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...Mary Ware Dennett, 53, a grandmother, sat in a Brooklyn court last week studying the faces of twelve Brooklyn men, middle-aged and elderly, who in turn eyed her. They were a Federal Jury sitting to decide whether she had committed a criminal obscenity by sending through the mails a 24-page pamphlet she had written, entitled The Sex Side of Life. Beside Mrs. Dennett sat her 28-year-old son Carleton (with his wife) and her younger son Devon, aged 24. Near her sat Attorney Morris L. Ernst and Dr. R. L. Dickinson of the N. Y. Academy...
What the Jury Was Told. It was related, by consent of both parties, that Mrs. Dennett had mailed the pamphlet. The question was on its obscenity. The prosecutor "explained" the case 'to the jury. He read excerpts from Havelock Ellis and Henry Louis Mencken recommending the pamphlet, but later Judge Barrows instructed the jury: "I warn you against giving these the credence of testimony." Then Prosecutor Wilkinson, a fine, bluff man, read the pamphlet aloud while the courtroom, crowded with spectators, listened breathlessly...
...defense placed Mrs. Dennett on the stand. She was allowed to answer three or four minor questions, concerning the fact that she had written the pamphlet 15 years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...
Ernest Henry Schelling, children's musician, suddenly cabled from Celigny, Switzerland, that he would play a wedding march over the trans-Atlantic wireless telephone to Manchester, Mass., when Anne Pullen Dennett, a friend's daughter, was being married. Her parents, prudent, employed John Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, to play Mendelssohn's march right at the wedding, clearly and on time. Later the Schelling performance crackled from a loud speaker...
...This Dennett owned a chain of 17 restaurants which sprawled across the continent from Manhattan to San Francisco. People called him the "temperance proprietor," because the walls of his liquorless and gruesome eating places were adorned with texts from the Bible. The Lord Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want confronted those who had money enough to eat in Dennett's. Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out. Proprietor Dennett failed, in 1901, for $92,000. Most of his creditors were women and missionary societies. His asset was one $20 hand-me-down suit. But young Mr. Childs...