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WWWWWVW REMARKABLE .TRIANGLE CASE CONFRONTS JUDGE FISHER IN MORALS COURT What would you do if you were a judge and a woman refused to stop uvuig with the man for whom she left her husband while her two daughters pleaded with you to let their mother continue to live with the other man in order that they might have "a good home,?" This problem is puzzling Judge Harry Fisher, sitting in morals court. Mrs. Mary Zyhka, 39, is accused of deserting her husband, Jacob Zynka, 49, to live' with "Stanley Preszko, 29, at 1,502 W. Ohio sL Liv ing with Mrs. Zynka are her four children, three of them by her hus band, Jessie, 17; Mary, 1'6, and Steve, 12, and a little girl, Paulina, whose father isPreszko, the woman told Judge Fisher. Zynka wants his wife to go back with him. She won't go back. "I don't see what wrong there is in Mr. Preszko living with my moth er," Mary, 16, told Judge Fisher in broken English. Mary is an espe cially good-looking girl. "He treats her fine and -my father didn't He gives us a good home and our father didn't" "Will you return to your husband?" Judge Fisher asked Mrs. Zynka. "No," she answered. "Will you leave this man?" "No, I ,can't keep my family with out help. I want my girls to be good girls. For that I must haye help." "Then I can do nothing but send you and the man to the House of Correction for a year each," said the jUdge. "If you send them, send us, too," suddenly stormed forth the quiet Jes sie. ""We can't live on our wages of $6 to $8 a week in a tailor shop, keep the family and keep on being good girls. If ,you send our mother there you ought to send us too." "Don't you think it's wrong for your mother to be living with anoth er man.?" asked Judge Jlsher. ''No," flashed back Jessie. "You don't understand," sighed the judge. "Well, we want our home, and why should your law care who my mother lives with?" said Ma'ry. Judge Fisher continued the case till next week. RUSSO-RUMANIANS ARE DRIVEN A BACK ON DOBRUDJA FRONT Berlin, via Wireless to Sayville. Russo-Rumanian titiops, attacking with about 20 battalions, three' bat teries and nine cavalry squarons in the Dobrudja were routed by Bulga rian counter attack and pursued by Bulgarian cavalry. Petrograd. Russian torpedo boat sank three Turkish ships and several Bailing vessels loaded with coal at port of Eregli, 128 miles east of Constantinople. London. British drove forward on highway leading to Bapaume last night East of Courcelette strongly fortified system of German trenches were captured on half-mile front -Berlin, via Wireless to Sayville. Bulgarian -troops captured villages of Calmish and Svstipuka from allies in Macedonia and have alsot conquered enemy trenches on allied right wing. London. For third time within a fortnight British aviators made raid on German aeradrome at St Denis- Westrem, Belgium. Considerable damage was done and there were-, heavy German casualties. An unconfirmed wireless dispatch from Rojne saidGerman-Bulgarian forces are retreating from Rumania and Rumanian fortress of Silistra, occupied two weeks ago by Mack ensen, has been abandoned. Berlin. By encircling attack, Von . Mackensen has driven back Rus-" W sians andTtumanians in Dobrudja. London. Large bodies of Turkish troops moving northward through Bulgaria to join Germans and Bur gars now engaged in heavy fighting with Russians and Rumanians in Dobrudja.