The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-31
Divorce Suit of King VS.. King
Grows Interesting.
MRS. KINGS STATEMENT
A MOTHERLEsS GIRL DECEIVED
AND WRONGED AT SIXTEEN.
Four Mismated Couples Sundered-
The Abbotts, the CaldveIIs, the
Eckises and the AnderjssOns-
Chief Justice Merritt Orders
James Ryan to Pay Temporary
AIimony.

Judge Bartch resumed the hearing of
the divorce suit of Fred King VS.. Jennie
NJ. King at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
AS on the previous day Messrs. Dey &
Street represented the plaintiff and
Powers, Lippman & Straup and Lochrie
the defendant.
S. Pigman was the first witness for
the plaintiff. examined by Attorney Dey.
He said he saw Evans, the correspond
ent, and Mrs. King together at Spring
vile one evening about two or three
months prior to February IA, 1892, the date
when Mrs. King left for the east.
Was Out Late.
Fritz Riepen knew Mrs King in 1870,
under the name of Miss Underwood. She
frequently came to his restaurant on
L O'Clock. On one OCCASION she came
with a lady and two gentlemen after the
theatre was over. She seemed slightly
intoxicated then.
Cross-examined by Judge Powers wit
ness said the best people IN town came TO
his restaurant after the theatre for sup
per; members OF the city council and
others.
The Plaintiff on tie stand.
Fred King, the plaintiff, took the stand
Said he was an engineer on the Rio
Grande Western railway. His business
made it necessary for him to be away
from home four nights d week. w. p.
Evans came to room at his house in
1891. 1t the solicitation of Mrs. King,
witness consented 70 have a roomer il
the house. She said Evans was a nice
man and the rent re would pay would
help them along. Evans roomed with
them until shortly before Mrs. King
went east in February, 1892. Had noticed
that his. wife was running around a
good deal with Evans. He demonstrated
with her and finally insisted on Evans
leaving.
Jennie's Side of It.
This closed the case for the plaintiff,
and Judge Powers, on behalf of the de-
PENDANT, made a statement of what the
defense expected to prove. The Judge
said that the parties TO the, suit were
She was motherless girl and at the
age of 16 was seduced by this plaintiff
The plaintiff came west and later wrote
and he would marry her. Trusting in
him she came, but on her arrival he
told her he was being sued for breach
of promise OF marriage by girl in th>
east, and it would not be wise for him
to marry until he had settled with the
other lady. At his solicitat ton she riee.Iiv
without any marriage ceremony being
performed. In this wav they lived FOR
several years, he introduced her every-
where as his wife. This by the laws
constitute a marriage and in addition. on
December 3D. 1855. Il marriage ceremony
was performed. The judge went on to
state that Mrs. King was careful. rrud-
ent woman. and had assisted her husband
in accommodating his property. and had
been a true and faithful wife to him
nothing wrong ever occurred between
Mrs. King and Evans and that she went
east with the full knowledge and consent
Of her husband. and that the latter had
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and all the property
Mrs. King Tells Her own Story,
Mrs. King then tools the stand and in
reply to Judge Powers, said she was 81
years of age; was acquainted with the
back at her old home in Maine. Thev
became lovers. Witness name was then
Jennie Jones. They became unduly init
mate: Afterwards he came west and
at his solicitation she followed him on
his promising to marry her. When she
arrived he told her about a lady in the
east suing him for breach OF promise and
emf. but to live as man and wife. and did
so for some years. until 1855, when they
were legally married.
Witness did her own housework and
helped Mr.. King to save and accumulate
propertyt She did sewing and other
work for a lady named Mrs Smith It
Riepen's restaurant. She never went
there with men and never was intoxi-
Gated.
She was introduced to Evans by
Miss Cunningham. He came to room at
their house with the consent of Mr.. King
Nothing improper had ever taken place
between her and Evans: She was in
poor health when she went east and hard
Nv expected to live. AT her husbands
solicitation she signed over to him her
interest in their home and all the other
property just before she went away
She did this because, he said if she should
die her folks would claim her share
Witness denied that anything improper
had taken place between herself and
Evans on the train or any where else
She had not undressed the night she was
in the Pullman car. Witness knew moth
ing about the divorce proceedings until
in March as she afterwards found out.
The plaintiff knew where she was who,
the divorce was granted. because she
had frequently written him. Mr. King
had property in the east as we'll as in
Salt Lake, and had money in the bank
When witness learned of the divorce be-
ing granted she borrowed money from a
Lake. When she arrived she met her
husband and they talked over their I!
troubles She explained to him all the |
Incidents OF the trip east and told him |
there was nothing in the sta tements that |
she had been intimate with Evans. They |
then resumed marital relations at the |
Broom hotel and the Reed hotel in Og- |
considered the divorce legal and that |
was WHY she consented to have relations |
with him again. Since the granting of |
the divorce the second time she had had |
no marital relations with him.
further hearing was continued until |