The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-07
He Now Comes to the Front
With a Demand for a Legal
Separation.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS
MADE AGAINST HIS WIFE
Once He Had to Hold Her on
the Floor. and She
Bit Him.

r. +. Estes has fled an answer and
counter claim in the divorce suit
brought against him by his wife,
Iranda Spafford Estes. He denies that
on any occasion he called her vile or
vulgar names. as alleged, or that he
ever slapped her on the face and threw
her to the ground. He did not call
her vile names and cast aspersions on
her character, he says.
On the contrary, he alleges that his
wife treated him in cruel and in
human manner, calling him all sorts
of vile names, without provocation, and
falling into passion and curslng
him because he refused to transfer
To her the house he owns at $40 Third
South street, as well as his life lnsur~
snce, which was in the name of his
son, a cripple, about 10 years old. and
wholly dependent upon him.
He further states that in pursuit OF
his vocation as a railroad engineer he
in his absence Mrs. Estes is particular
ly anxious to visit Liberty park,
but has always refused to go there
with him when he is at home, When
he inquired the reason he was told by
her in a passionate and angry manner
that she didn t "give a damn y for the
defendants; that he was nothing to her,
anyway, and that she would go to the
park whenever she pleased, and 1T was
none of the defendant 8 business who
she went there to see or what time Of
the night she came home.
During the summer of 1906 plaintiff
told him that she meant to have n
good time, and that even if he did
have the nelghbors watch her she
would have her gentlemen friends
visit the marital domIcile at late hours
of the night. that she would have
them leave before the neighbors were
awake.
On January ] last, Estes says, she
called his attention TO a particular man
at dance at Springville. whom she
said she was engaged to marry before
she married defendant, and said she
intended to 90 out and have a good
time with him. and that she hated and
dcspiscd the ground defendant walked
on. For n period of two weeks after
this she continued In a rage and pas
sion toward him: frequently striking
him in the face without provocation
On May II last, he says she as
saulted him with a pair of shears, and
he narrowly escaped serious injury. She
afterward sprang upon HIM and choked
him, and he was compelled in self
defense to place her upon the floor
ana HoId ner. during Whlch time Sho
bit the defendant in the left side so
severely that he still feels the soreness.
AT all times, he claims, he has
treated her properly and affectionats
ly, but ever since his refusal to make
over the property she has repeatedly
struck him in the face and about the
body; has stated many times that she
despised and hated him, and threatened
his life, She has used such low and
vulgar language that it would be i'm
practicable to repeat it, he says. She
also has stated that she only married
him for the purpose of acquiring his
property and then descrting him.
AS a result Of this treatment life
with her has become intoerable and
impossible, he asserts. He asks, there
fore, that her complaint be dismissed
and that he be granted a divorce