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Show LIED FOR LOVE, GIRUDMITS Hazel Savage Said Infatua-I Infatua-I tion for Donaldson Led to Charges County Attorney David Wilson startled start-led tho city court thl morning when the case of J. E. Donaldson charged with a statutory offense came up for heating bj stating thut ho wished li i e it,., complaint dismissed on the grounds of Insufficlanc of evldcnc. because the compln lnlnpr witness In the case. Hazel Savage, had told him that I she had lied when she swore to I he complaint against Donaldson. City Judge I. R. Roberts denied rhe motion and stated that under the circumstances cir-cumstances ho believed the complaining complain-ing witness should be put on tho stand and her testimom taken under oath. JUDGE UPBR Mls OIKL The BpeeCatOrS were ordered ex- : eluded and follow ing the testimony of Miss Savage City Judge Roberts tald "You ought to go to Jail for charging charg-ing the young man with such an offense of-fense . This court would say more along this lino but undei the clreum-stant clreum-stant es will spare you. The complaint li di-miiSsod-" in his opening statement to the court f'ounty Attorney Wilson after asking for a dismissal of the complaint said that the complaining wltnei?s told hlrn thai she was Infatuated with Donald-1 son and."'nt she had decided to saddle her trouble On him; that the complaint had been signed by her father. H. J. j Savage of lirlgham City; that the! father had later on visited his office and asked tO have the complaint dismissed dis-missed that lie had demanded f.hat I the complaining witness be brought before him to state th' facts. that Questioned she had admitted that the complain was the truth; that he had I refused to dismiss It and that later on (the father had returned and told him that Donaldson had agreed to put up the necesaary money for the girl's j confinement; that ho was a poor man and hat the complaint must be dis-I dis-I missed, which he sjld was th position I the state found itself in the prosecution prosecu-tion MET xt i) wri; n the stand the girl testified that she had met Donaldson at a local dance hall during November, that she had reached the ago of 18 years on! October "2. J 9 J 1 and questioned as to her relations with Donaldson she denied de-nied that ho had been the cause of her trouble. She said that after she had met him and liked him she discovered that he was married and that that made her nnffry whereupon she decided to blame him for her (rouble. According to County Attorney Wil-' Wil-' son there have been two other cases I involving similar facts In which Don-' Don-' aldson has been sued In civil actions I one In Which a judgment of $1,000 was awarded by the city court against him. |