St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-28
HE'S IN A HOT BOX
Dr.. Hurd Must Pay 1925 by
Tuesday or Go to
Prison
FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT
In Failing to Pay Alimony, Is
the Order Of Judge
Willis.
If
a SENSATIONAL AFFIDAVIT
Charging Mrs. Hurd and Mrs.
DAILY With Being Very
Naughty.
FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT
! SENSATIONAL AFFIDAVIT


Judge Willis yesterday found him
guilty of contempt of court for not
complying with the order to pay his
wife, Annie A. Hurd, alimony and
attorney fees, pending the hearing of
his suit for divorce, and the doctor is
ordered to pay by Tuesday morning
the $3.50 balance due, SIPS fine for
contempt and $40 additional costs, or
be committed to the county Jail for
period not to exceed ninety days.
Neither one Of the principals was
present yesterday when the matter
came up on an order to show cause,
but affidavitS were submitted on both
sides that were sensational enough
to satisfy the greatest lover of the
salacious, one affidavit offered by the
doctor-that of James P. Heeney, a
detective, against Mrs. Hurd-being
especially racy.
The doctors suit for divorce on the
ground of infidelity has been pending
since early last summer. The woman
filed cross-complaint in which she
charged the doctor with like effenses
and others too numerous to mention.
On motion made by Mrs. Hurd for
alimony and the custody of the three
children, the court granted her both,
ordering the doctor to pay her SIS
week from Aug. 1, and $3.50 addi-
tiOnal as attorneys fees. A short
time ago,
MRS. HURD COMPLAINED
to the court that of the 5000 that
should have been paid to her under
this order, only $40 had been paid,
though she had joined the doctor in
giving a $1,750 mortgage on their
homestead on the representation that
the money was to be paid to her.
She further alleged that he has an
r income of $4,000 year, and she asked
the court for an order directing him
| to show cause why he should not be
adjudged in contempt of court and
/ compelled to pay. This order was
made returnable yesterday, and it
| was on the hearing of it that the case
I came up.
In answer to his gwife's affidavit, the
| doctor filed one in which he set forth
7 that she misrepresented his financial
| condition.; that he owes debts aggre-
eating $4,000, and isSon the verge or
| bankruptcy, his property being all
heavily mortgaGed; that $4,000 worth OF
| furniture they had in their house when
| the trouble began be turned over to
| his wife and she sold lit: that LIS
/ business has fallen off in consequence
I OF the disgrace brought upon him by
!; her conduct: thereby greatly reducing
! his income SO that it is nowhere near
T the figure represented by her, and that
he had paid her all he could; he charged
| that the woman was leading dis
solute life and was extravagant in her
| tastes and dress.
Milton A. Landons the doctors con-
| fidential man, also filed an affidavit,
confirming the doctors representations
about his poverty. @3
i The affidavit of Detective Heeney
+ set forth that on March 81 last, he
| had seen Mrs. Hurd and Mrs. DAILY go
| to the Northern hotel in Minneapolis
about o'clock in the evening, where
L THEY MET TWO MEN
mot their husbands-in the parlor, and
! after conversing together until about
r. o'clock, Mrs. Daily and one of the
men retired to room 224, while Mrs.
| Hurd and the other went to room 223
+ Heeney looked through a window in
| to the room occupied by Mrs. Hurd,
| and saw her in sweet deshabille. He
also saw the man cut off the "piper's"
| view by going to the window and pull
| ing down the curtain. About an hour
I later he saw the women emerge from
| the hotel and go to their place of
| business on Hennepin avenue. For
the relief of the men, it may be
stated that affiant says he did not
+ know either of them.
Following is the order of Judge Will
/ lis:
Plaintiff is hereby adjudged guilty
of willful contempt to this court in re-
fusing to comply with previous or
ders for the payment of alimony and
| counsel fees, and it is hereby ordered
| that he forthwith pay to the clerk Of
| this court as a fine for. such con-
tempt, and as punishment for his
fault and disobedience in the premises,
the sum of $125, and that in default of
the payment of such fine, he be inn
| prisoned in the county jail until such
fine be paid, for period not exceed
ing three months. The execution of
the judgment is stayed until Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock. Also that unless
he shall pay the alimony and counsel
fees herein and the costs of. prosecut-
ing said action and for the care and
support of the children, he shall be
imprisoned in the county jail until such
order shall have been fulfilled"
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