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The Atlanta Journal,

Wednesday, 3rd December 1913,

PAGE 5, COLUMN 1.

Marine Captain Says He Sought Minister s Aid in Domestic Troubles

Captain Ernest E. West, the marine officer who was arrested Monday on a charge of attacking Mrs. John H. Jones, his wife s mother, was fined $50.75 for disorderly conduct Tuesday afternoon by Recorder N. R. Broyles, who also bound him over to the state courts on a charge of assault and battery.

His bond was fixed at $2,500 in the state case.

It is expected that as the result of the action of the recorder the warrant in the court of Justice of the Peace James B. Ridley, charging assault with intent to murder, will be dismissed.

As to the actual visit to the Jones residence at 485 Courtland Street Captain West repeated to the recorder substantially the same story given to the newspaper reporters earlier during the day.

He said that Mrs. Jones was hysterical, that she jumped at him and he caught her, and that in wrenching loose she fell to the floor.

SEEKS MINISTERS AID.

To the recital the marine officer added the details of a visit which he paid to the residence of the Rev. Richard Orme Flinn, just before he went to the Jones home.

He sought the aid of the minister, he asserted, as an intermediary in his matrimonial troubles.

The minister promised his assistance, and after they spent a few minutes in prayer, he left the minister to make a final effort to see his son before he left the city for his station on the Pacific coast, he said.

Captain West introduced a number of witnesses to testify that on the day of the visit he was sober.

The most damaging evidence against the officer was the statement of C. W. Miller, taxicab driver, who asserted that he saw West strike Mrs. Jones and hurl her to the floor.

Neither Mrs. Jones nor Mrs. West appeared in the recorder s court, but the prosecution of the captain was conducted by Attorney James A. Branch.

Attorneys Holbrook and Cortlett defended him.

HEARING NEXT MONDAY.

The next chapter in the domestic troubles of the marine officer will probably be written in the superior court next Monday when the hearing of West s petition to be allowed the custody for a few weeks of his eight-year-old son will be heard by Judge John T. Pendleton.

Several months ago the custody of the child was awarded to its mother by Judge W. D. Ellis, but Captain West is seeking to reopen the case.

Captain West did not pay the city court fine, but through his attorneys certioraried the case to the superior court.

He made bond for the certiorari case, and was transferred Tuesday afternoon to the county jail, where he is lodged in the hospital ward and is under treatment of the jail physician as the result of a nervous breakdown.

Wednesday, 3rd December 1913: Capt. West Bound Over And Fined By Broyles, The Atlanta Journal
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