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Court News
Woman Lawyer Wins A Big Case
Colorado Springs, Colo., June 13-The District court has granted Mrs. Julia A. Sherman Boles of California a divorce, with $75,000 alimony, from Richard Johnson Boles, a wealthy mining man of this city, on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Clara Foltz, of San Francisco appeared for the complainant.
(June 14, 1895, Davenport Daily Tribune, Davenport Iowa Submitted by Shauna Williams)
HEARING OF STRATTON WILL CASE
Son Suing for Estate of Fifteen Million-Detective Accused of Double Dealing
Colorado Springs, Colo., March 26-The hearing of the famous Stratton will case, in which I. Harry Stratton, only son and heir of W.S. Stratton, is suing for his father's estate, valued at $15,000,000, which was left by the latter to Colorado Springs for a memorial home for indigent poor, was begun in the district court.
Harry C. Berry, a detective, filed an affidavit in court two days ago, alleging that the attorneys for I. Harry Stratton had tampered with the list of jurymen who are to hear the case, and the court heard testimony as to the truth of the charge, which, if substantiated, will mean that a new panel will be called. Berry was on the stand all morning and was subjected to a fierce examination by Senator Wolcott, who forced him to admit that he was first employed by the representative of the administrators, who are fighting the son, and that while so employed he went to the attorneys for the son and entered their employ, thus obtaining inside information which he handed over to the administrators. Berry is a member of the Elks lodge in this city, and in order to crate an impression that he favored Harry Stratton he introduced the latter into the lodge. This admission under oath created a decided sensation.
[March 26, 1903, The Courier, Connellsville Pennsylvania - Submitted by Shauna Williams]
Sold His Pretty Wife for a Bottle of Beer
Colorado Springs, Co., July 14-Mrs. Martha F. Bradford, of Fountain, Colo, has applied for a divorce from her husband, J.W. Bradford, to whom she was married August 30, 1904. She makes to sensational complaint that he put her up at auction, sold her for a bottle of beer and actually endeavered to turn her over to the purchasers. This occurred in Fountain three weeks after their marriage. Mrs. Bradford is 20 years old and comely.
[July 15, 1905, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield West Virginia - Submitted by S. Williams)
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