The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-30
PARSONS CASE IS
TO Be REOPENED|
Wife Says She Cannot Properly
Support Herself on 1925
a Month.
SHE ACCORDINGLY ASKS
AN ADVANCE TO 5000
Sensational Action Is Again to
Be Threshed Over in
Court.

Mrs. Jennie 2. Parsons s noted sepa.
rate maintenance case against Charles
C. Parsons. Samuel Newhouse's gem
eral counselor, is TO be reopened, Mrs.
Parsons says she can't get along on
1925 month, which was awarded her
for her separate maintenance IN Judge
Morse s division of the third district
court January last, but must have
5000 month. and she has made ap-
plication TO the third district court
for an increase of the aiimony TO that
amount. The hearing upon the appli-
cation has been set for 2 o clock Satur-
dav afternoon before Judge Morse.
III health is advanced as the prin-
cipal reason for more alimonY. For
the last five years, Mrs Parsons sets
out. she has been subpect TO the high
altitude of Utah and Colorado, and in
that time her general health has been
impaired TO such an extent that il is
necessary for her to make a change
She is dependent entirely for her sup
port and maintenance upon the S125
month alimony, having 10 separate
income or property of her own. and to
make the proposed change for her
health she must have more alimony-
she says. Otherwise she can't make
the change. Anyway, she sets forth,
$125 month ism Il sufficient TO main.
tain her in a manner befitting her po-
sition,
Were Twice Married.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parsons have been
twice married to each other. The first
marriage took place at St Louis, No.
vember 10, 1850, but they could not
get along, and Mrs. Parsons brought
suit for divorce in California in 1898.
Mr.. Parsons, however, secured the di.
vorce upon a countcrclaim. For the
sake of the daughter the couple re.
married at Denver, January %, 1901.
Mrs. Parsons began her suit for sepa-
rate maintenance here late last year.
In her complaint Mrs. Parsons
charged that Mr.. Parsons, soon after
their remarriage, began TO show signs
of dissatisfaction, evincing surly moods
and a bad disposition. Eventually he
declared that a family was 4 source OF
trouble and burden to him and they
should not have remarked. she alleged.
On July q, 1904, after her return.
with her daughter, from Europe. he
called upon her at the Brown Palace
hotel III Denver, but instead of pro-
yldlng home for her, as she antici-
pated he would do, he left her there
and threatened to run away from her
vide for her befitting her station, she
SAID, and what he did give to her he
termed charity, which he might with.
hold or extend at his pleasure.
Mrs. Parsons said Mr.. Parsons pos
sessed an income and earning capacity
of $1,000 month and placed his wealth
at half million. and demanded $1,000
attorney fees and $500 a month sepa-
rate maintenance.
Answer Of Parsons
Mr. Parsons answered setting up
that Mrs. Parsons did not marry him
for love; that she had never done any.
thing for his welfare or comfort, but
that she married him solely as a means
oil securing money and for the purpose
OF attaining her own selfish enjoyment.
lie further set out that he Lad OBJ
tanned no pleasure out of his married
life and alleged that he had spent S40.-s
200 upon Mrs. Parsons aud his daughter
since 1900. II cost him $4,000 to
educate his daughter, he said, and She
should be able TO take care Of herself.
It cost him $3.50 a day TO maintain
Mrs; Parsons at the Brown Palace
hotel at Denver, he alleged.
Cruelty was another ALLEGATION
against Mrs. Parsons, it being charged I
that she had falsely accused him of in
hdehty and adultery. this before the
daughter. Outside of foolish and ma
llclous extravaganza, Mr.. Parsons ex-
onerated Mrs; Parsons of any improper
conduct while abroad educating The
daughter. Mr.. Parsons set up that his
net monthly income was not above
S20o and that he was heavily indebted
ana not worth more than $4,000 or
i3'o00 above his debts, and asked that
Mrs. Parsons s complaint be dismissed
and that he be granted a divorce.