The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-13
WIFE, RIOT DOINGS
IRE TOLD Nv COURT
BIZ abused HUSBAND
George kenke Was Repeatedly Requested to Seek ConsOa
ton in Hades When He ReprOached his Swifter
HaIf-The Divorce Matinee.

Judge Armstrong and an interested au-
dience listened at the regular Friday di-
vorce court matinee to several sad tales,
to the accompaniment of lutes in which
the rift was decided and pronounced and
sweet bells very badly tangled out of
tune. These who had promised to love,
honor and obey until death did them part
quite cheerfully accepted Judge Arm
strongs decree as the substitute for the
aforesaid grim reaper.
Ethel d. Miner was granted an
absolute divorce from Guy NJ. Miner;
Sarah May Wisner from Joseph Smith
Wisner, and ANNA Levin from Herlief Lee
vim. In each of the above cases the wo-
man was the plaintiff and the defendant
was satisfied to escape by default. Her
left was in Copenhagen but he had writ
ten a letter to the effect that he was go
ing to stay there. The other defendants
We're simply elsewhere.
The only man to appear as a COM
plaintant was George Klenke, whose vivid
statement of the reasons why he wished
10 be separated from Emma X hlenke
took up most of the three-quarter hour
session. He was granted an absolute di-
YOrce,
Kooyman Can't Pay.
The regular divorce drama was preceded
by a one-act curtain raiser in which gen
tleman, one Of whose names is Cornelius
KoOyman, told how poor he was and why
he couldn't produce Tor the DeneHt OF
Paternella KOOyman. little spice was
added to the cross-queStiOning of the at
torney for Mrs Kooyman because in the
sum Mr.. KOOyman is shy is involved the
attorneys bill. Mr.. KoOyman was on
vacation from the police court jail, where
he lit last night after mental hiatus
caused by drinking too much root Deer
His troubles matrimonial and otherwise
have been frequently and recently aired.
Nothing that happened in the court yes
teTday would suggest that there was any
error in the police court story of yester
n uv0iph O q
unit described him as a victim of brain
storm. The crOss-Questoning attorney
found out that he had been working sew
erai places under assumed names. And
doing it to dodge the cross-questoner's
fees. He would not admit to lodging ali
mony, which made an embarrassing mo-
ment in the cTOss-QuestiOning. Judge
Armstrong could find no great evidence
of present or past solvency and let him
so back to the police station.
Two in Ten Minutes.
Sarah May Wisner, a tall, well dressed
woman of perhaps s., who wore an elab-
crate gold watch and pendant and dia-
mOnd sunburst, was the first witness
against her husband, Joseph Smith Wis
ner. She has been married since the first
of October, 1900. She has two children,
Myrtle, aged T. and Helen, aged g. Her
husband. she testified is strong and able
bodied He left on September Is, 1906. She
says she has not lived with him since
January %. 1906. Decree granted; time
seven minutes.
It took Ethel D. Miner only two and
One-half minutes TO eliminate Guy NJ.
Miner from her existence She was a
pretty. well dressed, very young woman,
with a clean cut profile and a decided
method of discourse. She was married on
the 18th of December 1903. He was an
electrical engineer but he left her Janu-
airy l, 1907. She was compelled to seek
employment and live with her mother,
Mrs. Augusta Dean, who also testified
10 those facts. Decree granted.
Prefers Copenhagen.
ANNA Levin had some trouble getting
on the docket as il was feared at first
that she had not complied with the sixty
day clause, but it was Strengthened out
and she is now free from Helef Ditto
Mrs. Levin is a Dane and told her story
in broken English of the Heine brand
She was married on the 9Th of April, 1905
The period of domestic bliss was not as
certained exactly, but she stated that Mr.
Levin had not contributed for two years
and that during that time she had been
washing floors and things. When asked