The San Francisco call., 1899-10-03
ROMANCE Of A
POOR YOUNG MAN
AIRED IN COURT
Geo. Everett Did Not
Pay Alimony.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
90S broadway Oct. 2.


A real romance of an unfortunate young
man was aired in Superior Judge Halls
court this afternoon. The young man was
George c.. Everett, on whose behalf his
attorney, l.. J. Harvey Jr, had peutioned
the court for a modification of an order
for SIS monthly alimony Incorporated in
a decree of divorce granted to Mary r..
Everett in February, 1898. Everett is aged
SO years and his divorced wife has passed
her fiftieth summer.
The divorce was granted on the ground
of extreme cruelty and the trial at the
time proved decidedly sensational. 1t was
shown that the couple had lived together
happily but two weeks, when the husband
manifested an unusual personificatlon OF
the green-eyed monster, expressing 1eai-
ousy over the daily visits of the milkman,
the butcher, the baker and the candle
stick maker. and even the iceman was not
free from Everetts suspicion As sum
mary measure Mrs. Everett finally bun
died her jealous spouse out Oh the mousse
and sued for a divorce.
Everett was formerly theological stu
dent but according to Mrs. Everett s
Allegations corroborated by three Wit
nesses al the divorce trial, his capacity
for fine liquors was hardly in accord with
his chosen calling. On one occasion, too,
he became decidedly ferocious, drawing q
revolver on his spouse. For this he was
arrested His plea was TO nave been IN
sanity, and at the suggeStlon OIL ms at
declared him sound mentally. However,
that case was dropped the wife declining
to swear to a complaint.
After the divorce was granted Everett
claimed to have come across a letter,
supposedly written by his ex-wife, where
in some unknown writer advised her to
keep out of Everett's path, warning her
what a slick devil Everett is Polished.
hut oh so bad He is said to be insane,
but this is not so, for he is devilish to the
core
pleaded poverty and sickness. He said
the only work he had performed since the
entering of the decree was in Pendleton,
Watered his sisters grass lawn. He
claimed to be a sufferer from nervous
prostration, functional heart trouble,
stomach trouble and fainting spells and
charity of relatives.
He had contended in previous testimony
that his claim TO illness and complications
had been verified by Drs. Russell and
Bradley, but Mrs. Everett in expounding
her version of these matters declared that
the doctors had told her they considered
had advised him to don his old clothes
and go to work; but the doctor expressed
doubts as to Everetts ability to follow
or succeed in a professional life.
The ex-wife apparently labored under
the impression that Everett is not a poor
man. for she made the startling declara-
tiOn that a Mrs. L. Henry OF Oklah mad
told her that Everett had been making
money and that he had been lavishlng
presents on her. Moreover, Mrs Everett
gave impetus to a rumor that her ex-hus-
band was engaged to be married again.
Mrs. Everett was represented at the
hearing to-day by Attorney E. c. Robin
son. who made an eloquent plea that Ev-
erett's petition be denied. In fact, the
attorney declared that his client is
afraid of her life and that Everett has
not paid one cent of the alimony or
dered
Judge Hall gently stroked his beard as
he summed up the case and unused the
preliminary remarks to his decision. II
think there is something wrong in the
young mans upper story, said his Honor.
The fact Of his marrying a woman so
years old is evidence of that and l think
the doctor was quite right when he said
this defendant would never make a pro-
fessional man. On the other hand this
plaintiff is able to support herself and
him, too, for that matter, If he'd behave
himself. Possibly there is some vocation
whe; eby he can realize enough TO support
himself.
HE has nothing now, and 1t is not the
policy of the law to keep a milestone
about a man forever. OF course If he
she uld be struck by lightning and inherit
something, II would al be very well, but
we cannot disturb the past; so / can see
no reason for not modifying the ORDER
Judge Hall accordingly modified the de-
cree by striking the future payment of
alimony until further order of the court,