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cur- ! _at two placed re men orderly !ti Mrs.’n^or-desale ; • o .; ( ftproiec-CHICAGO JUDGEATTACKS C. POINT!*cr re -r storya 11 o r -Judge Gimmell Launches aernoonhaving night ar hakend twos that)tv she !Broadside at MarriageMill.1termer «!he ro-would[Special To The Times.] *CiirCAGO. March 5.— The plan toput the “marriage mill' at Crow n Pt. : out of business received a boost today j when Judge William M. Gcmmlli of 1 the Court of Domestic Ilelationsjlaunched a broadside against it. TtIwnen \ was a*portion of 11last six monthsrill do Jhat he 'report, covering a total ef 1.500 casesBut i I 1 eard.nt530t1 be- j to get iecpteda pa -. n k o K #'hd liar-!b: uary ! at the nan of!iJKDce.)m a nay re- jof the *riously j'Many girls are mar .ed at 16 and 17 and some at 15 years of asc” the reporter says. “Many boys are rr.a-rmo at IT and IS. Most of such marriages prove failures from the start.“Our law should be so amended as to prevent the marriage or girls before 18 and boys before 21 —and there should be something done to destroy the criminal marriage mills, such *s the one at Crown Point. For a small these acaverg^ra merry chi] ’r« n after asking them to s jru perjured af-Q d a * its a« to their a2c’;T! c business o-f the court will bo rut 50 percent’ or more with the conline ef prolvbition If the inference toho drawn from Judge Grmmill's reportrrrt. In ether words, he aavat ha t wasfamilv trouble?, and that in 7n percent of the oases the men drark and ir» :r anv o' th* m the women also drank.» 1i \1licorrect.: 2 percent of the cases drink“almost the sole cause'' of th'1i]!nthe snow■ mu A ti at*
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 05, 1919
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IN, USA 14 Apr 2019
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