The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-25
4 BINGHAM SENSATION.
Geneva Lincoln's Damage Suit
Against School Trustees.
DEMANDS
$4,000.
BREACH OF CONTRACT AND DE-
FAMATION OF CHARACTER.
The Divorce Mil Grinding Away
Mrs. Amy Albright Granted De-
cree on the Grounds of Desertion
and Failure to support-Bailey
VS.. Bailey.

Geneva Lincoln, the pretty pedagogue /
who has been instructing Bingham's
rising generation in the science of ar
cherry, grasped the bow and arrow her !
self yesterday and dispatched an
envenomed dart at the school board of
that district jointly and severally.
The first dart was leveled at the
school board, composed of =. L. Cush-
ing, H. J. Gregerson and H. Bowdish,
whom she charges with breach of con-
tract and for which she demands repair
alton in the sum of 81, 600. The pretty
plaintiff through her attorneys Messrs.
Richards & Richards, F. S and j. I.
respectively, sets up that she presented
her certificate to the board and that
having satisfied themselves of her
qualifications she made a contract toi
preside over the mixed" school for a
period of ten months, at $50 per month,
commencing with September 5, last
The school was progressing, as dis
trict schools are wont TO progress,
when suddenly the little woman awoke
=
lively characterize it, ''unceremonious-
~. wantOnly and maliciously' elected.
No complaint, Os which copy was
lodged with her, no trial, but Rsum-
marily and unceremoniously hreu
without apology or explanation.
There was a cause, well taken or
imaginary, for il, however, and the
woman. scorned, determined to fathom
it. The neighbors aided her. Scandal,
dark and dismal. bounded her every
moment. She finally triumphed and
with tears streaming from her eyes
again reached into scorned woman
/ eXhaustless culver.
/ This time she drew bead on Trustees
/ II. Bowdish and H. J. Gregerson whom
/ she charges with assaiiing her charac-
ter with the most brutal defamation.
( To reproduce the exact language and
/ explosives, alleged to have been di-
rected by the defendants against her,
/ would be to commit the columns of a
4 great daily to deliberate obscenity.
For cause of action the plaintiff
! states that the defendants together
with +. L. Cushing of the school, had
( stated in the presence of various and
/ sIJndrv persons on January % last
I that Richard Rogers had been seen
entering her apartments and that
through a knot hole in the partition
Mrs Snyder had seen plaintiff and
Rogers under compromising circum-
/ stances. Quoting further from the de-
PENDANTS plaintiff alleges that they
further accused her of embracing one
Gray and that to finally gratify her
consuming lust she had fed the boys
attending her school upon cake con-
tanning the powerful stimulant of the
passions.
She denounces this as false, defama-
tory and slanderous and for it demands
damages in the sum of $4,000
Nor was her culver yet empty. Fit
ting another shot to the strings OF her
bow she sends it, piercing the scandal
fraueht air at the head of Trustee r,
L. Cushing Against him she recites
the same cause of action and demands
Judgment in the sum of $4,000, making
a total of S21, 900 against the poaro
Jointly and seVerally.
:. The friends of the fair plaintiff 1T
this city, where for a year she tauShl
ischool have been staggered and viii
await with intensest impatience, be
lieying that she will be able 10 sub
lstaptiate her declarations and procure
at the hands of court the redress
10 which the offense, if it is proven
will entitle her. She is a graduate of th5
state normal school of Colorado, from
which she bears a certificate, HOOD o.
affidavits in the hands of her attorneys
bear evidence of the high esteem II
! which she is held by a large number
of reputable citizens of the district
from which she has just been retired
, and the case promises to be one OF the
most exciting and dramatic ever con
: tested in the courts of Salt Lake. Mis-:
Lincoln declares she will vindicate hel
character or perish in the attempt.
Bailey VS.. Bailey.
Mrs. Clemenia p. Bailey has com
l menced divorce proceedings in thu
First district court against her hus
band, William Bailey, to whom sh,
was married in this city nearly tel
> years ago. and both parties ere wei
, known here. Plaintiff alleges crue
treatment on the part of The defend
> ant, that his violent temper compelled
I lher to seek refuge with her mother a
4 Butte in the spring of 1887, to whicl
I place he followed and created a seen
> at the hotel where they were stopping
p He induced her, so the complaint set
4 out to return with him to Utah, hu
: their domestic relations continued un
c happy, he accusing her of imprope
+ relations with one Lindsay She fur
q Their alleges that in September 1855
6 respondent became angry because sh
I refused to consent to his adoption o
n a daughter by former marriage, an
a
p fered from nervous prostration. Tw
years later plaintiff alleges that sh
was again compelled to leave his pres
ence, but a reconciliation took plac
and they made an effort TO live tc
v gether. The domestic storms contir
ued, however, and she alleges that
June, 1892, defendant drew knife an
e threatened her with bodily harm. Al
1t ter this she claims he accused her {
e having improper relations with on
Or Brough. In the summer of 1888 plair
. tiff went to New York to resume he
u studies in the dramatic art, whereupo
/ her husband renewed the charges
3 infidelity, naming one Davidson an
Il one Haywood. Plaintiff claims thu
these charges were all SANDER, an
that defendant has thereby injured he
e lstanding socially and in her professio
as an actress. She asks for a deere
t of divorce and an equitable Givisio
~ of the property consisting of a res
n dence, some blooded horses and floc
v of sheep.
# The Divorce Mill.
D A decree of divorce was yesterday Ell
s. tered in the case of Amy Albrigl
f against Charles c. Albright en- IL
&C grounds of desertion and non-suppor
The divorced twain We're married
- Salt Lake four years ago.
In the divorce proceedings betwee
Elizabeth and Amos Smith an ord