The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-26
A CHARGE Of ADUL Terry
The Bordeaux Case Takes a SEN
sational Turn.
LYMAN A. SISLEY Is NAMED
The Complainant Also Alleges That Mrs.
Bordeaux Was Criminally Init
mate With Several Other
Men at Divers Times.

IHe divorce case OF JOhn IL. BOT-
deaux against Ella F. Bordeaux took
most sensational turn yesterday when
Judge Clancy granted Bordeaux per-
mission to file an amended complaint
in court charging his wife with criminal
intimacy with Lyman A. Sisley, the
well known mining broker, and other
men unnamed. When Bordeaux filed
his original complaint about a month
ago he only alleged desertion, claiming
that he did not want to give publicity
to more serious charges he could bring
against her. He tried to keep even the
allegations of desertion from the pub
lie, and for her sake, and for the sake
of her friends and relatives he claim
ed, tried to keep the case out of the
newspapers. Friends of the parties
thought there would be a settlement
in regard to the property, that Mrs
Bordeaux would not fight the case.
and that he would make ample provisA
ION for her support, in fact that he was
paying her SIS a. month. Mrs. Bor-
deaux, however, decided to make a
fight for a big share of the property
and for a divorce for herself, and there
fore filed an answer and cross bill
charging her husband with extreme
cruelty in driving her from their home.
Bordeaux then concluded to press other
charges as a ground for divorce and
asked leave of the court to file an
amended complaint, the matter coming
up for hearing yesterday and was Wig
orously opposed by Mrs. Bordeaux's
attorney.
Mr.. McClernan read an affidavit made
by Mr.. Bordeaux in which he set forth
the fact that he filed his original COM
plant on the 26th of January, in which
he charged desertion, to which the de-
PENDANT filed an answer and cross bill
in which she alleged extreme cruelty.
At the time of filing the original COM
plant the affiant was not SO well ac-
quainted with the facts and the law
as now and he proposed to add to the
charge of desertion a further charge of
adultery, which new charge he would
substantiate by preponderance of
evidence of creditable witnesses. Mr..
Bordeaux further said that the proper
ty. for which the defendant sued, was
acquired by his own hard labors. After
reading the affidavit Mr.. McClernan
read a number of decisions of courts
in support Of the right to amend the
complaint.
Judge G. w. Stapleton, who also APP
peared for Mr. Bordeaux, followed Mr..
McClernan and cited more authorities
in support of the amendment.
John ]. Mediation and John W. Cot
ter, attorneys for Mrs. Bordeaux, re-
proposed would change the cause of
action and that the new allegations
We're inconsistent with those of the
original complaint. After the court
had listened to the arguments he de-
cided that the amendment would not
prejudice the defendants case and that
the amended complaint could be filed,
which was Immediately done. Its al
legations are that the parties were
married in Butte on June 2, 1886. and
that the defendant deserted the plain
tiff on Jan. 90, 1898. For second
cause Of action the complaint alleges
that on the first day of September. 1891,
in a room in the old Owsley building.
on Park street, the defendant was
criminally intimate with a man whose
name was unknown to the plaintiff,
and that the act was repeated at the
same place and with the same party
at various other times. On Sept. 16,
1897 it is alleged. the defendant was
criminally intimate with Lyman A. Sis
ley at a house on the west side of Mis-
soula gulch. known as S13 West Gran
lite street, and on Oct. 2. 1897. in new
building being erected by James H.
Lynch at 1876 West Park street and
again on Oct. 8, and IA and Nov.
and 10, in a certain room in the west
ern part of the city, and at divers other
times at different places and at the
West Broadway, and further that she
has been similarly intimate at divers
times and places with a number of
persons whose names are unknown to
the plaintiff.
Mr. Bordeaux says that since he has
become cognizant of the commission of
the several acts complained of he has
not lived with the defendant, and he
repeats his prayer for a decree of d.
vorce.
At the afternoon session of court
motion was filed to strike out the
amended complaint and was overruled,
after which the motion of Mrs. Bor-
deau for alimony and counsel fees was
taken up. Mr.. Bordeaux was put on
the witness stand by Mr.. Mediation
and questioned about his finances. He
said he had no cash on hand. but on
the contrary had a note for $4,000 and
an overdraft of nearly $4,000 at Clark's
bank. He said he owned 800 shares
in the Meaderville Mining and Milling
company, a corporation which owned
the Mascotte, Ella and Bordeaux min
ing claims which he located several
years ago. He tried to operate the
property himself, but the expense was
so heavy that he had to give it up, and
the company was organized. At first
he had nearly all of the $4,000 shares Of
stock for which the company was cap
to give blocks of the stock away as
he couldn't carry it and pay the as
sessments on it. He said that very
close to $4,000 had been put into the
property, and about $4,000 worth of
ore had been taken out. but he could
not estimate the value of the property
as the output was uncertain, the
ground was in dispute and the expense
of operation was unusually heavy.
Personally he was in about $1,000. He
owns a half interest III the Little st.
Lawrence mine, but the returns from it
are small. At the request of Mr.. Nc
Hatton, Mr.. Bordeaux gave q list Of all
the property he owns, comprising
half interest in each of the Mountain
View, Prairie Flower and Little st.
Lawrence lode claims, lots 5. and s,
block 80, of the Butte townsite, lots
and . in block 81, and the east 211a
feet of lot IS and all of lot 16 in block
II. The monthly rental from the city
property amounts to $452.25 Mr.. Bor-
deaux said he had no valuable per-
Sonal property and had disposed of