| Show Kooyman Fighting Hard to Keep II I Children From Juvenile Court Even n with Ith his own oron choicest ity John Kooyman Kooman could COUll not come com close to d describing himself as he ho was waa described In the Juvenile court yesterday yester da day b by neighbors and relatives e He was charged with Ith burn burning In I his daugh- daugh ter In home with Ith swearing s constantly constantly con con- In tn the presence of or hi his hia children and with blackmailing Mrs Eggin a sister slater of Mrs Irs Con Kooyman Kooman whom ho lie ho wanted to marry The Tho Kooyman family which has been beena a thorn In the side of or the Juvenile V court for tor two years was up again yesterday yes yes- for tor Investigation The records of ot the tue court are littered with Kooyman investigations and the main purpose purposes of or tho the Juvenile court COUlt Is to provide proper care for the children John Joint Kooyman Is contesting contesting- the tho right of ot the Juvenile court coutt to take talce charge charKe of or his children and Is contendIng contending contend contend- ing big that he lie Is a L fit tit person to have custo custody custody cus cus- to tody y of them He has hns arrogantly sworn that he ho V Is an nn educated man while his wife VUe grovels gro In gross I Ignorance ignorance nor nor- ance and ho lie raised enough h money to hire an attorney to win his contention conten conten- tion V V Claude ClautIe W. W Freed who lives near tho Kooyman home homo In the vicinity of ot First South and Tenth East streets was examined ex examined ex- ex Saturday morning He said the reputation of the tho Kooymans Koomans was bad and that the children roamed the neighborhood at nil all hours of tho the day or night much to the annoyance of or the nel neighbors He told of the tho children throwing stones and turning the tho hose on an any one who Interfered with wah their troublesome career Mr Freed told of i the constant quarrels between Kooyman Kooyman Kooy Kooy- I man and his wife Attorney Jim Smith wanted to know of oC Freed if It it wasn't a fact that Kooyman Kooyman Kooyman Kooy Kooy- man swore mostly In Dutch The witness witness witness wit wit- ness i repeated created a 0 choice specimen of profanity profanity pro pro- ro- ro fanity used by Kooyman and sal said that it wasn't Invented In Holland Mrs Ir Con Kooyman whose whoso divorced husband Is in jail for Cor threatening to kill her is a law in o of John Kooyman She said aid Id she had lived Jived at atthe atthe atthe the Kooyman I 1 home with Ith Tier her husband and Is now living with her sister Mrs near the Kooyman domicile on East Kast First South street She said th that t Kooyman wan wanted ted to marry mirry her sl sister tf r 4 Mrs Mra r rin Eg that he had hod made proposals of or marriage to hor hoe and had blackmailed black blacK- mailed her when she refused to marry marr him These blackmailing letters have hac been exhibited in the tho Juvenile court ant and thc they are arc too obnoxious to print Mrs Irs Kooyman to told o of her father In law coming to the Eggin home after Mrs Irs E Eggin gln She Sho said Mrs Eggin did Id no not like Kooyman but couldn't l keep him owa away One night Mrs Irs Es-cIn Es drove ro o Kooyman awa away and the next morning sll she found a n. letter under her door from Kooyman Kooyman referred to his children a athe athe as the outfit Mrs Kooyman said that tha the father has no control over them and that the they treat him lUte like a do dog She said the children are arc b bad d and un un- ru ruly I y When Mrs Con Kooyman lived with the Koo Kooyman family she said they would all sit down to a 1 meal together bar bal her from the table and then leave leav tho the door leer to her room open so 80 that ah Dho ahe could smell the victuals and get ret n an appetite They rhey would throw her a apiece apiece piece of bread sho she said and that t 1 In order to to eat It she had to sonic soak It 1 In water She told of Kooyman burning binning he hesi her si sl sisters terl-s terl house and of his lits sUbsequent arrest She Sho said she and her sister had no secrets and that Kooyman never neve met Mrs Irs Eg Eggin ln out at night It a fact tact that you too swear swea sometimes sometimes' asked Attorney Smith Yes and I learned It from m my husband hus hus- band Kooymans Kooyman's children all aU swear The older girls think it is cute cuto an anthey and the teach profanity to the they younger younge ones Kooyman Kooman was Just the same I In Holland and all the people were thankful thankful thankful thank thank- ful when he came to this Countr country H lie He was in Jail over there too Mrs Kooyman said that tho the notor notor- bus John expectorates tobacco juice all over tho the kitchen V that h ho makes the family live in dirtiness an and squalor that he ho and his wife are constantly constantly con con- fighting and that the children childre cannot be controlled by either cither of them It Is la not possible for the Juvenile court to of tho the Kooyman casIn case cage casein In a 3 day ny or In two days so th tho hearIn hear hear- In was continued until Tuesday morning morning morn morn- ing ing- |
