The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-29
NO DEGREES At
FRIDAY MATINEE
Big Slump in Divorce Business
Evident in Third Dis
trict Court.
ORDERS TO SHOW CAUSE
OCCUPY TINE OF COIIRT
Lone Husband Makes Third Tr,
for Separation, hut With.
out Result.

Judge Morse s regular divorce NATL
nee Friday afternoon failed to prodnce
n single divorce. There was but
one applicant for decree aud the
entire matinee, with one exception
was given over to hearings on orders
10 show cause and the like The slltmn
in divorces is directly traceable to the
Few law requiring Divorces to wait a
year before rcmarrying.
John w. Barrett, a Denver & Rio
Grandc brakeman, made third AL
tempt to secure n divorce from Fora
G, Barrett, and failed. tbe court takinp
the case under adviscmcnt for rho
third time, Heretofore the trouble has
been as TO the default of Mrs. Barrett
but Barrett. Friday, produced waiyerl
of all of Mrs. Barrett S rights. He
Then proceeded TO give additional fcs.
tlmony as TO Mrs. Barrctt's conduct.
at the conclusion Of which the court
ook the matter under advisemeni.
Barrett testified that Mrs. Barrott7
Was fault finder and showed litt!s7
or no satisfaction with ANYTHING he
dId To please her. Six or sight moutbs
ago he furnished her with Il return
ticket 10 Denver, that she might en-
JOY sort of pleasure trip. but when
she got 10 Denver she didn Z sto3
Barrett sad. Instead She went Oh 10
Columbus Grove, O., her old home, aud
basn Z returned yet.
One OF Barrett : allegations against
Mrs. Barrett is thai when his work ON
the railroad kept him out late at nigh.
Mrs. Barrett accused him of Infdelity..|
Smithson Mist Pay.
Anna Smithson, an attractive Iru.
nctte. who lives at 1Gl EasT Se.ouI
South street. and is employed in q
local millinery establishment at S6 n
week. secured an orGcr 70: tho paw
ment or 50 a month temporary ali
mony from Charles Smijhson. 4 saloon
heePer at Milford. Beaver county.
whom she charges with Wrapping hcri
up IN n blanket and trying to burn
her alive. Mrs Smithson was also
given $50 attorney fees and the order
restraining SmIthson from drawing any
money out Of the bank or disposing of
any of his property was modified TO
permit him to draw $25 month for
his own needs and $50 to pay his
lawyer
The couple were married at Los An
geles, November 2s last When Smith
son choked and beat and attempted to
burn her alive in March. Mrs, Smith
son left him and came 10 Salt Lake
City, she said, Smithsou is said to
be worth 10000
Petty Is Discharged.
Albert G. Petty. whom Clara E. s.
Petty has had presented for alleged
failure to pay permanent alimony in
the sum Of $3.50 a month was dis
charged upon his showing that he had
paid Mrs. Petty S53 since March II,
when the divorce and aIimony wore
granted. Thirty dollars of this was
for Mrs. Petty's court costs, although
the decree carried no costs with IL,
so the court cautioned Petty not to
concern himself with paying Mrs.
Pctty,s lawyer, but rather with seeing
that the three year old daughter is
properly provided for
Hyrum q, Sandberg was ordered To
pay Alice o. Sandberg S5 a week tcm-
porary alimony, aud $25 attorney fees
within forty.ive days. The couple was
married here June To- 1907. There is
Que child. twelve months old. Mrs.
Sandberg is seeking a divorce and the
custody Of the child on the grounds of
nopsupporr and subsequent desertion.
Sandbcrg had already been paying
Mrs. Sandbcrg - week by agreement
and readily consented 10 give her 81
additional