4- THE'HEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4. 19 Chief Justice in Speech to Women Outlines Rights V Andrew Morrissry of Nelra . La Court Addresses Home Economies Association t on Legal Question. Lincoln. Tan. 3. There is no lif. ference iu the property rights of din gle women and the property rights of inert while the Nebraska statutes pro vide that the property which any woman may pwn prior to her mar riage shall remain her own notwith standing ihe marriage, Andrew VY. .viornsscy, rniei juniic 01 tne ic hraska supreme court, today declared in an address before the annual meet ing of the Nebraska Home Eco nomic! association, pcaking on the "Property Rights of Women." "It there is un jmprcsMon that the husband, in his property right, gets more protection under the law than does the wife, I believe a care ful consideration uf the statutes and decisions having to do with the property right,", of married people will lead to tha opposite-conclusion," Jus tice Morrissey said'. "The old fiction, that the wife js subject toVthe hus band no longer prevails. ! assume you wilalmit that ' husbands are now subject to .their views, However, the law remains, notwithstanding the adoption f the 19th amendment. Woman Sovereign." The Nebraska law leaves every un married woman free to engage in business on her own account, to sell and convey, her propcrty, to contract debts, to'' execute a will and 'to do anything in relation to her property that may be done by a man, Mr. Mor rissey stated,:- and her right to in herit property also .is the same in all particulars as that of her brother. If a single woman owns property and or stock at the time she marries, she continues to be the owner and is free to proceed with the business of operation or lale, but if she desires' to sell, or mortgage, the husband must join in the conveyance if the marriage relation exists and the hus band is a resident of the .state,. Jus tice forrissey added. "I can almost hear some of vou suggest that it is unfair, but in this respect" the raw is no different when applied to the 'husband, as the wife must join in conveyance, before the husband can dispose of or mortgage his property, so that in this resDect the wife and the' husband "stand on an equality before the law," the chief justice stateTj. ' The holder of the title to real es tate is 'not by law prevented from conveying away the interest held by the owner absolutely, Justice Mor rissey explained, but is prevented only from conveying that interest in the 'real estate which the law gives to the other spouse. Justice; Morrissey then reviewed that class of cases that most fre quently arise the case of a young man and; woman who marry with nothing for capital except their .-own ambition 'and mutual trust to1 suc-recd-finl!y resulting through both Iheir.' efforts in realizing comfort-, able worldly gains, the title to which is jn the husband's name. ''While; these parties live happily together and enjoy the possession and use of the property, it does not usually matter much where the title rests, but unfortunately, as"!t' some times happens.', divorce the question of a division ofprop erty is presented," the chief justice continued. "This is a case where no hard, inflexible rule may always be ppplied. s Years ago there appeared to be a general belief that under such circumstances the wife should take but one-third. Such a rule was never established by statute but be- cause of the old K law, which limited the inheritance - of the wife to a third of the estate of the deceased husband, the ali mony oij a wife frequently was fixed at this -Jum. I am glad to say. that in Nebraska today the wife is not limited, p a one-third interest in the property, accumulated by their joint efforts". ' Justice Morrissey then quoted, a supreme court decision granting a wife one-half of the joint accumu lations and in another where the court allowed itself to take into ac count all of the property owned by the parties at the time of entering the decree, whether accumulated by their joint efforts or acquired by inheritance, and to make such . award as proper under all the cir cumstances disclosed by the record. Jn the, latter the court held that the wife Was equal to share in an in heritance from the husband's fa which was contested because the husband held the , inheritance vyas not a sum aided in accutnula . t'on by 4he wife. The court divided all the; property. ;"pivorces too Many." ''Unfortunately, we arc having too many divorces and sound public pol icy requires that they-be discouraged rather .than encouraged, and I am not encouraging them," Justice Mor rissey declared. "They generally re suit in the luin of the home and th-i , dissipation- of the family fortune. I am merely quoting the general rule followed where decrees are entered." A new statute passed by the legis lature of 1907 dispersed a notion that the .wife is entitled, upon., the death of, her husband, to only the use for life of a one-thir"d interest in her hus band's estate, Mr.