12 LOVE'S DREAM Turned Into a Nightmare by Cruelty A MANUFACTURED AFFIDAVIT WILSON'S TRAMP TOUR PLANS ALL BLOCKED «Lou" Turner Arraigned—Chapman's Well a Disappointment —Train- jumping Artist —Court Notes The case of Mary Majors vs. Harry Majors was tried in Judge Allen's court yesterday. Young Majors and hissweet heart, Mary Gray, In 1594, when they were 17 and 14 years old, respectively, went to their parents with a fairy story of having been married at sea off Santa Monica. The Majors and Gray families held a hurried consultation and decided to make the best of matters. Rev. A. C. Smlther of the First Christian church, was called in, after the securing of v marriage license, and. the two young persons were made one. According to the story of the child-wife, Majors had never fullysupported her, ar.d' within a few weeks after the marriage, began to treat her cruelly and heap unusual in sults upon her. He began by insisting that there should be no children as the fruit of the marriage. In spite of this, however, the young wife was compelled to inform him that she would before long become a mother. The defendant was 1 so angered by this that he kicked the plaintiff in the back, saying, at the same time, "I guess that will settle the matter." After the birth of the first child, Ma jors continued his violence to his wife, and even went so far as to compel her by intimidation, to take some private mecilcines. The medicine not having the desired effect, Majors, attempted, with out success, to compel her to visit and Submit to treatment by a notorious male practitioner, on Spring street at thai time. The second child was born a few months later. As, after the birth of this child, mat ters had got to such a pass that thewife was in constant fear of violence on her husband's part, a suit for divorce was Instituted by Attorney Calvert Wilson of Los Angeles. Tanner & Taft of Santa Monica answered as attorneys for Ma jors, but did not deny the charges of cruelty. They sought only to avoid pay ing costs and. attorneys' fees in the suit. On the suggestionof Mr. Tanner that his client was not of age, the attorney was appointed his guarcjian ad litem. It developed from the testimony of the wife's mother yesterday that the affidavit upon which the license for Ma jors and his sweetheart were married •tated their ages to be IS and 15 years, respectively, but that they were really Just under those ages, which made it impossible for them legally to enter into marriage. The mother said the affldavii was made at the suggestion of "Lawyer Jordan," who said no one would, ever question its correctness. As soon as the license was secured, the mothers of the young persons huntedtup Rev. Smither, who performed the ceremony without question. The two children born to Mrs. Majors were in court, spectators of the grief of their mother at the cruelty of their father. Mrs. Majors is a childishly handsome young woman, and the chil dren quite pretty and apparently well cared for. Judge Allen listened, with occasloml evidences of annoyance, to the schemeof circumlocution by which the marriage of the children was brought about, ar.d concluded, the hearing with some com ments 1 on the matter. "If the court had the power," said Judge Allen, "it would make an order against this man who undertook to mar ry children of that age, and these wom en who seem to have brought it about by some sort of female conspiracy. I don't know what to say about this thing. It Is one of these outrages that seem to be perpetrated under the guise of our marriage laws, where a girl under »he age of consent, and a boy under the ag3 of consent, who are lying around in a lascivious manner together, and. the parents conclude to legalize that by hav ing them go through the forms of a mar riage ceremony. To do that perjury Is committed and a certificate is issued, and then they find some minister with a very limited idea of the proprieties of life who has united in the sacred bonds of matrimony these two children under circumstances. What is the re sult? Here are two innocent, inoffens ive children brought Into existence by virtue of thisscandalousprocedureupon the part of the parents and that preach er. And then thiseourt isasked. to make some order tending to correct the evil that has been done. "I guess probably the better solution of the matter is simply this: This mar riage ought never to have taken place. It was an outrage and it is an outrage that it exists, ar.d I guess no violence will be 6jne to the public—for it is the public, after all, that is largely concerned in these matters—to grant a decree to these children. The question about the sup port of these little children, the product of this marriage, is a difficult thing." The court then ordered that the de fendant, who is now in Kern county and did not appear at the trial, should pay his wife $10 on the Ist of each month as alimony. She was granted the custody of the two children", till further order of the court, but was not allowed to resume her maiden name. WILSON IS A GOOD THING Constables So Hot After Him He Can't Get Out o* the County R. J. Wilson is locked up in the county Jail, where he will serve a ten-day term for vagrancy. Wilson would like to have some one tell him where there is an underground passage in Los Al geles county that will help him in getting into some adjoining county and keep the suburban constables off his trail, for a short while at least. He has been ar rested In every little town in this* county to which a wagon road runs from Los Angeles. Every time he is released from the county jail some constable pops up along the side of the road which he takes out of the city, for the sake of the $2 fee In it, and Wilson Is back In thf i county jail almost before the, en try of his discharge is dry. If there is any one who would be willing to lend Wilson a suit of clothes and an electric diamond to deceive the hungry constables with , he will be pleased- to meet them any time ■ In the next ten days. As the matter stands now it would pay the county to buy Wilson a ticket to same other county. 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