Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
BABY SAVES LIFE
Of ITS MOTHER
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Unusual Story Told In Divorce
Court by Mile
Vance.
THREW CHILD AT ITS FATHER
Startling Recital of Marital Woe by
Roy wager at Regular Friday
Matinee.

The regular weekly divorce matinee
held before Judge c. w. Morse yes
terday. while lasting an hour and a
half, WAS not devoid of stories of heart
interest. told chiefly by deserted and
ill-treated wives, Among the applI-
cants for divorce DEGREES, was one
woman who testified that her baby had
been the means of saving her life from
the murderous attack of her brutal and
drunken husband, who only ceased to
choke her when he kneeled on the
baby and it began crying.
Another unusual case of cruelty. this
time on the part of a wife. was pa
thetically told by a deserted husband,
who said that the partner of his erst-
while joys and SORROWS picked up their
baby and threw it across the room, tell
ing the father to take the child.
The attendance in the court room
was quite large, and as the heartrend-I
ing tales of wronged women and man
We're told, the silence in the courtroom
was tense.
The first case to occupy the attention
of the court was that of Carrie M.
Tatowsky against Henry Tatowsky, ac-
cused of failure to provide. The young
Wife went TO the witness stand with her
baby in her arms-an infant of 20
months. She testified that her hus-
band left her last August. without a
cent in the house and nothing whatever
for the support of herself and baby. She
said she had been compelled to seek
the parental abode for support.
DECREE is GRANTED.
The mother Of Mrs. Tatowsky COR
roborated the story OF her daughter,
ta1 "a n
gether with the custody of the child and
the interest of the couple In house
at West Temple and Tenth South
street which they We're buying on the
installment plan, to the amount of
$500. which had been paid upon the
residence.
Mile Vance was the next applicant
for severance of matrimonial bonds.
She told the court that her husband,
David A. Vance. had been extremely
cruel to her during the last
year or two, so much SO that
upon one occasion. when he
came home drunk in the middle Of
the night, he went over to the bed
where she lay with the baby, and af-
ter threatening her life, began to choke
her The woman began to struggle
and in the struggle the man kneeled on
the :nfant, which Immediately set up n
attributes her life on that occasion.
as her husband desisted from choking
her when the baby started crying.
Again upon one occasion. when her
father lay dying. her husband came
into the room in an intoxicated condi-
tior and began to abuse her, and al
so to abuse her dying father. After
the death of her father. the plaintiff
testified, Vance entered their home
and abused her and the baby, so that
she feared for her life. Defendant
deserted her last April and she has not
heard from him since.
The testimony OF Mrs. Vance was
corroborated by her brother. j. Kill
patrick, who said he had known his
brother in law to go home in the mid
de of the night in an intoxicated con-
dition, and order his wife to get out of
bed ami cook supper for him.
The court awarded the woman a de-
cree of divorce together with the Gus,
5tody Of the child.
THREW BABY AT HIM.
Roy Wager testified that his wife,
Maragiet A. wager. left his bed and
board soon after their marriage last