-, Morrissey stated. The statute abolished dower, and in- k ' stead of providing that the widow shall have the income from one-third of the property during her lifetime, it gives to her a definite portion . which becomes hers absolutely an-1 which she is free to dispose of by w ill or: otherwise. "It must be borne in mind in this connection, however that the pro visions of this statute do not prevent the husband from making a will and giving. the widow more than the amounts specified," Justice Morrissey said. , TThe provisions neither pre vent men and women contemplating marriage from executing contracts in due form adjusting their property rights, but the contracts must be iu writing " J Justice Morrissey concluded by asking that his address be not ac cepted as a complete textbook on ihe liw of property or make the mistake of reljwg upon his general outline in case -question- affecting his hcar trt' inferos arise.-1 Stockman of Iowa Among Those Robbed by Escaped Bandits Lewit, Is, Jan. 3. (Special.) Through the drugging of the chief of police of Oklahoma City, three men identified ai being the robber! who held up and relieved Jlarry Hopley, prominent Cats county stockmen, of Hi diamond ring valued at $-',000 hive escaped. Hopley and two friends were held up and robbed at the home of one of the latter. This was several months ago while the Cast county man was at Ihe Okla homa state fair at a cattle judge. The holdup men thade their escape, but later were arrested for a mail robbery in Arizona. Now they are again at liberty. They were in the custody of the Oklahoma City police chief, who was given a drugged cigaret by a stranger, supposedly a pal of the robbers. When the of ficer revived his prisoners had fled. Parole Sought by 10 Doudas Convicts , .1.1, , ; . ' ' Many Applications "Also Filed From Other Parts of h ' , State. Lincoln, Jan. . 3. (Special.) Ten Douglas county convicts in the penitentiary will ask pardons-at the next meeting of the board of par dons and paroles. They are Edward J. Ryan, serv ing one to 10 years for receiving a stolen automobile; James blnamek, one to seven, larceny; Carson Cov ington, one to 10, breaking and entering; Orville Malone, one to 10, receiving stolen automobile; James Smith, one to seven, larceny; James Smith, one to 20, forgery; Leon Taylor, one to seven, larceny, as bailee; Frank Clayton, one to seven larceny; Kay Matthews, one to .10, receiving, stolen property; Jack Reed, one to 10, breaking and entering. . .. Clark Austin, negrq serving 10 years for murder, will ask commuta tion. He ha been in since . April 17, Tarole applicants outside Qmaha arc: William H. Stoll, Platte, auto stealing; Burleigh Patterson, Dawes, auto stealing! William Thomason, Richardson, auto steal ing; John Welch, Lancaster, grand larceny; Jerry Wheeler, Harlan, bur glary; Fred G. Story, Kimball, grand larceny; - Louis Ironshell, Dawes, forgery; Frank Martin, Lancaster, grand larceny; Bert Nisely, Furnas, grand larceny; Frank Geiner, Lan caster, forgery; Glen Brummett, Gar den, horse stealing; Joseph L. Bey- ett, Custer, hog stealing; George Bays, Buffalo, grand larceny; Joseph Svanda, Buffalo,' grand larceny; C. E. Young, Knox, .. forgery; Jacob Ondrauch, Saunders,, auto stealing; Jerry Kunccl, Saunders, auto steal ing; Henry Dawson, York, assault to rob'; John Dempsey, Cherry, for gery; Jacob trickle, Scottsblutf, for gery; Claude j. nan, js.eitn, lorgery; .Ralph Grnith. Buffalo, burglary. t . Arthunj.Orr of Polk and Jack L. Wilkerson of 'Morrill, serving three and three and one-half years, re spectivcly, on statutory charges want their sentences commuted. Fire in FufTnan Building1" .. "at York Causes $5,000 Loss Yqrk, Neb.f Jan. 3. (Special Tele gram.) Fire was discovered at 4 this morning in the building owned hv W. R. 