The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-29
ANOTHER CHAPTER
IN MATHEWS CASE
Husband Is Now Suing Wife for
Property Which He Decided
TO Her.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES
MADE IN COMPLAINT
Divorce Action Brought by Mr..
Mathews Still Pending
in Court.

Another chapter was added to tho
already sensational domestic troubles
of Janet and Albert J. Mathews by the
filing in the Third district court, Satur.
day, of a suit by Mathews to recover
property alleged to have been obtained
by Mrs Mathews under durcss and by
fraud. The woman already is suing
Mathews for divorce, on the ground OF
extreme cruelty. Mathews, in his suit,
includes the juvenile court in sensa-
tiona charges he makes.
Mrs. Mathews, Mathews alleges, told
him that the juvenile court authorities,
who had declared two OF his children
by former wife and her son by for
mer husband incorrigiblc and placed
them with Captain William Wood, head
OF the Charity association, were going
10 seize all his property to support aud
educate the children and that Mrs.
Marsden, in whose care his two chill
turned over to Captain Wood as IN
corrigihles, was preparing to present
him with an exorbitant bill for the
keeping of the children. Mrs. Mathews
further falsely represented, he says,
that relatives were threatening TO instl-
tute suit to divide the property among
the children, and to escape these things
ated in lot 6. block 81, plat c, Salt
Lake City survey, to his wife.
Gives Deed to Wife.
This was on February u. 1906, Ma
thews asserts. and Mrs. Mathews con-
tinued her false representations along
this 6ne until April 6, 1906. when he
executed q deed of the rest of his prop
erty in LOT g. block II, plat A, to her,
but instead of delivering this deed he
locked il up in desk. The deed, be
alleges, was stolen and recorded by
Mrs. Mathews, July 10, the same year.
lie asks the court TO compel Mrs. Ma
Mathews charges that he was har-
assed and browbeaten by the juvenile
court authorities and prevailed upon TO
part with important papers, among
them a life insurance policy. He makes
no demands along this line. though.
Closely following the fling of the
divorce complaint by Mrs. Mathews.
was mistake, that her DAUGHTER had
SOUGHT an attorney and furnished him
with the information upon which the
extreme cruelty charges were based,
and that Mrs. Mathews herself, being
unable to read or write, knew nothing
Of what the complaint charged. a
reconciliation had been effected be-
divorce suit was TO be dropped, but
apparently none of this is the case,
Judging from Mathews's suit and the
TACT that he fled a demurrer TO his
wife S divorce complaint November Il.
Charges Of Wife.
The Mathewses were married De
cemher 81, 1903, according to Mrs.
Mathews's complaint, fled September
il, this years. Mrs. Mathews charged
that Mathews had heaped abuse upon
her, choked and beaten her and dragged
her about the house by Der hair,
pinched her arms until they were black
and blue and struck her across the
ears until he had impaired her hearing.
Going further, she alleged that he
had called her a d--d fool, hurled
lamps and other household articles at
her, threatened to kill her. cursed her
for using enough coal to keep herself
from suffering from exposure and cold,
and on one occasion kicked her all the
way from the garden into the house.
On another occasion Mathews cursed
her because she did not Immediately
drink from a glass of water she had
asked him to fetch her, she said. When
she afterward drank the water. she
said. she became deathlv i'll. In her
complaint she virtually alleged that she
believed Mathews attempted to poison
her. The climax OF his cruel acts oc-
CURED September -, 1908, she alleged,
when Mathews grabbed her by the
throat and choked her, then beat her
head against the wall, and when she
screamed, exclaimed:
'Yell, you ignorant old fool,'
Afterward he threw her out of the
house onto the doorsteps, on her head,
eho charged, producing hemorrhage
from which. she suffered for days.
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