James E Mace
Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, 6 January
1907, page 15
James E Mace, the well known river pilot, who was made the
defendant in a divorce suit some time ago, which was tried Friday in the Circuit
Court, through Attorneys Root and Ahlering, filed a sensational suit yesterday
in the Campbell Circuit Court against Joseph Keuper, a Cincinnati blacksmith,
residing on Isabella street, in Newport, in which he charges the defendant with
alienating his wife's affections.
He says that he married Mary Mace, December 1905, and that through the machinations of the defendant, she abandoned him in October 1906. He further alleges that Keuper began to exercise an influence over his wife in 1904. He says that his home has been ruined and made desolate by the actions of the defendant and he asks for damages in the sun of $10,000.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 23 January 1907, page 5
Judge Berry in the Campbell Circuit Court, granted Mary Mace a divorce from James Mace on the grounds of cruelty and failure to provide. Mace is a river pilot and in his answer and cross petition named a Cincinnati blacksmith as co-respondent. He also has a suit for $25,000 damages pending against James Reicher, for alleged alienation of Mrs. Mace's affections.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 4 April 1907, page 5
The suit of Captain James Mace, well known Ohio River pilot, against Joseph Keuper, to recover $10,000 for the alleged alienation of his wife's affections, is on trial in the Campbell Circuit Court. Mace and Keuper are both residents of Newport.
Mace, in his petition, alleges the defendant broke up his home by his attentions to Mrs. Mace. Privious to the filing of the suit and trial Mrs. Mace brought sit for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and failure to provide and was given a decree. Mace, in his petition filed in the present suit, alleges Keuper had an improper influence over his wife and did unlawfully and maliciously deprive him of her love and affection, whereby his home was made desolate and ruined.
Mace was the first witness called and he told of his wife and Keuper being in each other's company and of her meetings with the defendant at different places while he was at work on the Coney Island steamer, the Island Queen. George Bryce followed Mace on the stand and testified as to seeing Keuper leaving the Mace home at different times at night. He said he saw Mrs. Mace and Keuper eating ice cream on the back porch of the Mace home.
There is a big array of witnesses to be heard at the trial and it is expected the case will not go to jury until tomorrow night. Mrs. Mace, accompanied by her sister and a number of friends, was in court. Keuper is the owner of several pieces of real estate in Newport and is quite well off.