Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-30
A WINTER OF Discomfort.
Divorced By Inv at the Ripe Aso Of
Seventy -four.
a Husband who ITaa a penchAnt for
bmHshinE turniturr.-ifc Souidn't
WORK, nut Ate Wei all the Iinc.

Judge zane this morning was occu.
pied Tor some time with the hearing
Of the divorce suit Of Margaret Peter.
son VI Axel ). L. Peterson, the
petition having been based on the
ground Of failure to provlic.
Attorney J. II. Moyle appeared for
the petitioner and Judge McDowall
aud Attorney A;agrloneaux Tor the
defendant, who by trade Ia tlnsmi,h.
He has also been engaged In mining.
The parties intormarricd In this city
on November lsth, 1875, aud
are quite elderly people. Mrs.
Pctteuon stated that the defendant for
more than three years pasI had failed
to provide her with the necessaries
VI life, although able.bodled and
abundauty capable Of doing no. Her
testimony also tended TO show that he
was a rather troublesome individual to
handle domestically.
IL transplgod from the evidence OF
the plainuill that she was n widow
with n family al the time She married.
Peterson, anu that the defendant was
a wiuower ana also had children.
since the separation the womnuis
children have been maintaining her.
while thu Defendants offspring have
been looking after him.
10 his huswUr tho defendant stated
hu WIS ~ years Of age, that Tor the
last VIA years he has been Va feeble
health AMI unable 10 perform any
physical labor. For fifteen years, he
states, lie provided his vito with
comfortable home; and they resided
happily together TIL May, 1880, when
his wife, insliggted ~ no believes by
certain OF her relatives, refused 10
allow him any longer 10 share the
home with her. Since that time hu
had been homeless anu dependent on
the charity Of friends.
A htpI-sOu AMI stCp,daughter VI the
defendant were called aud testified
that he could have worked had ho felt
disposed, but when their mother asked
him to do anything lao would get into
q rage, break the chairs, and on one
occasion demolished "A cupboard 10 the
house.
Attorney Moyle inquired 40 to the
old gvutleman's appetite, ami Peter
sou Jr., who IL a Htrapping young man
OF about twenty eve, Tcplied-Why,
he could got away with more than /
could risht al0ngl
Judge MCDIwsll asked tho stog-gon
whether u WIS not "a fHCl that ho and
his folks Drove the defendant h0m the
house le,0TU this suit WIS brought and
barred INN out. lie answered no, but
said he knew that tho old gentleman
was afterwards taken care of at tho
poor house.
The defendant Is at pro6ont IA Mas. |
sachusUtH, where ne ID being supported |
by ouu Of his daughters; anu Tie step. !
daughter who gave evidence today |
that she uud her brothers had |
been the means Of maintaining their |
mother during tho last Elk years
10 was tOuEht tOHhOw by the defense, |
on the calling OF witnessts, that Pes |
turs0n 5r. hGd ior several yeaIs been |
victim OF rheumatism anu was by NO |
means man able 10 do hard work.
Attorney Moyle claimed that the |
pretended weakness Of the defendant |
wac mere fuint In order 10 Rvuld work |
aud 10 obtain from his aoquAintances
small sums OF money 10 purchase to.
bacrO, etc, whom he came down town. |
Judge Zane, In grating The decree /
Of divorce, said he inilUu 20 sec the
use OF tue marriage Relationship |
between iho parties being continued |
His honor thought tue better way oil |
II this case would be ~ L., |
The plaiuttl's children take care OF her
and the deienuanps children look |
alter HIM. II seemed, he said, pretty |
ricaT from tbs evidence that the de- |
.oudant hal besn "A rather dislgEecabls |
OF the family when he liked. |
uus ONE CONTINUED,
The divorce suit Of Maggie Herman
Va II. j. Herman was continued by
consent.