Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-15
DOMESTIC JARS.
HOW THEY ARE SHOWN UP IN THE
DALTON DIVORCE CASE.
The Evidence Given Yesterday-Mrs.
Dalton Accuses Her Husband of JeaI-
ousy-The Defendant Tells His Side of
the Story.

The Dalton divorce case was resumed
before Judge Clark yesterday afternoon.
The deposition of Mrs. Elizabeth Colby
which was taken during the morning.
was introduced as part of the plaintiffs
testimony. Mrs. Colby told of quar-
rel between the Daltons over the pres
ence of man named Hall in the house.
Dalton objected to his presence and was
anxious to drive him from the house.
Hall was in the parlor and Daiton
learned of his being there by looking
through the keyhole in the door.
Dalton got his six shooter and wanted to
bore few holes through the obnoxious
visitor. Mrs. Dalton and deponent kept
the angered husband from doing vio-
lence to Hall. They would not allow
him to open the parlor door. He called
Hall some unpleasant names and told
his wife he would shoot her if she did
not keep out of his wav.
Mrs. Mabel Dalton, the plaintiff, was
recalled to testify about her husbands
actions. She said he was jealous of men
with whom che had nothing but bust
ness relations. She mentioned one
Kintey, as one of the men of whom her
husband was jealous. Dalton accused
her of infidelity and charged her with
associatiDg and consorting with disso-
lutte characters.
The defendant told his story after
Mrs. Dalton was dismissed from the
stand. He said his wife repeatedly re-
ferred to him as lazy and good for moth
ing, called him sneak, thief and
charged him with taking advantage of
her in every possible way.
On the 18th of August, 1891, Mrs.
Dalton drew loaded pistol and threat
ened to put an end to his existence.
They had trouble at that time about
stock. He went to the house with a
man named Thompson, one Johnson
and Mexican, and they proceeded to a
corral to get the cattle. Mrs. Dalton
objected; she objected very strongly to
the stock being taken away and was
very greatly excited. She ran into the
house crying, "I'll get my little gun, and
see whether you take that-stock :" She
reappeared in few minutes with her
''little gun," which she poked under
Dalton's nose and said che would shoot
if he took the stock. The argument
was too much for Dalton and he went
away. The weapon which Mrs. Dalton
is said to have used to convince her hus-
band that he had better leave the
stock in the corral, was produced at this
juncture. 1t is small, nckle plated, %
caliber affair. Witness identified il and
swore that it was loaded at the time.
He also testified that Mrs. Dalton is
rather handy with six-shooter.
The defendants arrest in September
on charge OF rape was then gone into.
He testified to being arrested on a COM
plant charging him with rape on the
adopted daughter OF his father-n law,
and to his examination and discharge by
Justice Austin. He swore that Ms.
Dalton went to the district attorney
with her father to procure the COM
plant and afterwards she attended the
examination.
She made an assault on him while his
case was pending. He had been in
court expecting the matter would come
to hearing, but it was continued. His
wife met him just outside the door of
the courtroom. She grabbed him by
the coat and wrist and yelled: "Pll
kill you, I'll kill you, you wretch. !"
Witness seized her by the arm and
showed her back into the courtroom, and
Deputy Constable Harvey Johnston
took charge of her.
Dalton testified that his wife went on
shooting trip with man. She told
him she was going to Clearwater. He
could not swear where she went. He
made frequent objections to her being
with other men, and had trouble with
her about photograph of one of her
friends which she placed in an album
She knew he objected to her going about
with men. He charged her with inf
delity several times.
On one occasion. when che charged
him with being thief, etc., he told her
that if she persisted in her accusations
he would shoot her. He called her a
liar at that time. When he made the
threat ne was unarmed.
G. G. Stephens, Esq, the defendants
counsel. offered in evidence number
of letters, which were acknowledged by
Mrs. Dalton to be in her handwriting.
Some of the letters were addressed to
George Stamps. They were offered as
tending to show that the defendant had
reason to doubt his wife's fidelity.
Counsel for the plaintiff objected to
the letters as immaterial. The court
reserved the ruling on their admissible
itv. and they were filed without being
read. Witness was being cross-exam.
| ined when court adjourned.