Show FORGOTTEN IN JAIL ignorant hungarian serves two years before discovered div divorced arced by wife while abroad on visit unfortunate foreigner failed to pay alimony and was waa sentenced for contempt chicago forgotten alike by family frie friends lids and lawyers pavel macca a hungarian spent two years in the cook county jail on a simple charge ot bf contempt of curl court attorney john A mahoney Ma boney who obtained macca maccaa s on it a writ of habeas corp corpus us declared declared the case of 0 macca to be one of the most remarkable in the history of this or any aay other country here la Is a poor uneducated tor eigner besard besa be td has haa been biaas ana de to serve over two years e ra tor for contempt and kept JA A all without blout means or friends to go to his aid four years ago macca and his wife lived on an the west side where they P owned some property they bad in bant lie ile had in his bis name and she had the remaining 55 in her name the account was arranged so that one could draw from the other one ona day while macca was at work be says bays his wife went to the bank and drew out all 11 tho the money macca says his bla wife made good the amount later by signing over her share ot of the property on the west side and he in turn signed it over to a friend who sold it for 1700 there was a mortgage for 1800 and with the remainder of the money macca said he journeyed to his bla homo home in hungary to visit relatives then mrs macca obtained a divorce charging desertion mrs macca represented before judge arthur 11 Cheti chetlan alm then on oa the berich bench that her husband was belito to do and the court ordered that macca maca pay her 1200 1290 allmont alf all monY mony macca said he spent scent all of hesmoney his money while abbad and that he be was waa penniless when he returned to chicago on september 22 1909 he was cited tor for acda contempt iter of of court lie ile said tio no had no money but his bla former wife insisted that he had bad either given it to relatives or deposited it in hungary lie ile was waa sentenced to serve three months in the county jall jail in january 1810 1910 he was again cited and and sentenced to serve another six months on july 12 1910 he be was sent back to the tha jail and has been there over ever since working in the laundry N 1 have a penny macca said eald and there was waa no way in which I 1 auld give my wife 1200 they must have anve thought I 1 had bad hidden it my attorney was josept joseph sabath all I 1 know Is that one day he came to me and said I 1 was waa a single man that my wife had lotten jotten a divorce 1 I have no idea of the whereabouts of my former wife and our two children ile he worked hard every day and there never was a complaint from him sold said mr jacobus |