Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

Perry Hull is Found Guilty. Another Divorce Granted. The trial of C Perry Hull began Monday forenoon and was concluded at a night session, Monday evening. He is the Hanging Grove young man who, in company with his wife, some months ago, bought James McDonald’s team and carriage, with a bogus check, and was afterwards tracked down by Sheriff Reed, at the far side of Michigan. The jury found him guilty of obtaining goods under false pretenses. He is 23 years old, and will get an indeterminate sentence of from one to seven years, in the reformatory at Jeffersonville. Claude Gray, the young fellow who was arrested some time ago on the charge of taking the money of a fellow worker named Jenson was before the couit this morning. Gray and Jenson were working for Rowley Morehouse, near the Kankakee river, and Gray swiped Jenson’s wad and went over to Valpo and bought a courting suit of clothes with some of it. The rest of the money aYid the clothes were recovered. When the case came up, it proved that Jenson, the prosecuting witness, was in Dakota, running a threshing machine. The state asked for a continuance but the court denied it, and the case was dismissed. The divorce case of Christopher Schroeder vs. Dorothea Schroeder was also heard Monday night. The parties lived near Kniman. They were married in Chicago, Mar. 27‘ 1896, and after living together for the ext ended period o 14 days, they separated on April Bth, 1896. It was a second marriage in both cases, and both were quite well along in years. Mr. Schroeder first filed a complaint charging his wife with abandonment. She then filed a cross complaint charging him with cruelty and failure to provide. She charged that he on one occasion pointed a loaded revolver at her, and threatened to shoot her. Also that beyond buying one pound of coffee he never provided her any support. It was brought out in the trial that the wiley Schroeder met her in Chicago, where she was a prosperous boarding house keeper and beguiled her into marrying him by claiming that he owned a big farm and a fine house. His big farm turned out to be 23 acres, and his fine house a hovel. On one occasion she asked the old man for eggs, and he said he would buy her a hen and when that hen laid eggs, and hatched those eggs into chickens and those chickens grew up and began laying, then she could have some eggs. He said nothing about buying a rooster to solace the lonely old hen’s weary months of labor, and she concluded not to wait for those eggs. She was granted the divorca and #7O in alimony. She oonducied herself in a very ladylike manner, at the trial, but the old man was very wordy and boisterous, and could hardly be kept quiet. Neither of them can speak English and gave their testimony through George Strickfaden. as interpreter.