Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — Wife Deserter Gets Deserts. [ARTICLE]

Wife Deserter Gets Deserts.

Kokomo, Ind. t Dec. 2. —Thomas Carroll, a furniture merchanL of Troy, 0., has been sentenced to the Howard county jail for six months and a fine of SSOO and costs was assessed against him for wife desertion. The sentence is the heaviest the court could impose. At the trial the testimony showed that Carroll had left

his wife and three small children, a comfortable home and a prosperous business to come to this city for a womah, of Troy, with whom he had become Infatuated. The woman deserted a husband and two chllddren to come here to meet Carroll.