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Show FAMILY FIGHT ID II TRIAL IN THE CITY POLICE COURT C. B. Chapman is to pass the next six months in the city jail or Its environs en-virons as the result of a reckless disregard dis-regard of an order given him hy both the district and municipal court judges, to remain away from the home oi Mrs Thomas Storey until she ha'l secured a divorce from her husband In addition to this punishment, punish-ment, Chapman is suffering a badly battered head and face, as the result of disobeying a similar order from Mr. Storey. Chapman is not the only one who is suffering, however, as Mr. Storey was irbked in the eyo by his 20-year-old bon, H. It Storey, during the altercation al-tercation last night which ended with the trio bemg brousht Into court this morning. Young Storey was sentenced sen-tenced to serve 15 days in jail for hia part in the affair and his father W08 given a 90-day suspended sen tence. Serious trouble has been brewing between Chapman and Mr. Storey, according ac-cording tc the testimony submitted this mcrnlng, since December 12, of last year. On that date, Mr. Storey stated, he ordered Chapman to leave his home. The order was obeyed, but about a week later Chapman returned. re-turned. Trouble occurred between Mr. and Mrs Storey, and last June Mrs. Storey appliid for a divorce. Her application was denied by Judge J. A. Howell, on account of Chapman. Since that time. Storey has not lived at home, but Chapman has been there frequently. A week ago today, the two men were arrested for engaging In a fight, but were given suspended sentence, Chapman being ordered by the judge to keep entirely away from Mrs. Storey's home. He disobeyed the order, and the fight last night resulted Mr. Storey was the first witness this morning and stated that he knew Chapman stayed at his wife's home Tuesday night, and last night he inot him at Harrison avenue and Twenty-second street en route to the house again He stopped him, saying. say-ing. "This has gone far enough." Chapman answered with a swing at him with his fist and the two grappled. grap-pled. Storey had obtained the upper hand, when his own son, who had been making a companion of Chapman, Chap-man, kicked him in the eye. Chapman stated that he was going to the Storey home on the invitation of the son, that Tom Storey met him, and the fight ensued. He stumbled and fell to the ground during the struggle and Storey hit him In the head with a rock. H. U Storey corroborated Chapman's Chap-man's testimony, adding that he told his father to let hia friend up In answer, the father said. "No I won't iirnl you'll get yours next" He then proceeded with the kicking which, he said, was no more than his father had done to him on many occasions Mrs. Storey and R H. Douglass testified as to seeing the fight and i the former also said that Chapman had visited her home, but always I on the inv tatlon of one of her sons I Mr. Douglass testified that Chapman had been to Mrs Storev's house frequently fre-quently since last Juno in summing up the case, the judge declared it tc be the most deplorable one thai had ever been brought to his attention and. in order to settle ! It for at least six months, sentenced I Chapman to serve that length of time in iail for the purpose of outlining a plan for the Instruction of the senior classes class-es in the wards along the line of vocational vo-cational training and more than 70 ward and stake leaders in the vocational voca-tional departments of the different associations as-sociations w ere present The speakers of the evening were Klders B H Roberts Roscoe W. Eardley and Claude B. Richards of the general board, whose special work on the board during the past year or two has been a close study of vocations voca-tions and the need of them. Their discussions occupied nearlv two hours and In them they brought out the great need of instructing the young men to choose a vocation early in life and the manner in which the wide variety of vocations could be brought before them, so they would know for which one they were best fitted oo |
