The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-07
SPIRITS FIGURE
IN DIVORCE CASE.
Mrs. Elizabeth WbeeIwfight
Wants Decree AnnuITed.
HUSBAND HAS REMARKED
FORMER WIFE SEEKS TO HAVE
CEREMONY DECLARED VOID.

Claiming that her husband w r.
Wheelwright. secured d divorce from
her last March by coercion and on
complaint which contained untrue ale
cations, Mrs. Elizabeth Wheelwright
Is seeking 10 have the decree set aside
Fnd Wheelwrights marriage TO Miss
Louise Blackford OF salt Lake, whom
nc welded Wednesday, Nov. % in this
city annulled. Mrs. Wheelwright the
first has retained counsel for the pur-
pose Of bringing action. She declares
she viii take steps also to prevent her
husband and his bride going through
the Mormon temple.
Mrs. Wheelwright. besides charging
Wheelwright with plotting her divorce
In order that he might marry a young
er woman. asserts that he deceived her
In business matters relating to the sale
OF their ranch a Wilson near Ogden.
a feature Of the case is the fact that
Mrs Wheelwright, on theGidvice of her
husband, who is a spiriIualist. consult
ed medium in ogden only a few
weeks before proceedings were begun
by Wheelwright and learned that
money which belonged to her was
gcing south to a dark woman, who
would break up the home" Mrs.
Wheelwright the second answers the
description as far as complexion is
concerned
Mrs. Wheelwright has the guardian
ship of five minor children and has
supported them since her husbands
separation on the rent receipts of three
small houses in Ogden. Lately she has
been compelled to help exc out an ex-
istence for the family by doing day
work. Two married children. says Mrs
Wheelwright, both residing i'm Ogden.
have declared their allegiance to the
mother and have signified their inten-
tiOn of doing all in their power to help
her have the second marriage set aside
as void.
Divorced Wife's Story.
Mrs. Wheelwright's story follows:
The decree of divorce which my
husband obtained from me March p
was secured largely through represent
Rtions, made to my older children. that
unless the proceedings were unOppOsed
by me he would be subject to imprison-
ment. He said that if / could obtain
a divorce everything would be all
right; proceedings would be dropped
This other woman in the case he had
sent out of the state, he claimed.
With this understanding my chill
dren urged me not to oppose the di-
vorce. One of them, James, took the
stand at the hearing of the case before
Judge H. II. ROlapp and testified in be-
half of his father. I did not attend
the trial / was heart sick, but my son
afterward told me that lac had simply
stated / had made threats to take my
life. Well do not deny it. once at
tempted 10 take my life. 1t was about
"a year ago and my mind had been SO
upset by the differences which arose in
the family that the grave looked
sweeter than life.
The ground for divorce was violent
temper. The charge is false, as L can
prove. There was absolutely no ground
for divorce. for I had lived a true.
faithful wife and a good mother TWEEN
ty-fve years.
Thinks There Was Plot
Indeed as I look back. 1 can see
that the whole thing was plotted. Only
the night before he commenced pro-
ceedings we were walking home from
church when my husband said 10 me.
Do YOU remember the ground on which
George Holmstead obtained a divorce
from his wife,?
II told him il was for violent temper.
\ few minutes later l related TO him
that the spiritualist whom he had ad-
vised me TO see told me a dark woman
south OF ogden was 20 get money
which belonged TO me and would wreck
the home I told him 7 hoped nothing
like that would ever happen.
o.. II 1t does ] added. III follow you
and her 10 the end Of the earth 70 get
vengeance. At that time / did not
t-rforr- Thor c1yob q uprE0D rs Miss
Blackford. whom ne afterward mar
upon my making this remark, turned
60 me and said oh, you would. would
y0u2 Wen I guess that's violent lem
per all right
The next morning / asked him 10
forgive the words which had passed.
asked him to kiss me and forget what
We had said. But he simply denied my
request. That morning he. said grace
AT be table the same as he had foI
years He went up town and ] didn't
see him again until Monday, when he
had obtained the decree.
Meets Bride-to-Be.
# could not bear to see home nor
the man who had been my husband
after that so TWO weeks later I moved
tO-Salt Lake. Ii was only few weeks
ago that ] learned my husband was ln-
tending 20 marry Miss BlacIford.
went To- see her and laid before her the
facts. She stated in the presence OF
her mother myself and my daughter
that she was sorry she had not learned
nr he circumstances before.
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