Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-15
Husband Says Wife Tried to
Warm Them on His
Back.
THEN THE TROUBLE STARTED
Told Hubble" Any Man Who Mould
Not Let Wife Warm "Tootsies"
Ought to be strung Up

Principal ID. y. Nelson OF the jackson
school had his turn in the divorce pro-
ceedings brought against him by his
wife. Clella McCready Nelson, today
in Judge Armstrong; courtroom. Prof.
Nelson made general denial of the
statements OF cruelty made by his
wife yesterday while on the witness
stand and minated that the trouble
between them was due more to his
wife's inclination TO have him run
around after her subject to her beck
and call on the least little thing and
also to her mothers interference than
to any conduct on his part He init
mated that had her mother kept out Of
| their domestic affairs all would have
| been happiness between them instead
| of the matter eliminating in the d.
| Norce court.
| Most of the morning session was
| taken up in the examination OF FIVE
other witnesses for the defendant w.
| f. Spiers, telephone man, testified
about the trouble with Mrs Nelson
| over the placing of a telephone in the
house. His testimony showed that Mrs
Nelson did not tell her husband the
exact truth about the telephone diff
Guilty told by her yesterday Miss
| Olive Ferris and Mrs. Rose Storer
| teachers IN the city schools. both testi-
| fed that Mrs. Nelson had told them
about how happy she was on their
| honeymoon. They told her that Mr.
| Nelson was good principal, TO which
| she replied: IF he is az good a prin-
cipal as he is husband. you can md
none better"
Miss Jane Cutler testified that she
saw Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson in a store
| utter their return from their wedding
| "trip and that they seemed very happy
and Mrs. Nelson was simply "beaming"
with happiness.
NELSON TELLS HIS STORY.
Mr.. Nelson was then called to the
| stand and related his story. He said
| that he WAS engaged to his wife about
three years before their marriage and
| during that time he had some slight
| differences with her. He denied that
| he treated her crully on their wedding
| trip and also denied that he had dis
| sipate while in La Graude, Or. AS to
the incident in that city as testified to
| by Mrs. Nelson yesterday. he said thai
| he played game OF freeze out with
| "a man in La Grande and bought
| bottle of whisky which Mrs. Nelson I'M
| mediately appropriated and put In their
! grip and brought home with them.
| While they We're in Oregon he said that
| his wife wrote TO her mother and told
| her how happy she had been. He de-
MED that he called her CRATER while
| they We're on their wedding tour.
After their return they went to live
| with her parents. The defendant then
explained the incident about the plano,
| In which she said that he called her a
liar. His version of it is that he asked
her about the piano and If she owned
IT, and she gave him an evasive answer.
He had found out that she did not own
II and was somewhat disappointed az
he had figured on IL for furnishing up
their parlor He said that he did not
call her liar on that OCCASION
WHY HE WENT TO HOTEL.
He testified that the reason he LEFT
the McCready house on Sept. "A was be-
cause Mrs. McCready had interfered
when he and his wife were having
discussion about who should be invited
TO their party. Mrs. McCready, he said
came into the room and interfered and
he turned to her and told her that IL
he could not advise his wife without her
interfering he would leave the house.
He then packed his grips and went to
the Wilson hotel.
Three times that evening he said that
he telephoned TO his wife and asked her
10 come to the hotel but she refused 10
come unless he went after her. He H.
nally took carriage and went to the
house but she was not ready aud in
formed him that she had good home
with her father and mother and intend
ed staying there. The next day his wife
brought his lunch to him and they
talked the matter over and she then
went out to look for another house.
Mrs. NcCready wanted them TO come
back to her home but Nelson told her
that she could not set his wife away
from him.
STORY OF COLD FEET.
Mr.. Nelson caused sensation In
court when lie explained the reason for
leaving his wife in bed alone and GO
ing 10 another room to sleep. He stated
that he had gone TO bed and got the
bed warm while his wife attended TO
some duties in the kitchen. When
she came to bed her feet We're very cold
and she put them on his back 10 warm
them, whereupOn he simply removed
them. She then made the remark that
any man who would not let his wife
warm her feet on his back when they
were as cold ns hers should be strung
up. Witness then told his wife that II
that was the way she felt about Il lie
would 60 some other place to sleep. He
then went into another room and took
the covers with him. The explanation
Of this AFFAIR caused Mrs, Nelson 10
burg her face IN her hands and tho
spectators present 10 nearly collapse.
Soon after this incident the court took O
recess until > o'clock when Mr.. Nell
sons direct examination viii he con-
cluded,
Al the afternoon session yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs. McCready testified Ia be-
half OF their daughter and stated that
Nelson was always complaining about
something and was gru1 20 all OF them.
He was also Indifferent 20 his wife on
one occasion Mrs McCready said that
he called her liar and an 'old has"