Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1908 — Fined Erastus Peacock $100. [ARTICLE]

Fined Erastus Peacock $100.

Erastus Peacock, the mail cle:k, was fined |IOO in the Newton county court oik the charge of wife desertion Wednesday, after a trial that lasted two days and during which the prosecuting attorney most scathingly ridiculed Peacock. The fine carrl s with it the costs, amounting to probably |l5O or |2OO. Should Peacock continue to refu e to support his wife it Is certain that another civil suit wllll be start.d against him. Newton couhty, as Jasper, proved by Its Jury verdict, that- a man that wilfully deserts his wife and refuses to support her. Is contemptible and can find no sympathizers. Save for the Peacock would have lost his job, he would have been given a penitentiary sentence.