Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 35
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 21, 1907
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ABANDONED WIFE--SENT TO JAIL.
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Couple Were Reconciliated and De-
fendant Was Released.
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Henry Berry, a negro, was given a sentence of one day in jail Tuesday afternoon
on a charge of abandoning his wife.
Defandant and the woman had been married
only a week when he is alleged to have deserted her. After he was arrested
he agreed to live with her again and was therefore allowed to go with a day in
jail and the payment of the costs, amounting to about $23.00.
This is the second prosecution in this
county under the new law for this offense.
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