Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23

until they were formally demanded, and
q further arrangement that If Nine.
Nordlca obtained her decree ~ divorce
and 5000 Of the S660OO the other side
would consent to release the scurlties
Jointly claimed.
Doeme says he domurred and indi-
Gated that ne wanted to fight the case,
but had no money To pay counsel fees,
Then IL was represented to him, he al
leges that he was impoverished, ana
that " he consented to the agreement
the other sido would pay his counsel fee
for him out NJ the $4,000.
Docmc confesscs that IN the papers he
rad admitted that he and Nine. Nordi-
ca had legal residence here, which
was not true, and be- denied some OF the
charges. but he did not present Wit
nesses whom he might have obtained
To- corroboratp his denials The testi-
mouy Of Nine. Nordica's secretary and
the laucr's valet was offered to sub
stautiatc the charges, hut neither's tes-
tiuony he sWcars was corroborated.
After poemc had gained his part of
thc S66 600 about $40 000), having full
filed the condition that he make, an
affidavit that the settlement OF thecivll
actions had nothing 20 do with the d.
yorer suit, he says he realized that he
had committed a wrongful act,
Then the ailidavits and other papers
alleging fraud and colluslon We're pre-
pared and laid before the court, togeth-
er with a certificate from Dr. Walker
to the effect that Doeme was not in a
condition to comprehend what he was
doing when he signed the papers.
Herr Doeme Is Nine. Nordica's Sec
ond husband. her first having been
Frederick A. Cover, "A wealthy electric
clan, whom she married I'm Paris, He
Is supposed to have lost his life while
attempting to cross the English Chan
mel i'm balloon,
The allegation that Nine, Nordica's
counsel brought four actions, tying up
all the defendants means, that his
counsel was paid or was to be paid
through her lawyers and that neither
marty had legal residence In the state
sum up the grounds for asking that the
decree be set aside.
1t is said the disclosure will be made
next Thursday, when the case VIII be
heard in the supreme court The. whole
story of the married life ofHMme.
Nordlca and Doeme aud all that II led
up to will be repeated.
The story IL known I'm its entirely to
several persons and II Is said TO resein-
bic I'm some ways the now famous
Dodge Morse case. In which Charles
Il. Dodge Is attempting to have set
aside the decree Of divorce his wife
obtained against him In order to separ-
ate her from Charles w Morse. n
banker. whom she subsequently mar
red,
II is alleged Mrs. Dodge's divorce
was obtained by C0lluslun
I'm the Nordlca- Doeme case, II Is said,
n greatly interested man Is capital-
ist well known IN this city, who lives
on the other side Of North river Who
has been n friend OF Nine. Noidlca
many years. II IS said also mat dds
man appeared I'm the case when II was
IN It's inception. At that time II was
limited a proposition was made by an
attorney to begin the action which
Doeme has begun now but the pro-
position was rejected by an attorney
Who was cognizant Of the connection Of
His, as yet unnamed man with The
case.
II Is alleged by persons who have
been connected with the case mat the
sopranos former husband, by his hints
md collision, placed Mime, Nordca in
n position where she win be free 70
mako tine whole truth public In her
own defense. II also is promised tine
faots, when known, win be even more
sensational than those IN the Dodge
MOrg' case,
Declaring that he eventually would
CHOW up Zoltan Doomc, Atty, Ed
ward Lauterb1ch today entered an in
dgnant denial OF the charges made
against him hv the former husband
Of Nine. Nordlca.
Docme stated In his petition for au
annulment Of the divorce decree that
Lauterbach induced him TO settle S.O
! ono unon Nine, Nordica Doeme Keeping
| 10000 and that for this settlement
he gave I.auterbach 500.
THE mans statements are untrue"
sald Mr. LaUtcrbnch my reputation
as a lawyer win snow whether | would
| boz guilty ~ what Dopme charges.
| When the case comes mp for hearing
ON April 81 ] shall show Just what that
transaction was