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Show PROF. THOMAS HAS CASE CONTINUED Wife and Son Caring for Young Woman Whom Husband Hus-band and Father Ruined. ! CHICAGO, April 15. The ease of Dr. William Thomas, charged wi!h disorderly conduct was continued to-' to-' day in the nioralp court to next Friday, Mrs. R. M Granger, wife of an army I officer in France, wjih whom the edu-l edu-l cator is alleged to bae registered at a I hotel as man and wife last Thursday, I was not in court. It was said she was I still at the professor's home where ! Mrs Thomas, assisted by a son. who is la hospital interne, was trying to soothe i her shaken nerves. The continuance was taken at tbe Instance of Peter Sissraan. attorney for Dr. Thomas, who said be had no .time to prepare his ea3C. Crowd Ig Disappointed A large crowd, attr icted by the not-joriety not-joriety of the case, was disappointed at j the brevity of the proceedings. There I were a few whispered words exchang-i exchang-i ed by Slssman, Judge Graham and Prosecutor Starr and the case for the I day was over. A woman, who had ob-I ob-I tained a seat near the bench continued I work on a soldier's sock, maintained her seat until she saw the principals leaving the court room, v.hen he has-j has-j tily gathered her materials and left 1 1 JU. "Who knows," said the prosecutor, ' but perhaps Mrs. Granger's husband may get that sock some day." Dr. Thomas Among the Immorals. Dr. Thomas escaped observation by tbe curious until his. lawyer called blm forward. He leaned against a door, looking weary and worn until the al -torney summoned him in the background back-ground were perhaps a hundred defendants de-fendants and witnesses In a heavy docket consisting wholly of cases of Immorality. They are the specialty Ol the morals court Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, president of the University of Chicago where li-Thomas li-Thomas holds the chair of sociology, was expected to return from Washington Washing-ton today Faculty members met Saturday Sat-urday to prepare a formal statement of the case for him. it is supposed to be a resume of facts admitted to federal fed-eral officials the sailing of Lieutenant Lieuten-ant R M Granger, signal corp-. lor France; the farewell ol his wife and the immediate solace she found in the company of Dr. Thomas, ihni long talks in the sequestered shadows of the university; the denouement at the hotel Thursday night when they were taken into custody and the charge which brought the professor into the disillusioning portals of the morals court. Mrs, Thomas' interest in young Mrs. Grander he fe 21 whllo the professor s 55 and looks jt showed no sins of abatement today Years ago she at -cepted her husband's advanced theor les of relations between men and I -women the "wider view" as manyi Intellectuals term it, and she (a now mothering both the girl and her husband. hus-band. The girl, she has called 1 a silly little thing" and her husband a "silly boy." "So ctupftl of huDj," she said Professor Thomas' course 0 spying ;md summer lectures al the university were suddenly cancelled today. This, it was said, was preliminary to his retire re-tire meni from the faculty. |