her and marrying Miss Helen Barnhill, 22, R. R. A., Box 298. “There Is something wrong with my Jessie,” declared Prosperina, “Maybe he has been drinking or he Is sick. I will do everything I can to get him out of trouble. He loves me and my four babies.” Sterrett claimed his wife threatened to sue for divorce and he took her

diary?” the prosecutor asked. Dungan answered him satisfactorily. “Where were you on such and such a date?” the court asked, still a little dubious. "I was in such and such a town, in such and such hotel, and slept In such and such room,” was Lungan's reply after consulting his lltt. e book. Whereupon the accused men was aoQultted. ‘Bryan C. Winston, general claim agent of the lines, once ask id me concerning weather condltloi s In Lafayette on a certain date,” Dungan related. “My little book said it was foggy when I went through Lafayette early that morning. Settled Claim “The fact settled a claim for the company. A trln had struck a man. The road had exercised every precaution because of the fog, and the man was careless. Our defense was clear,” Dungan said. Dungan’s dally weather records came in handy in various ways and were frequently consulted by road officials in settling matters of moot. The little book shows that Dungan traveled on an average of 35,000 miles annually for twenty-one years —close to a million miles. His little book will tell you, too, the first enow fall every year and the first frost. It Is a compendium of which he naturally Is proud.

at her word and married Miss Barnhill. “I never told Jesse I’d ask for a divorcee” declared the mother. “Jesse was very, very good to me.” “Suppose he should love the other woman better?” she was asked. “He wrnv't do' that,” she said firmly, “He loves me and my babies too much for that.” Sterrett is alleged to have been married twice before ho wedded Prosperina.. Mrs. Sterrett wasn't much concerned about the other woman: she only knew Jesse was in trouble and she wanted to get him out so he

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