Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — THE CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUIT COURT.

In the Kroeger divorce case the court granted a divorce to the plaintiff, Mary C. Kroeger. As most of the property was originally her’s by a former marriage, she was given the greater part of it. The defendant, Frederick Kroeger, was given a lesser portion. Another divorce granted was to May Bums from. Charles Burns. This was another of the short but not sweet, marriages characteristic of the matrimonial cyclone district, heretofore defined. They were married Aug. 22, 1894, when the plaintiff was but little over 15 years old, and the bridegroom 13 years older and a hundred years naughtier. They lived with his brother at Kcim.n two weeks, and then for four weeks more, “stayed” as the complaint states it, near Aix. During part of that time, and while she was sick, the defendant admitted, or rather boasted, that he had sustained improper relations with a sister-in-law, and that he proposed to repeat the offense at his pleasure. She thereupon left him, and has never lived with him since. She was given a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name, May Kelley. As the defendant is as worthless financially as he is morally, no alimony was asked for. In the case of Anna Renicker vs. the L- N. A. & C. Ry., described last week, the jury, contrary probably to the prevailing expectations, brought in a verdict for the defendant. , A new trial will be asked for, and if it is not granted, the case will probably be again appealed.

In the case of The State of Indiana on the relation of Eliza Arndt vs. George Ketchmark, the jury decided that the defendant was the proper person to stand in the relationship of a father to the plaintiff’s child. And they arrived at this decision in spite of some pretty hard swearing against the plaintiff’s character by some of defendant’s witnesses. The defendant lives in Wheatfield, and since this action was brought against him, has married another girl. The plaintiff is now a resident of LaPorte Co.

Court adjourned Friday until Thursday of this week The most important ease still to be tried this term is that of the alleged robbers of the Rensselaer depot and of the night operator. •