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L ItA IRyiNG VISITSherman Cox Drags WifejIand Children Around !City Court.(With a baby getting i^s breakfast very much after the fashion of babies in all families where mothers are wont to sacrifice their comfort a bit rather than submit their youngsters to the dangers of a nursing: bottle, a couple of little girls hanging- to her skirts and a boy sitting on the prisoners’ bench beside his father, Mrs, Sherman Cox told a pitiful siory in the city court Thursday and the father of the little family was saved from a jail term only by the fact that his support is badly needed.Judge Mungovan gave him a talking to and a warning. He told him that a man who will deliberately drink up money that ought to put food in his children’s mouths is several degrees worse than a brute and he also told him the next time he comes to Fort Wayne and gets on a tear he will do some time down in the county jail.The wufe told the old threadbare story—he’s all right when he’s sober. It was shown, however, that he Inflicts more privation and hardship on his family with one spree than he can*atone for by months of sobriety. Monday he came down from Huntertown to look for a house to move his family into and he got home with a big jag. His wife had $5 left and was afraid to trust him to come alone, so she came with him Tuesday. He dragged that woman and the poor youngsters about town all day and that night she remained with a friend.He went to sleep in the Interurb'in station yesterday and when Patrolman Paul got him and wanted him to go home he told the officer It was none of his d— business and found out that he was mistaken. He promised to do better. These fellows alwavs do.
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Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 16, 1910
Page 15
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