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... V-MAN GOES TO PR ISO N O NDENCEIOF ^SONS.s.••V.(They Weigh Hard Question and De-■ cide for Mother; Home arid T - Peace Against; Father. '*Last week in the court notes was the item that James. Noblet had been sentenced to prison on the charge of larceny. Behind the few lines wasl . ^ • ' .‘v •the story of unusual heartaches and the solution of a problem that fortunately many people are not called upon to solve, the problem when the jago and as tr I .finax and * Ti overup 1enthif p(OJpresdenturer. -• HprestiveItthewillcomiron enters the soul and the basicIt corr undlt;mittEve: at tpassions of the race struggle for control, when* one must weigh the question and decide whether one’s own testimony must send one’s own father j ?°~° to prison. ^ sDp not think that all of the tragic I scenes of life happen within the pages Mar of the last best seller in fiction or Cox thousands of miles away in reality, j a?el Do not think that when you wipe your j eyes over some sad J scene at the pic- jcom ture show that more tragic scenes than jat*e were ever fitted on the screen have kopj, , ■ * X ' / m ... ♦not been enacted in real life, somej 3°ur of them right here at home. I fina:What would you do if your word, one way or the other, was to brand your father as a felon? And what would you ido if you feared that if your father was not branded as a felon and accordingly placed behind prison bars that some night when your beloved mother was asleep your father might come to her home and burn the house or fatally injure your mother?Some months ago Mrs. Noblet secured a divorce from James Noblet. Their son, John, a manly young man, then told in court of the family troubles, bow his father was a kind man when/sober but that whisky had be- { come hi^mastetr how the son, John, \ had helped/^%buy forty; acres near Rains to wn tot get his father into the country; C how ^he^ John, earned his money by traveling and he could not be at home all the time to look after his mother.- After/ the divorce was grantedNob-let^worriedithe family at times ; and tii^sohs^rJohm/ahd3/^ester;//^ him out of escapades. Only a short time ago, they secured his release from a charge on the father’s promise to leave the state. But he had deceived them opce more and continued to molest thq family.In December^ Noblet went to the family’s house and took a horse, buggy and harness. The horse was claimed by his son, John, and the bug- j ete~ gy and harness by his son, Chester. f two Noblet was arrested in Indianapolis jwhile trying to dispose of the property. ‘The prosecuting* /witnesses were thetwo sons, and Noblet was found guiltyJ'ccitishorcGandise SO : listi in t yeaiactehou;raniMisHetimlt;Vtorytodcm fmgsthetofhemerly tor 1 mor Danarid sentenced to prison for from one f jpticJOIiNovto fourteen years.So the tragedies that break hearts 1 happen right here in our own com-1 etl*
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Danville Republican
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 05, 1914
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