Our attention has been called to an error in the report of the Recorders Court proceedings for the last week in the case of State vs Clarence Utley, charged with non-support of family. The defendant was found guilty. The defendant was sentenced to be confined in jail four months but judgement was suspended upon payment of cost during good behavior. The suspended judgment was omitted when the report was given to The Herald reporter.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, May 19, 1925. Divorce was difficult and relatively rare, but husbands and wives did split up. Usually women went back to their parents. Men left their homes but were not allowed to financially abandon their children.
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