The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-22
JUDGE HILES GRANTS
CRIST OF DIVORCES
TWcniy-SeVcn Unhappy Couples Are Given Legal
Separations.
Tales Of Woe Were Interesting, Amusing and Pathetic
Several Cases We're Turned Over TO Referees.


weekly receipt Of the handsome salary
of fifteen per. Scott insinuated that his
mOther-in-laW was at the bottom of
his 1Wife's estrangement from the fam
lily hearth. None Of his personal charms
had been sufficient to WOO her back
again.
Louise NJ. CrismOn startled the ladies
when she told her story to the court
She thought that her husbands name
should have been Crimson instead of
Crismon for he came home on one oc-
casiOn covered with blood and made the
startling announcement that he had
slain her own brother. Her sisterly love
asserted itself to the point that she
passed into a state OF temporary OBJ
liviOn.
She also informed the court in an
sWeT to the questioning of her counsel,
Noah J. Scheckell, that her husband
ought to be a member of the bar, as he
showed a decided liking for it. and it
had a bad influence on him when he
came home nights. There are three
children, issue of the marriage, of
which Mrs. Crismop viii have the Gus
tody. j. z. Murphy, the father of the
lady seeking freedom from her letters,
testified to the truth of his daughters
allegations. He said that Sidney had
left his daughter and gone to Oregon.
When he had sickened and taken to his
bed the faithful wife had sought his
side and cared for him. But there was
no gratitude in Sid, and it would be
better that his daughter should live
away from such a man.
Referee Fred ". Little had heard the
case of Smith VS.. Smith on the 21st of
last month and the plaintiff wife, Eliza
beth, was allowed 81, 500 on the recon-
% Of h. -.
besides $50 attorney fees.
Burnham Got Tired.
Amy Burnham's husband, Edward T.,
got tired in the spring of 1897 All
remedies failed to effect a cure and he
took q change of venue and has not
been seen since. The Burnhams took
the vows of matrimony in 1885, and the
wife was left with three youngsters on
her hands. She took in washing and
eked ont living in this way. Her
turncoat husband is an ex-freman of
this city.
Judge Anderson made his appearance
in court about IL o'clock with Emily
Henrietta Fuller whose husband James
William, elected to pot Filipinos with a
Krag-J oTgensen to enduring the pin
pricks Of married felicity Mrs. Fuller
had endured him for three long years.
After this period he pawned their badge
of matrimony and was promptly
thrown into the county Jail. He went
west to grow up with the country.
There are two little Fullers in Illinois
of which Mrs. Fuller will have the Gus
tody
Mary a. Soils made a lightning
change to Mary A Jackson. The
courts hair fairly stood on end at the
story she told of her husband trying
TO emulate the wife-slayer Thiede. He
drew a vivid and blOod-curdIing pic
ture on the occasion, of himself swing0.
ing on the gallOws in the moonlight.
Whlle his better half slept in peace
under ground. Soils made his exit
shortly after this and is believed to
have gone into tragedy, although he is
not yet known to have done any star
ring.
Bertha Click said that she did not
believe in keeping boarders when her
husband ought to be keeping her. She
had been married for thirteen years
TO the man with the impossible name.
and was here to find out whether or
not the court would decide as to lucki-
ness or unluckiness of that number.
Hattie He'll had made the fatal mis-
take Of going for matrimOny after the
bloom of youth and she and he had
become strangers. A year and a half
was enough of John and he went to
Carson City and. Seattle. The court
let her out of her predicament
Lived on $40 a Year.
Vilate G. Taylor informed the court
that SO was an entirely Inadequate in
come to support a grown woman for
period OF twelve months. She had tried
the experiment for two successive
years and was 10th to confess that
there was nothing in it. The court saw
the philosophy of her remarks and
granted decree. Mrs. Taylor gets
81 800 alimony in monthly instruments
of $25 attorney ices and costs of suit
She has been marFre,j- for twelve years
and has two daughters.
Thella Braun made her venture at
the unripe age of II. Her marriage was
the result of her BETRAYAL. She became
a child mother shortly after she as
sumed the band of gold, but she stated
that she and Peter had never lived to-
gether under the same roof. Peter was
not there to refute the charge. Judge
Mcdowell had taken the case.
Matilda FageHberg has a double as
that marriage is a failure for
she has tried it twice. She has five
children to care for by the two hus-
bands. Her second deserted her three
years ago this August.
Alice II. Tuckett entered the state of
on the 1st of April four
years ago. She believes that her hus-
band must have played an All Fools
day joke on her for he has never been
the man she took him for On three
separate occasions he locked her out of
the house. That was surely enough to
prove the correctness of her theory.
The court thought so and granted her
plea.
Minnie A Macy told the court that
her husband yFas laboring under the
mistaken idea that he had a system.
When he had had a few drinks he was
always positive Of this But bucking
the tiger and buyine the baby boots
were like oil and water. They would
not mix although her husband had al
ways been considered quite a mixer.
The court was fain to admit the sound
ness of the argument
Other cases were a good deal along
the same lines. The court had a tired
smile of relief when il was all over.
Two more cases and he would have
been in a state of nervous collapse.