The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-27
MARITAL TROUBLES
REC|TED IN COURT
Judge c. w. Morse Grants Two
Divorces and Holds
Others Over.
CRIPPLE DEFENDS SELF
WOMAN ADMITS DAUGHTER APP.
FEARED IN TIGHTS ON STAGE.

Only one divorce was granted by
Judge c. w. Morse yesterday afternoon,
and the mill worked sluggishly through
out the session. In the morning Judge
Morse granted one decree, making only
two for the day.
In the morning Mary E. Angel re-
ceived a decree separating her from Al
bert F. Angel, and separating Albert
from household furniture valued at $500,
and 1920 in real money, which is to be
paid to the wife in Jumps of $35 each
month until it runs out. The household
goods and the money is alimony, and
the attorney of Mrs Angel will receive
$50. The Angels were married in Salt
Lake on July 16, 1887.
Seth johnson filed his suit for divorce
yesterday afternoon, and soon after
ward received a decree, as the result of
the desertion of his wife, Tessie, last
October. They were married on May Is,
1907. in Salt Lake. The wife left and is
now living in Kanab.
Lulu Sparks appeared in court with a
chunky little baby, mostly hidden in
knit jumpers. She married Henry
Sparks, a machinist at the Boston Con-
sOlidated sInelter, here on May s, 1880,
and has started suit for divorce. Judge
Morse made an order yesterday that
Sparks is to pay his wife s25 a month as
temporary alimOny until the divorce
case is tried. Both husband and wife
live in Garfield.
Colin f. Stokes, a cripple, who lives
at 1149 Milton avenue, appeared in court
to defend himself against the divorce
action of his wife, Hannah Louisa
Stokes. They were married here on June
Is, 1883, and have three children. Stokes
explained to the court that he did not
have money with which to engage an
attorney, and will handle his case him
self. Mrs. Stokes said she had obtained
employment for her husband several
times, but that he had refused to keep
them, and had spent the money he
earned for intOXicants. She said she
had supported him most of the time for
the last three years.
Declares He Worked.
Stokes claimed that he had done all
of the rough work in the Walker bank
building. where his wife is janitress,
but she denied this, with the exception
of one month during the summer. when
she said she was resting. The case was
postponed for a week.
Ella NJ. Rounds did not satisfy Judge
Morse that her husband, William S.
Rounds, had refused to provide for her,
and the case was continued for another
week for further evidence. They were
married in Buffalo, n. Y, on October %,
1905.
Ellen p Williams is suing Miles L.
Williams for a divorce, and Judge Morse
granted a temporary alimony of $3.50
a week until the case is fully tried. They
were married on June rs. 1907, and Mrs.
Williams says her husband drove her
out of their home at 2355 Fifth East
street on July 10, 1909
That she allowed her daughter, IL
years old. to appear as Sapho in tights
with a company travelling through the
southern part of the state, was the adj
mission of Pauline Baker, who is suing
J. A. Baker for a divorce. Baker came
back in an answer and cross-cOmpI plant,
in which he charged his wife with many
indiscretiOns, and asks the court to have
the custody of his two youngest chill
dren given to him. They have three
children: Rena, aged Il; Nina, aged 16,
and Leroy, aged 4. Mrs. Baker said the
crOss-complaint is ''defamatOry and
libelOus," and struck at her fair name
and those of her daughters. She said
Rena was not with a "strolling" troupe,
but that they were actors" She ad-
mitted Rena played the part of SaphO
at one time. and appeared in tights on
the stage. She said, however, that she
never smoked cigarettes or allowed her
daughters to smoke them. She also de-
MED that Nina or Rena had ever come
home drunk. The case was continued
until next Friday