Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1911 — FINED $100 FOR DESERTION [ARTICLE]

FINED $100 FOR DESERTION

Columbus Man Receives Punishment for Alleged Wife Desertion. ♦ Columbus, Ind., Sept. 15. —Kenneth Reed, son of Charles Reed, a wealthy farmer of Rock Creek township, was convicted of wife desertion in circuit court here and fined SIOO Elizabeth Reed, who filed the charge against him, was given a judgment a year ago for S3OO against her husband’s mother in a SIO,OOO damage suit for alienating her husband’s affections. In both trials testimony was introduced by the plaintiff to show that the mother-in-law was the sole cause of the trouble between the couple.