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Show WANTED ! A DADDY. PITIFUL STRUCCLE OF A YOUNG WOMAN TO PATERNIZE HER BABE. Judge Zane's Court Chamber the Scene of Another Sensational Urania Today The Criminal Calendar Gets the Kight of Wry The Kecoi d. ! j The court, opposing; counsel and the few trhom fate and the subpauia had favored, were the only ones permitted to enjoy e;- j sicken, as the racy particulars of a se.vial drama -were unfolded iu Judge Zane'a department de-partment of the district court during the mornin? hours. The day itself was dismal. The we ither was symholieal of a young Magdalene's blasted hopes, and a frail hahe's blasted life. The title under which the drama was enacted was the United States against l'avid Tim -mous. charged with firnieation. The avenging aveng-ing young woman and prosecutrix who sup. ported an infant of eleven months, its blue eyes staring fixedly into the fare of a brokenhearted broken-hearted mother, from beneath its !l.i-:t-n ringlets, was May Klizabeth Rogers. May was not seeking to hide h--r sin ; she souglit to avenge it. T! hind his counsel, consisting of Messrs. Kaigufc Anderson, eat the defendant David, between his parents, honest appcar- I iiig oid folk w hose ruddy checks hetokene.l that they hud fed on the fat oC the land or I on the other hand hiushed for the '-thorn " between t hern. The dnima opined with the prospeutri and the iiabe o.u the stand. Hi r story is quickly told, ."she was in the employ of Mr. and Mrs. Tiiunious "hen David, as she i alleges, nerouipiisbed her dow nfaii. Taking the legend as sh0 recited it, it began on Sunday afternoon when the home at Mill j Creek was d-serted by all save her coniid-ii'.self. coniid-ii'.self. Anhour later she had stumbled and fallen. i Did the defendant have intercourse with you?" asked Assistant District Attorney j Stephens, as he proceeded to drive the last, nail iu tin; defendant's ccfiin. "No. sir;" said the witness bluntly, '-he did not." Laughter. "You don't understand me; is ha the i father of your child?" j The simplification of the question let in the desired light. "Yes sir, lie is;" answered the mother, who was thereupon turned over to the merciless mer-ciless hand of the prosecution. "You testified," began Colonel Kaign, "that it occurred between the hours of i.di) and ti o'clock in the afternoon?-' "Yes sir, it did." lYiieiv were the defendant's parei.ts?" '( tone drivitig." "When did Dave appear?" "iie drove up in his horse and buggy and asked for hi,-: mot'-a r and father." "And you told him they were out?" "Yes. s:r."' ''Wiit;'. tin-a?" "He came in and I wen! into a bed chamber chamb-er it was the spare camber Used for gi i e s ' s . ' ' 'A;a! w hat d'd David do in.: n '-" "He f.-'..ow.-d nu- in tin- bed room." "tl nilt V of an', vio" jlicc ;' ' No Sir." Thi audience was unable tr longer brook its risi! "es. A gust of laughter swept through the eocrt room. Bailiff Snrague undertook to 'neat it back with his gave! but it wouldn't be repulsed. Judge Zane egme to tlie rescue. "I apprehend," said the court with emphasis em-phasis if uot severity "that no gentieraan will want to list-n to a rase in which there is born to !" i ore or less indecency. The, bi..)iif will clear t.ie court room.'' The chamber was accordingly emptied and the eate went on whirr, .t iuteruption. "How long did Dave remain," renamed council for the defcnsV. "' Bou i. an hour." ''Did you upbraid him for having taien advautage of a caitidtng girl who was in tne emtdoy f honest parents." "No sir; I didn't say anything to him." "Ask him to marry you?" "No sir," lisped the young mother as she opened her eyes upon a new line of tactics that might have been pursued by her. "Did you not tell Mrs. Timmons that a dark eomplexioned man had assaulted you on the railroad track and got the best of you?" "No sir," exclaimed the young woman. "Mrs. Timmons told me to tell that story to shield her sou; what I said was that some one in the family was the father of it." This line of testimony went on ad nansewn the situations now and then taking a very dramatie turn while none of those "present betrayed a disposition to vacate their chairs. The young woman having concluded her bland recital and finished the 6tory of her tribuls'.ious the testimony for the prosecution prosecu-tion ended. At this juncture counsel for the defense asked for a dismissal on the grounds of the absence of corroborative evidence and the drama ended with a flash. The motion mo-tion w as sustained. May Klizabith Rogers is still searching for a daddy. The Kegular Call. The criminal calendar which has been fighting for it for several da vs finally succeeded suc-ceeded iu getting the right of "w ay in judge Zane's court this morning, anil settings will alternate with the civil docket until December U. The next case of any senaational interest was that of the United States against George Katchell who is indicted in-dicted on a charge of fornication, the prosecuting prose-cuting witnesseseonsisting of Nettie Thomas and a babe of some twelve 'months. . Following this are the cases against Dan Sinclair, charged with burglary; Thomas McKeeverand Kilie Smith, held for burglary; burg-lary; John Doe Fisher, btirgiary. These will probably be reached tomorrow. On Monday the call shows the eases of the Peopie against Harvey Hall, Arthur Smith, James Cumniings. Fred and Thomas Wil- hams, Ben Driggs, jr., Alex Johnson and Charles Ford, witnesses in which case are excused till that time. . m m . |