The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-17
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Divorce Proceedings Engages
Sole Attention of Town.
WOMAN SCORES VICTORY
DR.. FISK OF HELPER WANTED
DIVORCE; HIS WIFE GOT 1T.
lsnecIal 10 - HeraId.l

also in the state of Indiana, because OF
the prominence OF the parties interest
ed. it has been on trial for the last
four days
The court room has been packed daily
during the trial with an audience large
~ of the female sex.
The suit is one for divorce, in which
/ DR.. F. f. Fisk of this place is plain
I tiff, and G. Allie Fisk of Angola, Ind,
1 is defendant. Judges L. r. Rhodes and
/ J. w. \. WhitecOttOn represent the
( plaintiff Through a most peculiar set
I OF circumstances there is a great multi
phc3ty of counsel on the side of the
/ defense. On the filing Of the COM
plant, a simple charge of deSeTtfOn
/ evidently made with a studied effort to
! conceal many of the facts of the case
1 /. @. Hoffman, Of this place was en-
| gagged at the instance of defendant by
/ correspondence from Indiana. An Or
/ der was procured compelling plaintiff to
/ pay into court $500 for the use of de-
| PENDANT in preparing her defense, and
/ then an order for the taking of the
/ dispositions of some Indiana and Chi
/ CagO witnesses, WhereuDOn it was dis
J covered that exceedingly deep water
I was being encountered, and Thurman
/ & WedgwOod came into the case. The
{ defendant and her mother came here
/ from Indiana and found Thurman &
! WedgwOQd, or either of them, unable
/ to be here, and Mrs. Fisk telegraphed
! home for Legal help.t The plaintiff was
! on hand with his counsel demanding
immediate trial. z. z. Corfman of Pro-
/ vo was here and jumped into the har-
ness, and the case went to trial A
half day passed and Mr.. WedgwoOd
( dropped in to help for a day. Another
/ half day passed and Judge Frank $,
! ROby of Auburn, Ind, arrived.
Both Parties Well-to-do.
Inasmueh as there is a cross-com-
/ plant asking for divorce and alimOny
( on the grounds of desertion and cruel
/ ty, occurring IN the east, added to the
fact that plaintiffs alleged ground for
divorce, that Of desertion, took place
in Indiana, many knotty legal qUes-
lions have arisen in the trial, particu-
larry affecting jurisdiction. The fol-
lowing facts were brought out
during the trial: Both parties 70
/ the action are young people OF
! Well-tO-dO familiss-be of Waterloo,
Ind, and a graduate Of Rush Medical
college and "a man of striking, almost
/ handsome appearance, bright, we'll ed
| uCated and with every evidence of
splendid rearing; she of Angola, Ind.
d beautiful charming, sweet and re-
| fined lady, highly educated and backed
/ by stacks of dispositions from the best
people of Indiana, including the pres
ent lieutenant governor and many
judges. lawyers and doctors. all teSti-
flying to her splendid moral worth and
( grand eXcellency as a good and pure
girl, faithful wife and true mother. On
June 81. 1897 after a brief college court
ship, the two were married. They then
went to Chicago. where they engaged
a fiat and began housekeeping, and he
opened up d doctors Office. Soon there
after trials began. She was a petted,
only daughter, who had been accus-
J toned to nothing but love and kind
ness. He soon proved to be crabbid,
quarrelsOme and possessed of an ut
terly uncomfortable temper, and added
to this the young wife learned for the
first time that her husband was con-
lirmed gambler. In November and
while the wife was in a delicate con-
ditiOn, things eliminated and she was
beaten by HIM, from the effects of
( which she was confined to her bed for
( almost two weeks. Her pIeadings in
his behalf prevented his arrest as d
/ wife heater. They made up, but the
/ unpleasantness made it necessary to
leave Chicago. They went back to In
. diana, ana there again the gambling
life was taken up and quarrels and
! beatings of the wife repeated. Efforts
/ were made TO conceal the troubles ana
/ the love of the wife for the husband
! / endured. On March 28 1898. before
| their child was born. he left for the
west to look up a location Arriving
at. Cedar City, Utah, he entered into
! a partnership with DIR. Middleton. and
their medical practiceWa most Iucra-
tive The babe was born at home and
after an unusually long time of intense
suffering on her part, the result of the
Chicago beating, the wife arose almost
from the grave with the responsibility
/ of motherhood upon her and no positive
knowledge of the whereabouts of her
husband, a long time having elapsed
without a letter from him, and in all
the time never a cent of money having
been sent her by him. She learned OF
his whereabouts and success, and wrote
for money. His answer was the filing
of d suit for divorce in the Iron county
court II could not be maintained there
and was dismissed. Friends of hers
{ at home. incenSed at her treat
ment. have since followed the
doctor, their means of attack being the
anonymous letter and have succeeded
in making life for. him a torment and
injuring his business. He left southern
Utah and came here and filed another
suit for divorce with the result that his
family secrets have been told in a court
of justice and to the public.
Judge Keenly Scathes Plaintiff.
After the whole Of yesterday spent il
argument Judge Johnson took the case
, under Amusement and this morning
Judge Johnson sprang a most startling
surprise, not in finding for the defend
ant in every issue, but in the afterclap
DHL-lltditL WIS lOuIl1 not 70 nave uE-
serted her husband, but that he de
serted her and she was given the di
! Vorce, custody of the child, SO a mont
: for the support of the child. costs, anC
} $500 attorney fees, and that in a mos
exhaustive review of the case in all o
its features, both of the legal ques-
tions and the facts developed. In re-
viewing the facts the Judge was mos
= delicate. and tender but at the same
time most keenly scathing of the plain
! tiff for his conduct and actions from
, beginning to end.
Rankest Kind of Perjury.
After passing upon the case, which
had been as EXPRESSED by the judge
most Painful duty another and NOR,
painful duty was pressing. The judge
was speaking in a low tone of voice, bu
most impressively. and the large audi
ence packing the house was breathless
p The court called attention to many al
/ legations of the plaintiff sworn to un
+ der oath by him in his pleadings which
: on the witness stand he admitted to b,
e false, but particularly to one paper Of
E fered in evidence, the complaint in the
! Iron county suit filed by plaintiff, thu
7 Verifica ton 10 which had been sworn 4
/ by plaintiff at Helper in this county
when he was al the time residing ant
3 since which time continuously he has
.s-esided in this county. In that verif
cation he swOre that he was then anC
/ for more than a year last past prio
thereto had been an actual and bona
! / fide resident Of Iron county. To tn
z mind of the court this was the ranlxes
kind of perjury and both plaintiff aGf
q his counsel GOT the mind of this. co7sr