Madisonville: One of the most intensely ludicrous, ridiculous and also interesting trials that has occurred in Hopkins county was held yesterday evening at the court house, before his honor A.J. Sisk, county judge. The defendants were J.H. dame and his son William, and Dames son in law William Neal. It was on a writ of Habeas corpus, brought by Ed Allender. The parties all live seven or eight miles northwest of this place and are near neigbbors. Some time last November the plaintiff, Allender, undertook to chastise his eighteen year old son, Joseph. The young gentleman rather than take the proposed chastisement, retreated to a neighbors house, claiming that the old man had, during the affair, drawn a shot gun on him. The young man finally took up his abode among the defendants to this suit. Allender began to try to induce the runaway son to return to his bosom. Libery was sweet to, the youthful Joseph, who discovered about this time that J.H. Dame had apromising daughter, who was exceedingly lovely to him. About a week ago the old man, finding that he could not persuade his son to return to him, having warned the parties not to harbor his offspring longer, got out a writ of habeas corpus, and had it served upon the parties, returnable last Tuesday. Only one, William Dame, respondedat the time. While this was going on some parties assisted the young man to steal the lovely young Miss dame, and on last Tuesday evening they boarded the train and went to springfield, Tenn.., where the boy and girl were made husband and wife. A writ of arrest was issued for J.H. Dame and William Neal, and yesterday they were brought into court and made to answer the charge of detaining, hiding or keeping the festive Joseph. There were about half a dozen witnesses on either side. Much of the evidence was conflicting while the whole of it was exceedinly amusing. The whole family trouble with the courtship of the young people was detailed, to the amusement of the large crowd which was attracted hither by curiosity. Lawyer Brown acted for the defense, while lawyer Pratt prosecuted the case. The Judges opinion was tha tJ.H. Dame and William Neal should pay the cost of the prosecution for not answering the first summons, but were found not guilty of forcibly detaining the boy. The young man, Joseph was found guilty of matrimony, and sentenced to live with his new wife until separated by death, whil Ed. Allender, the plaintiff, was sentenced to lose the work of the boy from this time and forever more. New Era 1885 Betty Sellers