The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-03


Mrs. Mary t. Jensen, barely out OF
her teens, told Judge Morse IN the d.
yorce matinee in his division of the
third district court Friday that vii
liam Il. Jensen had lavished the mu-
nificent sum OF $40 on her within the
past wear. and this only after proceed
ings for failure to provide fer 4 MINOR
child had been threatened.
Mrs. Jensen further told the court
that Jensen had not given her tins
amount all at one time. but had fru,
gallv split it up, giving her 81 ana
So at a time, TO make it go further,
presumably.
Although earning $3.50 and So day,
Jensen frequently went away on
drinking spree for week at time,
leaving no food or coal IN the mouse
and no money to buy either with. Mrs.
Jensen said. He also spent considera
BILE time with other women, and when
she demonstrated with him he told her
he had a right To go ont with other
women. Because she demonstrated with
him on the night of January % last
he drove her from the house and she
went back 10 her mother, she testl-
fed.
The girls mother, after corroborat-
ing all this. testified rs follows:
~ don u think he ever was or meant
10 he what you d call cruel to her, but
know that he went away for days
and nights at time frequently, leav-
ing no food nor coal in the house and
no money TO buy either. ~
Mrs. Jensen was granted a divorce,
the custody of the 15-months-old child
and SIS a month alimony. They were
married here June 9, 1906,
The three other divorces granted
lacked color. nonsupport being the main
allegations upon which the applicants
for membership in the divorce colony
relied.
Divorce on Insanity.
DIR. ". H. Calder, superintendent OF
The State Mental hospital at Provo,
testified that Joseph r. Matson, whom
Mrs, Mary c. Matson was suing for
divorce, is hopelessly insane, and the
desired divorce was granted, the de.
cree carrying with it the custody of
the four children. ranging in ages from
g to i years. Mrs. Matson was also
given the property. consisting of lot
and half and u house at l049 West
First South street, the $500 mortgage
on which she has raised, in addition
10 keeping up the taxes and making
5000 worth Of improvements
The couple was married here in
1893, Mrs Matson being unable to re-
adjudged ipsane by an insanity commits
sion before Judge William C. Hall in
:be third district court, November 2G,
1902. According to DR.. Calder's testi-
luoDy. he is growing weaker mentally
and his afflictlon is likely TO end in
dementia,
After eight years, Thomas +. Hop
llns got tired of providing for Martha
Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins said, aud quit.
in, iaI
here In June of 1892 and have three
children, ranging in ages from 8 to 10
years. Hopkins has failed to provide
for her the last eight years, Mrs, Hop
l>ins testified. With the divorce she
was granted the custody of the chill.
dren and costs.
Mrs. Estell J. Hempill said Robert
for the last twelve months, and she has
been compelled 10 work out and depend
upon her mother for n living. Right
now she is doing housework at Bingham
CANYON. Hempill is working as a ma
chinst at Milford. Mrs. Hampill s
mother corroborated this, and the di-
vorce was granted. The couple was
married at Great Bend, Kan, Novem-
Ter II, 1906
Clays Case Reopened.
The sensational separate maintenance
suit OF Della Clays against Nj. V. Clays
was reopened long enough to extend a
lien upon Clays's opera house at Bing-
ham. known as Canyon hall, to secure
payment of the separate maintenance,
$40 month, until Clays returns from
Nevada. The lien was entered with the
separate maintenance decree July ID,
1908. for a year, and expires July il,
this year.
Mrs. Clays originally charged Clays
with simple nonsupport, but Clays re-
tallated III an answer and n cross-com.
plant. IN which he said that Mrs. Claws
was frettul. nervous, extravagant, a
scold, and insanely jealous Of him,
while he was patient and forbeariEg,
She also charged him with infidelity,
and interfered with his business, he de.
clsred
Clays further sci up that Mrs. Clays
5enance proceedings against him three
times, including this last time. The
prior cases she had finally dismissed
but at his cost, he said. Mrs. Clays
replied denying one Of the actions.
The couple was married the last time
III this city on November %, 1902.
There was something the matter with
the service in the case Of Mrs. Lottie
Z. Buckley against Jone f. Buckley
and the hearing was continued. They
were married here July D, 1906. and
Mrs Buckley charged Buckley with non.
suDPOlI anu euOScqueHJ ueSeTtlOH, udI
ing from shortly after tho marriage
The failure 10 secure service upon
Buckley appeared to he due to the allie
CATION that he is leading double life
George Bnckle, Mrs Buck kley's at
torney, said that the sheriff had made
diligent efforts TO find Buckley, but
the service had ben returned unserved
Buckley, Mr.. Buckle said, is working il
some OF the mining camps aroung Salt
Lake City under an assumed name, and
this he attributed as the reason why
he can not he found,
Mrs Buckley also charges Buckley
with drunkenness. No mention is made
Of any children.
John Livingston, bartender at thu
Council bar, was ordered 10 pay Edit
Livingston SO i month temporary ali