Show IS 11 THE TOILS r 1 JAMES PARKER ARRESTED FOR fornication azz c complaint Compla tnt entered by mrs mm emma woodruff synopsis Syn opria pais of the preliminary hearing yesterday day before davids parker bound over to the district court in the bum of f W M james jarnia parker howarth was ar rested and placed in jail tuesday by sheriff on ft a charge of fornication preferred by mrs emma woodruff he was taken before ans jn ties tice camp who fi fixed xe d his ball bail at and set tho the preliminary hearing bearing for friday at 10 the preliminary hearing was held on OD the day stated before justice davids davide at tho the county court house hauae prosecuting attorney gable conducted the prosecution and attorney W H frye fry appeared for the defendant the complaining witness wit news mrs emma woodruff wa was i first placed on en the stand land and testified in substance that she had bad known the defea dunt parker since he ha was eleven years yeara of age anti and that they had always been on friend ly terms that on the night of the fourth of july 1900 parker had bad intercourse ter courso course with her as an charged in tho the information and at various other times since a year ago wit november witness stated that parker had slept with her a number of tim tiia sometimes as often as aa twice a week on the fourth of july 1900 the date dale charged in tho information the defendant osme to her ber house about 5 ol 01 in the evening and stayed until 3 clock the following morning morn ingi that they went to a cot under the shed near the house about 0 6 and there the act was waa committed afterward going to the house witness was asked thy she had not sworn out a complaint before and in in reply stated that the defendant up till tho the last of september or the first of october had bad repeatedly promised to marry her mud and that she believed him and further farther that stories stones had bad come to her that tho the defendant was widely advertising the fact that ho be had bad had illicit relations her and another widow she had told mrs wilkenson a friend of here her two months ago that she was in in trouble aud and believed that she ehe was wa p pregnant was wan afterward visited by mrs MIB french franch nud and mrs cora johnson and talked with them of the they told her that something om ething should be done about the matter witness stated that those these were her reasons for swearing out the complaint at this timo time when asked if the real ionson was not because she had bad earl earil that the defendant was to be marced to another woman the aunker web not nol the was eugene Wood woodruff who that he was a son eon of mrs mr jooa 0 the complaining wita wit noaa osa aud aad was years office of age was at home between eight and nino nine delock on tho fourth of J uly 1900 had been out tiding with his mothers buggy and the tha defonce Is f on ants horse that evening evou ing and had taken his b is brother and sister with him returned Kota about eight or nine 0 near the shed on oa his hf way to ahn house find aind saw the defendant and his bujher wol her under the shed upon the bed tl 1 l t ann as in a compromising attitude witness stated that ho he was waa within two or three thre 0 feet of them and was positive as to hr his identity of the tho defendant and his hia mother when asked why he be had not made this known bea IB am angered derod that ho he did not feel lilo making it public mrs blar martino tinn wilkinson to citified iti fied that site she bad visited the house of the witness with her husband and they thay talked nith ith her eon coo corning her relations relation with the defendant fen dant and had bad told her that something be done dome in the matter tho the next woodruff testified that diat she phe was waa eleven years old and ans a daughter of mrs amma NN goodruff slit knew the de fondant had bai seen him nt at her moth ats tr a house at different times saw him linn her once last sui niner alia tl prosecution bare and tain defendant was as placed on the lie stand litand to testify in kij own behalf witness made mada it a general denial of the lie charge cited in in the ho complaint i denied r that he bad at the time specified nor at may any other time had bad illicit relations dv with the complainant the defense hero here rested and the case was submitted without arga moat hr his honor annor meed that the do defendant would be held to to the district court bail was fixed at which was secured it has ha been learned from good ant authority hority that the th complaining wit in the case was mistaken ad i to her bor condition AS a medical exam examina fun tion was waa recently made in chioli it ik was found that did nob aist exist xi st which may inny develop somo try vory interesting testimony in the district court |