Show SCARED BY A WOMAN an extraordinary exta ordinary tase came up in one of our police courts on saturday chich had bad it been proven would have established a practical instance of the enforcement of the omans rights doctrine A mr air atisha chapman well known as a dealer in negroes in this thia city charged one mary alary coleman equally well known but il ii a very different diC erent manner anner ta with enticing jiin into her er room and compelling him by threats of 0 summary severance of oe his mortal coil to sign and eldorse ei dorse fr a note at three months for ferons one thousand dollars the evidence in the case sho ed that mr chapman had been living with the accused in matrimonial re rela tailors t ions for several months JAS iben lie he desired to g get t married and in recompense com pease for this desertion desertion vl of her gave cave her a written promise premise to make her a present at ithe the end of three months of a or else I 1 one thousand dollars awa one of marys friends told her this paper was valueless in the eye ce of the law and 1 wrote her out the blank form of a note tor for one thou sard dollars payable three months from date mary procured chapmans Chap mans signature to this and as lie he says sas by force several witnesses however testified to lo his having said that lie he had signed the note cheerfully cheer raily in compliance with liis his former promise ta mary and that she had used io 10 threats or violence toward hue him mary follow lowed ed the example st set her by her late protector ard was ins married fried her husband was in court during the examinations and her lawyer used this fact to touch upon the well known own tender feelings of recorder monroe by picturing tie tl e anguish which a charge of this kind bring upon a newly married couple in their honeymoon the ahe case was dismissed CN N 0 bulletin |