Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-06-09
IN COURT.
The Wentworth Divorce
Case on Trial.
The Husbands Spicy
CrosS-bill.
A Little Girls Sickening Story
of a Mothers Shame.
Pete Spence, the South ella saloon
Keeper, Convicted of Ag-
gravated Assault.

Pete Spence, the South ella saloon
keeper. was yesterday found guilty OF
aggravated assault in shooting q Next
can last spring on the South ella work.
1t ia said in fact that he has shot two
though no complaint was made in one
case.
Spence is the man who was reported
to be reducing the Mexican population
at an alarming rate and nearly every
week brought word that homicide had
been committed. He was indicted by
the last grand jury for assault with in
tent to kill.
In the case OF Anderson va Hudson a
judgment WAS rendered for the de-
PENDANT though the amount OF it will
be decided this morning and is de-
pendent upon judicial examination of
the accounts of the pa titles whose book
keeping education has been actively ne
elected.
The latter part of the day was taken
up with the divorce case OF Mary f..
Wentworth against Frank q. Went.
worth on the ground OF crueley and de-
sertion. The alleged cruelty consists
in the defendant having charged the
plaintiff with adultery with william
Cornell, a charge which he vet main
tains IL true and he has therefore in
corporated it into cross bill. He WAS
the original plaintiff in a divorce suit
which for some reason was thrown out
OF court. In his complaint was an ex-
hibit consisting OF u letter to him from
Mrs. Wentworth admitting the adult
cry and exulting in 1t.
On account of these letters she pro-
cured his indictment by the late grand
jury for forgery, but both indictments
were Sc aside for irregularity of pro-
cedure in returning them. By the
same grand jury on complaint OF Mrs.
Wentworth, Frank Pauley, one of the
correspondents named in Wentworth's
cross-bill, was indicted for rape, al
legged to have been committed four
years ago. This indictment wac also
set aside for irregulsrity OF procedure.
At the trial yesterday Mrs. Went
worth was first put on the stand. She
denied the charges made against her
by her husband, declared the letters
forgeries, admitted that he had asked
her to write such letters aud that he
frequently taxed her with adultery and
that he had ceased living with her az
ter he had claimed to have caught her
in a compromising relation to Cornell.
She afterward corrected this latter
statement and said the coDjugal rela-
ton was maintained for six months
later.
The animua OF the bitterness with
which the numerous divorce proceed
ings of this pair has been contested +,
lies in a ranch near LehI, worth about
81, AGO which both want. They were
living on this ranch at the time Went
worth went away. Mrs. Wentworth,
afterward moved to Lehi, taking with
her, she admitted, q miscellaneous lot
of cows, chickens, geese, household
furniture, doors, windows, door and
widow castings, q part OF the roof of
the house, in fact, nearly all the COM
munity property, except the adobe
walls of the house, well and some
other object not easily portable.
At the close OF her testimony which
appeared TO be interminable, Judge
Baker proposed to refer the case, but
later decided to hear the evidence OF
Wentworth and his ten year old daugh-
ter. His story was reiteration of the
charges made in his cross bill. The
testimony of the little girl, however,
was painfully interesting as she
confronted her mother with story of
having witnessed her disgraceful con-
duct with Cornell and Pauley. On
cross examination she said that she
had talked with her father last week
about The case and what she would say
she had seen.
Referee Knapp will take the rest of
the testimony relating to the matri-
monial affairs OF Mr.. and Mrs. Went
worth.