The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-28
Well-KnOwn 0steopath Is Found
in Arrears on AlimOny
Payments.
GIVEN UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK
THIS MORNING TO PAY
Mrs. Elizabeth Snaith and Eli
zabeth KnOffIOch Granted
DEGREES.

DR.. Gustave 4. Gamble. osteopath,
was hailed before Judge Morses divi-
sion of the third district court Friday
afternoon 10 show cause why he should
not be found IN contempt for failure to
pay alimony for November to DR.. Mary
Gamble, from whom he was divorced in
Judge Armstrong; division of the same
court July II, this year. The ply
sician YVES given until 10 o'clock this
morning to make the payment, which is
overdue fourteen days.
DR.. Gamble gave as reasons for his
failure 10 pay the November allmony
that collections have been lighter this
month and expenses higher, but de,
clared that his secret marriage to Miss
Josephine Benson, patient, who fig
ured rather prominently in the case,
soon after the divorce, had not material
ly increased his expenses. Since Aug
ust. DR.. Gamble declared, he has paid
Mrs. Gamble No. ] 500, but through
out October his collections amounted to
only about S64. Another reason for his
shortage of money, he said. was due to
his paying off some pecuniary obliga-
tions that he assumed while Mrs. Gam
BILE No. ! was his wife.
Full Of Sensations.
DR.. Gamble filed suit for divorce, but
Mrs. Gamble secured the decree on an
answer and counter claim Both tho
complaint and counter claim made SEN
sational reading. but the proceedings
were stripped of all the sensationalism
by the dropping of these charges.
In his complaint. DR.. Gamble charged
cruel treatment covering period of ten
years. BY her fault finding and harsh
criticism of his business methods, DR.,
Gamble charged, Mrs Gamble kept him
awake at nights until he was compelled,
because of his breaking health, TO leave
her, November So 1907. Mrs. Gamble
was a woman of decidedly violent ten"
per. Dr. Gamble charged.
Mrs. Gamble filed answer, in which
she brought Miss Benson prominently
into the case. She said that in January
of 1907 Dr. Gamble became infatuated
with Miss Benson and, pretending to
administer medical treatment, remained
at his office with her until late in the
night. AT other times he pretended to
be at the Warm Springs reading room.
home, 747 North Second West street, it
was alleged. Mrs Gamble further
charged that DR.. Gamble sent Miss Ben.
son to Los Angeles osteopathic school
for instruction, and paid her expenses
there. On March 10, 1907, she alleged
DR.. Gamble and Miss Benson were
caught in each other S embrace at the
former S home.
Allegations Of Wife.
Mrs. Gamble also alleged desertior
IN November of 1907. aud charged Dr.
Gamble with taking with him when he
left Joint accounts amounting to Sl739
To defraud and cheat her. she alleged
he transferred most of his property to
his mother, Mrs. Sarah J. Waits. She
asked for $1,000 alimony, payable $l5C
month, and $500 attorney fees. DR.
Gamble replied to the answer and coun
ter claim, admitting that he had called
upon Miss Benson, but said that he had
only paid casual visits to her after max
ing calls upon other patients in the
neighborhood of her home.
Mrs. Gamble obtained the divorce
$3.50 alimony, payable in sums of So5
month, $3.50 attorney fees and costs
amounting TO $3.50. This was on July
Il, and a few weeks afterwards DR.
Gamble and Miss Benson quietly slipped
away to the southern part OF the state
and were married, keeping their union
q secret for few days.
Mrs. snaith Freed.
Elizabeth Suaith. an elderly woman
obtained Il divorce from James Snaith
whom she married in England III 1891
on the grounds of non-support. Snaith
she said, is now in the county Jail
charged with threatening to kin her
Strong drink was the cause of his dere.
hctness, she testified. Snaith lost hi:
Job at the Salt Lake City brewery on
account of excessive drinking. This
was Mrs. Snaith's second matrimonial
venture.
Elizabeth Knoffloch said that Adam
F. Knoffloch deserted her at Los An.
geles eleven years ago, and was grant,
ed a divorce by default of the defend.
earned her own living. she said The
marriage took place in 1869, forty years
ago.