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RANK JAMIIVIFE GIVEN DECREE, CIOL-DREN AND FARM HOME BY JTJDGGE JLEEUSBAND Flfs III COURTuse Hard Contested; Trial Fills Two Days and the Court Room;Testimony.Mrs. Mabel A. Jayne was granted divorce from Frank E. Jayne, cus-xly of their eix minor children and Dssession of her 56-acre farm home ortheast of Spencer by Judge Lee riday at the end of a hard-fought rial which packed the courtroom r two days-With Interested listen-' fs. tThe judge announced his dedlslon bout eleven o'clock Friday night. ;7hen Frank Jayne heard it he ilnted and fell into his mother’s rms, and It took some time to ■ ring him to.Mrs. Jayne charged her husband dth repeated cruelty to her and the hildren and with insulting her and lying vile things to her in the ehil-; ren’s hearing.The children sided with Mrs. ayne, testifying against their fath- ’ r. He was accused of knocking his rife down, of choking his adopted nd oldest son Ted till he was black i the,face and of kicking violently is 12-year old son Bertrand.Jayne attempted to show that his dfe had been over-friendly withther men. He admitted that he had truck her, hut said she hit him first, t was also brought out that In a Iseussion about a boarder who was jst leaving them, Jayne called his dfe a name which cannot be printed ere.Mrs. Jayne wept frequently as she at in the courtroom through the ng trial. Dorothy, nine years old, ried on her mother’s shoulder after he had testified. The children' lustered round their mother and jnored Jayne three feet away across be counsel table.Mrs. Jayne testified that Frank truck her in the mouth when she iterfered with his choking Ted;bat another time be knocked Tier own; that he made a particularly. trocious remark about “a wife like or before the children; that he ailed her vile names and said he ad ho use for her; that he said of be children Line ’em up and see if bey don’t look like Rode. She aid that in the first years of their larrled life she drove the .mower nd binder and cleaned the barn be-’ ause Frank's mother thought he ad a weak heart and couldn’t do eavy work.” She said she took i washing last spring.They were married in 1897 and ved on hia parents' farm for three ears. Jayne said his wife objected 3 living on the same place with bla lother and about 1900 they moved nto the farm where they have since ved. Some thrbe years later, he sstified, Mrs. 'Jayne left home in he ,middle of the night and got as ar as Ruthven before he persuaded er to return home.Mrs. Jayne was brought before the nsanity hoard at Spencer on infor-natlon filed by her- mother-in-law, iut was found sane. Mrs. Jayne enior said C. S. Weaver, a member f the board, told her Mrs. Frank ayne had an uncontrollable temper.” Mr. Weaver testified he did lot remember saying that.Jayne testified his wife went, to datives at Minneapolis and Mitch--I and they told him she had run off vlth a cousin from West Bend. H© aid her Minneapolis relative sent dm a letter alleged to have been ound in his wife’s trunk, signed 'Will” and saying that certain cold-less would be made up when they net. Mrs. Jayne in her. testimony lenied getting such a letter or run-iing away with the man. Jayne laid he went to Mitchell and got hie. vife to come, home.In the early years they had no ihildren and adopted a boy. The ldest of their own children, Bert-'and* is twelve.After her return from Mitchell,* fayne said, he had no trouble with Tis wife until three years ago. One lay Ted didn’t mind. .I shook ilm. She struck me on the hand vith a stick. Of course I hit her—In :he cheek—-it swelled up some.He said those were their first alows.Jayne said Pete Rode came into their home about fifteen years ago. ivorked for Jayne two years, then Pound other employment, but continued to board at the Jayne home, but bought things for the table and Jayne testified Rode paid no hoard made presents to the children add Mrs. Jayne. Mrs. Jayne denied that(Continued on Page Seven)HONOR, ROLL ATGILLETT GROVE CON-.SOLTI DATED SCHOOLSt -...i.—..The following is the honor roll for the Gillett Grove Consolidated schools for the month1; of December. 1920;Class A.—Lola Gloyzel, Clare Parson, Isabel Parson.CJass B,—Jennie Allen, Irene Hargrave, Lila Allen, Albert Hoqk-ott, Nora Allen, Helen Jackson, Alice Banning, Neliida Jackson, Li2zie Benning, Verle Johns, Bbft-sie Blount, Francis LaGfcange Raymond ' Daugherty, Marjorie Mills, Glen Eriopon, Anabel Morre, Harley Erlcson, Maggie Morris, Mabel Haw-rick, Erma Nissen, Mlldrea Hamrick, Harold North, Donald Hargrave, Ethel Parson, Elizabeth Hargrave, Robert Parson.
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Spencer Reporter
Spencer, Iowa, US
Wed, Jan 12, 1921
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