The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-18
WHEN FIRES OF
LOVE BURN LOW
Three Wives and Two HuS-
bands Freed From Calling
Matrimony.
CHARGES ARE NUMEROUS
EIGHT YEARS OF CRUELTY THE
GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT.

Gambling, drunkenness, nOn-support,
cruelty and desertion on the part Of
inconsiderate husbands caused the
granting of divorces to three wives, and
deseTtion by wives resulted in divorces
TO two husbands in Judge Morse's di-
VOTce court yesterday.
After a year Of waiting Mrs. Maud
Richards was granted a divorce yester-
day from Albert 5. Richards The trou-
bies of the Richards couple began soon
after their marriage July Il, 1906, with
occasional reconciliations. Richards
principal faults lay in his fondness for
drink and gambling, which resulted in
the neglect and finally the desertion of
his wife and two children.
Eight years of cruelty was sufficient
cause for the granting of a divorce to
Mrs. Marie Goldberg. Her husband
john Goldberg, she testified, got drunk
with alarming frequency and on eaCsi
occasion abused and beat his wife and
children. On one occasion he beat her
almost TO insensibility with a bucket.
and on last Monday night struck her
with a lump of coal. The GOIdbergs
were m FRIED on June 9, 1897. and his
Intermittent cruelty began in 1901. They
have six small children. Mrs. Gold
berg was granted a divorce, the custody
OF the children and $50 a month for
their support.
The love of an actor is fleeing. ac-
cording to the testimony of Mrs. Lore
liza JOnassOn. Who received a divorce
rom Oscar l.. Iona ssOn. Mrs. Jonas
son Is young and pretty. She has had
TWO husbands and has been separated
from each in divorce court She was
married TO her actor husband i'm Og-
den, May 8, 1907. Not long after the
marriage he deserted her and has since
tailed TO contribute anything toward
her support.
John w. Barrett, a railroad conductor
was granted a divorce from his wife
on the showing that his wife. Flora C..
Barrett, has refused to live with him
since Dec. %, 1907, six months after
their marriage.
Joseph Smith and Ethel s. Smith
We're married in Boston on Sent.
1907, but lived together less than one
year. Mr.. Smith testified that DESPITE
ms pleading his wife left him on June
>, 1917, and has refused to live with him
since that time. He said that he had
given her no cause for leaving him. He
was granted a divorce.
One New Case.
Sensational charges of abuse are con-
tanned IN the complaint of William CuI-
wife. He charges that her conduct and
that OF her father toward him was in
tolerable and that he was forced to
leave her. Mrs. Sercomb in her answer
10 the complaint charges her husband
win deSertIOn and nOn-suppOrt and de-
MES the charges made by Sercomb. She
asks that he may be ordered to contri-
butte To the support of their child and
that he pay attorneys fees to her coun-
sci i'm defending the case.
The case came before the court yes
teFday ON the motion of Sercomb's at
torney TO strike out the charges in the
answer OF Mrs. SercOmb on the ground
that she is a resident of Boone county
Iowa, and not within the jurisdiction of
the court. A demurrer covering the
same ground was filed Both the mo
ton and the demurrer were dismissed
ana Sercomb was ordered to paw Sc q
week for the support of the child and to
pay $50 attorneys fees when the case
is set for trial