Show REFUSED TO PROSECUTE MRS CHAFHAX WOULD SOT TESTIFY TES-TIFY AGAIXST HER HUSBAND Police JuHticc Smith Determined to Stop This Kind of Business By Taxing Costs Against the Com lilaintiut Other Cases Yesterday was a very light one in the police court The principal incident inci-dent was in connection with the case of James Chapman who was arrested last week for wife beating The parties to the case are Very prominent and it has attracted much interest It will be remembered that when Mrs Chapman Chap-man made the complaint she exhib ited bruises on her hands and face and said she was afraid of her life Afterwards when the case came up she refused to appear and prosecute friends In the meantime having intervened inter-vened and labored to patch up the differences Judge Smith however lad seen too many cases of this kind I lately and he ordered that the wife be subpoenaed As a consequence the couple appeared yesterday afternoon When Mrs Chapman was put on the stand she refused to testify against her husband I Have your differences been made up yet asked the court Not quite was the answer I Are you living together Well we are living in the same I house You refuse to prosecute this case against your husband 1 The witness looked around for a I few moments and answered that she didThere have been a great many cases lately continued the court where complaints have been sworn to and the complaining witness has afterwards after-wards refused to appear The court has determined to put a stop to this bv taxing the costs against the complainant com-plainant Mr James what are the costs in this case They are now 375 was the answer an-swer swThe court considered a moment and turned to the witness r will let you off this time he said But if this thing ever happens again it will go doubly hard with you The husband and wife walked away together to-gether Ed May Lot Singthe and Ed Williams i Will-iams arrested for disturbing the I peace forfeited 10 each There were i a number of drunks and violators of the bike ordinances who were fined in various sums Bill Nixon and Tom Carter being assessed 20 each The cases of rape against Wilson were sent to Commissioner Pratts court As Captain Bywater Is still unable to appear the case against Charles Splain was continued Splain has gone to Idaho and bonds of 15 will be put up for him The case against A P Sorenson for obstructing the sidewalk was continued contin-ued until today |