Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-24
MARRIAGES THAT
WERE FAILURES
Seamy Side Of Matrimonial Bliss
Is Exposed in the Divorce
Court.
TALES OF UNREoUITEO LOVE.
Plain aud Fancy Recltals or Several
Men and a Pew Women Who Dis
regarded Thcir Obligations.

fn melodamauc voice. Mrs Louise
Hellbere. young woman of tragic
type. intense and melancholy described
I'm divorce matinee yesterday afternoon
how her husband. charles A. HoilberE-
tfe villain-rattlcd money in hia
rockets while she was left without
enough 20 eat n looks could have as-
eassinated Hollbcr1. hc would have
been killed Off 90 The first act. As e
was Judge Morse saved him when he
rang down Tho curtain on their domes
tfc troubles by ordering him 60 nav
Ser $40 a week for the support az her
tclf and children, until the suit for d.
v0rce was heard.
For weeks Hollberg and his wife have
lived apart. The only contention Is for
the custody of their two children. Min
mic years old. and Claude4 years old
Until yesterday the children had been
held by their father lie released them
and took them home 10 their mother
when he was served with en- order 20
show cause.
When Mrs HollberF met her husband
on Main street and Second South
streets several days ago. she asked
him about the children He declared
he began TO rattle his money. telling
her he had Sl15 10 fight the case or
leave the city carrying OF the children
with him.
Mrs Hollberg had only 30 cents to her
name at this time. There was no flour
in The house no coal and only a few
potatoes and some bread. She had been
washing for two days in order TO gain
a livelihood. She underwent an opera
tlon recently and was not In a physical
condition to work so hard
Hollberg was examined as to his abil-
ity to furnish his wife and children
with the necessaries Of life He earns
SIS a week at the Crabtree Produce
Company as a clerk He was ordered
10 pay $40 Of this each week TO his
wife.
Mrs. Hollberg said that the furniture
company had also threatened TO come
and carry her furniture away because
Hollberg is behind in his payments.
Hollberg's attorney declared that his
client would see that the furniture
would not be taken away.
HAD A MEAN DISPOSITION.
After William Knadle has threatened
10 kill her and himself IN the same
manner his brother had exterminated
his family, Mrs. Clara Knadle decided
that II was about time to leave him.
Her testimony was corrobOTated by her
eldest daughter, Mnble. n years OLD,
and Judge Morse granted her a divorce.
She was awarded the custody OF her
four children and $50 a month alimony
10 support them
According 10 her testimony Knadle
was a constant drinker and had been
cruel 10 her and his children. He
threatened 70 exter1ninate the entire
family about six months ago, 40 Mrs
Knadle packed up her things, took her
children to Idaho and remained there
for two months. Knadles brother ia a
AZ OF insanity, killed his wife and then
shot himself Fearing that Knadle
would carry out his threats Mrs. Kna-
die worried herself sick until she suf-
fered an attack OF nervous prostrati0n
from which she Is now recovering They
wore married on Nov p, 1855 IN Lin
coin. Neb. and have four children
Miss Kate Brockleban1 testified ia the
cruel acts OF her brother. George Broc-
klehank toward his WIFE Mrs Esther
Brocklebank, who was granted a d.
vOrce
IF It hadn't been for me-" she said.
George would have chOlSed his wife 70
death on one occasion. I went In the
house just In time to pull him Off Thcn
] saved the life Of his 10-year-old ION