The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-01
MARRIED TO
AN0THER'S WIFE
Henry Eilers Charges Mrs. EiIers
With Fraud.
THREATENED TO KILL HIM
SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS IN
A DIVORCE SUIT.

After twenty years Of married life,
Henry Eilers. the well known Phoebe
saloonkeeper. claims that he has
learned that the woman he married as
Annie Ghetto is not that person at all.
but her real name is Young and that
she was a married and undivOrced
woman. The alleged fraud practieed
upon Eilers is one of a series of start
ling defenses pleaded by him why he,
and not his wife, ought to secure the
divorce which Mrs. Eilers sued for in
the district court Of this city on Oct IA
Eilers' revelations were made yester-
day in his answer and cross-complaint
FLED in the district court by his coun-
sell F. r. McNamee ana George H.
Smith. After specifically denying
every allegation OF his wife that he had
subjected her to extremely cruel treat
ment eliminating in an assault upon
her, and accusing her of immoral con-
duct at the family home on Capitol
avenue, south Of this city, last July,
Eilers sets up that he has provided
amply for the support Of his wife and
three children, according to his means
The defendant admits the marriage on
Oct. 25 1881, but at once he charges
that his wife at that time and cOntin
uOusly since has frauduently repre-
scented to him that her maiden nam
was Annie Ghetto, when in fact her
name was Young, given name IN
known. Eilers further alleges that h
wife also deceived him by pretending
that she was unmarried when she
married him, but in truth she was
married to a man unknown to him
and has never been divorced from her
first husband. In his answer and cross
complaint, Eilers declares that these
revelations did not come to him unfit
Oct. Is of this year, the day before his
wife sued him for divorce. a1imony.
the homestead, $500 for attorneys fees
and the custody of the children.
Other allegations recited in Eilers'
plea are that his wife has been guilty
of cruelty toward him, amounting 70
baTbarous conduct, in that on June 70
Of this year, in this city. she assaulted
and threatened to kill him and falsely
accused him of having maintained i'm
proper relations with other woman:
and again, on Oct. 1. falsely and ma
Hc;cusly accused him of taking lib
critics with his own daughters: and
LOT the further purpose Of making his
life miserable and intolerable, by
falsely accusing him Of having had
carnal knowledge of his sister.
According TO the defendants cross
complaint, Mrs. Eilers has such an
nsanely Jealous disposition that she
will not permit him to speak to other
women and has constantly accused
him falsely of having maintained il
hcit relations with them. She has. it
is further charged insulted lady
friends and neighbors when they have
called at the family home on Capitol
avenue.
Eilers pleads that his wife is a poor
housekeeper and that she is coarse.
brutal and untruthful, and teaches the
children to disrespect him. and. there
fore, she is unfit to have the custody
OF them, whereas he is sober, indus
trious. honest. truthful, refined, moral
and intellectual, and hence ought to
be awarded the care and custody of
the three minors.
For two years. Eilers AYERS, he has
implOred his wife to return to Phoebe
to live, but she has steadily refused
TO comply with his requests He fur
Their declares that he is not so wealthy
as the plaintiff alleges. because of his
illness from asthma, which has become
chronic on account Of his wife's neg
lect of him.