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They Hopped and searched the neighborhood in the dark and later arrested Walter Savicky, 5008 South Thirty-third street, and Matthew Macaithis. The latter had a long dirk. Pilgrim's injuries were dressed by police surgeons. There were several cases of petty violence in the strike zone this morn ing and a large grist of cases up in police court. , .'. - . Charles Ming, a Swift employe, was struck 'on the head by a brick at Twenty-sixth and N streets as he was walking to work at 8 yesterday morning. 1 Sam Police, 3107 R street, was ar- resUd on a charge ot assaulting jonn Jurita, S433 South Thirty-third street, at 1 wenty-seventu aim w streets. The packers reported business nearly normal. In the last five work ing days -they -killed - 6,725 cattle, 20,749 hogs and 15,625 sheep, the "Bier Five" reported. In the same period 418 cars of finished products were shipped out. Flood Recedes; Damage Slight Crest of High Water in Ari zona Passes Phoenix Rail ways Still Suspended. Phoenix-. Ariz.. Tan. 3. The crest of the Cave creek flood, which en tered the Salt river valley irrigation district last night, passed through Phoenix today without having done great damage in the city. The dam age in the rural districts also is be lieved to be less than that done by a Cave creek flood last August. After efforts to divert the water at a point northwest of the state capital to keep the flood trom. the capitol and fashionable residence district in that vicinity had failed, the water spread over a large por tion of the capitol grounds. Thcri was not sufficient volume of water, however, for it to enter the building, Traffic to and from the west over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F and the Arizona Eastern railway still was suspended tonight as a result of cuts made in the embanio ments on which their tracks are lo cated. These embankments last Au gust served as retaining walls and caused the, water in the vicinity or the capitol to reach a much greater depth than otherwise would have occurred. The embankments were cut easily today to give the waters free exit. Some water still is coming down from Cave creek but only in small volume. -Taxi Driver' Kills Self After Quarrel With Wife Following a quarrel with his wife in their rooms at 2617 Harney street Monday night, J. M. Kiner, 31, a chauffeur for the Yellow Lab com pany, picked up a .32-caliber revolver and sent a bullet through his right temple. ' Police found his wife, Viola, weep ing hysterically over him. He was rushed to Lord Lister hospital, but died within a few moments. Mrs. Kiner told police she was to meet her husband in front of the postoffice at 6 Monday night. When he failed to appear she went home. He arrived soon and they quarreled. 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The French acceptance w communicated to Secretary Hughe by Ambassador )userand late to day while proceedings of the confer ence were passing through another period of outward inactivity, but while developments that touched on several other important issues were stirring behind the scenes. The Chinese, moving to break their deadlock with the Japanese over Shantung, acted toward more direct employment of the proffered "good offices" of Secretary Hughes and Mr. Balfour. - The heads of the American and British delegations were approached by the Chinese representatives, and in some quar ters' delinitc results are expected within a few days. , Following the example of the Americans, the British Rroup indi cated it will have no objection to the Japanese proposal to clarify further the scope of the new four- power .Pacific treaty, so that it will not apply to the principal islands of the Japanese empire. A definite declaration, to, be approved by the four signatory' powers, is under stood to be in preparation." ' Meantime, work on two important collateral features of the conference, involving technical details of the naval settlement and revision of the Chinese tariff system, moved for ward iu subcommittees. The naval experts subcommittee spent today clearing away remaining loose ends of the naval agreement, and the tariff subcommittee is understood to have reached a virtual decision regarding readjustment of-China's tariff sched ule. , .. Before the meeting of the tariff body its chairman, Senator Under wood of the American delegation, conferred with Albert Sarraut, head of the French group, and they are said to have discussed the particular interest of France in the new Chi nese fiscal arrangement, arising out of conditions along the border of French Indo-China. 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