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Author: mcb2511_1
Surnames: Arner
Classification: biography
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DOPES DAUGHTERS WITH VILE WHISKEY
ACTIONS OF HEARTLESS FATHER REVEALED IN COURT
Treats His Seven Small Children Like So Many Pigs-Neighbors Make the Complaint and Say Lynching is Too Good For Such a Man- Judge Fifield Takes Action.
For ill treating his seven small Children and compelling his eleven year old daughter to drink a quart of whiskey without stopping, James Arner, a worthless farmer residing near Beloit was this morning ordered by Judge C. L. Fifield to surrender his two oldest daughters, Clara, aged-nine years, and Jennie aged eleven years, to the Children's Home Society of Wisconsin with headquarters in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Arner died recently. Neighbors say that Arner has since kept his children doped with whisky. They say he should be lynched. Trouble is feared when the charges are thoroughly investigated.
When the case was called in the municipal court this morning several witnesses testified. James Arner, the father, was not present nor were any of his children.
The testimony given by those who testified brands the father as being nothing short of an inhuman brute. The first witness sworn was Charles D. Merrill, officer of the Children's Home Society of Wisconsin. Officer Merrill testified as to being notified by letter of the inhuman way the father was acting and that he was not capable of governing his children.
Mr. Merrill said that Mrs. Arner was dead, and that the ages of the seven children ranged form eleven years to ten weeks. According to the neighbors, Arner has been having housekeepers whose reputation would not bear close inspection. He would frequently go to town, get badly intoxicated and then come home and ill treat his children so that they would be compelled to run away from home and hide. Frequently they remained away all night, for fear of being killed if they returned.
Officer Wallace Cochrane also testified to James Arner frequently being arrested and convicted on the charge of being drunk. Other witnesses testified that the eleven year old girl nearly died as the result of drinking a quart of whisky and that prompt medical service was all that saved her life.
The court then ordered that Jennie and Clara Arner be placed in the custody of the Children's Home society, who in turn will provide suitable homes for them. Provision is now being made for the removal of the other five children.
Janesville Daily Gazette janesville,wi Monday, Jan. 15, 1890.
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