Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — A FAMILY JAR IN COURT. [ARTICLE]

A FAMILY JAR IN COURT.

Squire Irwin had a state caso Wednesday afternoon which seemed to be more of the nature of a family row than anything else, although the evidence of the prosecuting witness being practically unchallenged there was nothing for the court to do but place the husband under SIOO bonds to keep the peace, and Geo. Fate went on the peace bond and the defendant was turned loose. The parties %ere Mr. and Mrs. James Robertson. Robertson lives on the Dr. Besser farm, southeast of Rensselaer several miles. He and his wife have not lived together for the past two or three years, she staying in Lafayette most of the time. She .comes up periodically, however, to see how things are coming on, and then h—is sometimes to pay. Robertson says she has a vinegery disposition and a sharp tongue, and when shp turns loose he can’t get in a word edgewise. On the occasion she complains of she out-talked him, as usual, and he threatened to get a shotgun and stop the flow. Whether this had the desired effect or not the court doesn’t state,'hut she came in and swore out a warrant for his arrest, charging that he had made threats and that she feared he would do her bodily injury. The parties have seven children, five girls and two boys, and, for the childrens’ sake especially, it would seem they ought to try and get along together and make the best of a bad bargain, like hundreds of other people are doing.