The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-16
MRS. MARTINS AFFIDAVIT.
Another Chapter In the Celebrated
Provo Divorce Case.
Especial to The Herald.)

Especial to The Herald)
Provo, Oct. 15.-Another chapter in
the Martin case is out, but it is not the
| last. Yesterday the defendant in the
case Of Herman S. Martin VS.. Edith l.
Martin filed the following affidavit:
The above entitled action is brought
against me by the plaintiff to obtain a
decree disSolVtng the bonds of matrimony
now existing between the plaintiff and
myself. The plaintiff charges me with
having treated him in a cruel and inhu-
man manner, the result of which was in
jury TO his mind and body. L will be
aple 10 show, If l am permitted a de-
tense in this case, that if there has been
any injury done to plaintiff mind or
body, that l am not responsible for it,
but that it is due to causes which 1 could
not control.
L admit that I charged plaintiff in a
proceeding instituted by me against him
Tor a divorce, as stated in his complaint.
put VIII be able to justify such charge in
my defense L dismissed the said cause
because the plaintiff came to me to do so,
stating that it would save him from
financial ruin. and that he would ever
after treat me kindly, and that he would
turn from the wayward course he was
pursuing. l will be able to show that
the other matter set out in plaintiffs
complaint is not true except in a much
modified way, and that ] was justified in
doing what L did. l further state that 1
nave good defense TO plaintiffs charge.
Soon after / dismissed my cause against
the plaintiff he, by kind words and prom
lseS, which have proven specious and
empty. induced me TO deed to his mother
my home and residence. of the value of
S5.O0;. leading me to believe by his pre-
sentatons that it would not interfere with
my living there. and that il would be a
great help to himself and his mother, and
promising to take good care of men; that
Immediately afterward he abandoned me,
ana served notice upon and compelled me
10 leave the said home and residence,
well knowing that 1 was without the
means or place to live, and as the agent
OF his mother. rented the house to other
people. He has utterly failed to supply
me with any means of living. / am who'll
~ without means or property except my
wearing apparel and scant household fur
nlture, and l have no way to live except
ny my own labor and the charity of my
friends. But the plaintiff is a banker and
is the owner of large sums of money and
other property, and is abundantly able
TO support me and TO provide and pay for
my defense in this case.
L am of small stature and of delicate
health. ans am unable to earn by labor
the means necessary for my defense and
support during the tendency of this case
L therefore ask that this court make an
order requiring plaintiff to pay into court
Tor me sufficient sum of money to ena-
bic me to employ counsel. and for my
support and for the necessary expenses
of conducting my defense and that nv
time to plead be extended till I get the
means from the plaintiff necessary for
my defense; that $500 for the purposes
ABOVE stated would not be disprOportion
ate 10 the plaintiff S means.