The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-06
ST. JOHN.
The Sues for an Absolute Divorce
from Her Husband.
Hers is Counter suit-They Fell in Love
with Each Other When Both We're Mar
ried-Both Charge Adultery.

LONDON, Dec. 5. - Miss Florence St.
John, the actress, has brought suit against
her husband, Duplany Marius, for abso-
Lutte divorce. She charges him with cruelty
and adultery.
Miss st. John charges since her marriage
to defendant he has treated her in the most
cruel manner, and also has been criminally
intimate with other women. Miss st.
Johns is counter action brought to Offset
similar suit against her by Marius. He
alleges his wife has had improper relations
with Arthur Cohen. suo-editor of the FL
ndncfdl Neus. Marius asks no money dam
ages against Cohen, but only asks the court
to rid him of his marriage ties,
Sir Charles Russell appeared for petit
toner and G. F. Gill for respondent. Mr.
Gill admitted
THE CHARGE OF ADULTERY WAS TRUE
Miss st. John deserted her husband. Sir
Charles Russell stated Marius and Miss
ST. John fell in love when they were Doth
married persons They so far forgot their
duties to their respective partners, that
the procuring of divorce by Mrs. Marlus
and another by Miss st. Johns husband
was rendered necessary. After these di-
yorceS were granted, Marius married Miss
st. John. The couple did not live happily,
tween them. Finally, in September, 1885,
Marius knocked his wife down and so
abused her, had it not been for the fact
that her brother was in the house, there is
no saying how his violence would have
ended. After this trouble they no longer
lived together as man and wife.
Miss St. John was called TO
the witness box. Said she met
Marius in 1887. After he had been d.
vorced from his wife and she from her
husband, she married him in 1885. In 1886
child was born to them. She had much
reason to complain of Marius' Incorporate
habits in 1887 and 1883.
WHEN DRUNK HE WAS VERY VICIOUS
and insulting. Witness gave in detail
number of acts of cruelty on part of re-
spondent. Miss st. John said she told
man named Danish if he appeared in court
IN this case she would have him arrested
Tor theft She said she only asked him if
ne was going to repay money he had stolen
from her. He denied having stolen money.
Witness stated she was very fond of her
husband. When at Nice she wrote him
daily. He had written her very indecent
letter which she had not kept. She had
complained of the iudecency of her hus-
bands expressions. Witness admitted she
had dlned with Arthur Cohen in pu bic
places. He was very kind to her and her
husband made no objection to Cohen visit
ing and giving her presents; on the cou-
trary he rather encouraged him. She said
she was not fifteen years of age when first
married. She went to Monte Carlo with
Lady Eustou. Cohen was there Also but
not with her Afterwards she went with
Cohen, Mr.. Wertheimer and Lady Euston
to Nice.
COHEN GAVE HER JEwELRY
just as other people did. She did not tell
her husband on one occasion when he
threw watch at her she would visit Cohen
much as she liked. She denied she was in
the habit of using obscene language She
testified she received affectionate letters
from her husband after their separation
lmploring for return to him. She ad-
mitted writing her husband stating she
had declared she had been intimate with
Harry Marks, proprietor of the Financta
NerS. She had not thought him base
enough to make that assertion. But man
named Harvey and Captain Blythe had
told her he Cher husband) was trying to
blackmail Marks. Captain Blythe told her
Colonel North (the nitrate king said
Marks would be glad to injure him. AT
this point cOurt ad iournei