Charles W. Darst, continued

DARST DIVORCE CASE

SENSATIONAL HEARING IN COURT
THIS AFTERNOON

Former Landlord of the Watkins House
Who Eloped with a Domestic Defendant
in a Mad Divorce Case - _____ in
the Court Room.

When Judge Smalley convened common pleas court this afternoon the hearing of the Darst divorce case was immediately begun and a................................................................................................................................................................

The case comes up from Prospect, the village which basks on the banks of the Scioto and seldom knows any of the badness of this wicked world. It will be remembered by Star readers that Darst was at one time landlord of the Watkins house, the leading hostelry of Prospect, and that he forssk his pretty little wife and ran off with a hired girl. The particulars of the sensational elopment was printed in this paper at the time. Later Darst returned to Prospect but Mrs. Darst refused to make up with him and entered suit for divorce. She charged him with adultery and desertion.

Considerable evidence of a sensational character is being adduced and the usual crowd of curious citizens is there to hear and see.

Friday 1 JUL 1898 - The Marion Daily Star, Marion, Ohio