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Show HUSBANDS GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE Wife-Deserters Paroled by Chicago Court Judge, Give Good Accounts of Themselves. CHICAGO, Feb. 2. The new munici pal court became an instrument of mer cy and a repairer of family relations, rather than merely an avenue of punishment pun-ishment last night, when Judge rieland presided at one of the strangest judicial sessions ever held in Chicago. The scene was the Maxwell street court. The circumstance was the ap pearance of fifty-on husbands and wives mostly husbands who, one or two weeks ago, had deserted or neglect ed their families and under bonds had awaited the Judge's decision. They had been ordered to report last night to the Judge as to their conduct pre paratory to being paroled to West Side business men if that action seemed wise. Of the fiftv one cases only one was deemed bad enough to warrant sending the offender to the Bridewell. That was a case of loafing, the offender being an eighteen vear-old boy. In all th other cases the Judg ordered a parole and either suspended fines or simplv ordered the penitent to return and report to him in two weeks. "We are getting on finely.-' was the frequent testimony of the husbands and wives in cases where the Judge had given the recreant one a nw chance. |