Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-27

,n threatens to run away. Turning
~ ho nc said. This thing Is enough
~ ,naNe any man run away"
| ~ was doing missionary work I'm
OenVer- My father was with me often
MI, l tried like all missionaries. 10
"a converts. lie agreed TO be baptiz-
| anu JOIN the church L Induced
:, I'm 10 go TO church with me once. but
II ended there"
| weIl?" support you
MI. Walling. support is not every
ihs money Is not everything. 1
,s'iuer the desertion of my mother.
e oesertlon OF myself We talked
what oi q homo in America And
Mhas sort OF home did he give us
IN the past-he would put us In a
,oine, and then he would proceed TO
tueeert IT. she said warmly. "I
enousht father wanted divorce
'oIh the moment OF the re-marriage.
l remember he said before myself
s s,nu hOther would you not like to
g. ulVorce? l was never intended
LOT married life He said II was q
burden and Imprisonment
My memory is not very good on
nsures and dates. Mr.. WallIng," she
Pio'estcd after narrowing cross
u'estionlng on financial matters. "and
u you Kept this up all day you would
SCI nothing satisfactory out OF mel
appeal to the court"
NEVER SPEAKS TO FATHER.
MY father wrote. demanding our
return to America. At one time he
sad we had staid away so long the
raw would give him divorce, on the
ground OF desertion. | have never
SPOKEN TO father since June, 1905. In
one of his letters he said he had
spent $4,000 In educating me: and
ne then wrote that | should prepare
Hyseii to earn my own living While
we were in Paris he wrote mother.
IL you get a divorce. that Will be
another chapter in our romance"
FATHER ON THE STAND.
Charles C. Parsons, the father. look
ing worried. anxious and careworn.
took the stand. In contrast to the
somber Sarb worn by wife and daugh-
ter, he had on a light business suit He
proved q good witness, with his uuiet.
deliberate manner of giving his an
swers. He said the re-marriage took
place In Denver. March %. 1901 "The
marriage was not at my request" he
said emphatically. Previous to that
event he had lived at the Athletic
club there some five years.
ihiS marriage was agreed upon
suddenly. and the ceremony took place
tnat night. To avoid publicity and
reduce expenses we moved from the
Brown Palace to Colorado Springs,
wnere we stayed several months We
spent our evenings together and In the
DAYS walked about together our re-
iauons apparently pleasant. In rela-
tlon TO our quarrelling until o'clock
In the morning l Will state deliberate
r I'll lnt
IN Denver. but would run down every
saturday night, and often stay over
until Monday. 1 wanted to permit
my daughter to go to Europe to COM
plete her education. At this time 1
cleared up $4,000 on some New York
pump stock, and $4,000 in q Salt Lake
mining deal. and SO arranged for a
second trip to Europe. l secured
transportation, gave them $500 cash
and a letter of credit for $4,000. This
was In June, 1901, when they left The
following January. 1 was shocked to
got word that they must have another
letter of credit. 1 wondered how they
could have spent so much money But
sent another letter of credit for 81, ,000
THOUGHT 1T FOOLISH PRIDE.
THE letters received in relation to
the great amount OF masculine admir-
alton that Neva was attracting I at
tributed to a sort of foolish pride on
the part of the mother.
Il finally protested against these
heavy and continuous demands for
large sums of money, stating that they |
would drive me into bankruptcy. In |
fact, here at this trial for the first |
time 1 have learned of the number of |
teachers that Neva has been having. |
In December. 1902. 1 went to Lon |
don hiIQinaSc l
did not know where they were, but |
ascertained the fact from the bank |
ers. My business deal kept me there |
Tor some time, and l tried to induce |
them to come to me. The only ex-
cuse seemed to be the dampness in tho |
London air WAS obnoxious to them, SO
finally Joined them at Geneva, where
we spent three weeks together.
"Everything was as pleasant as pie."
he said. and continued up to the depart
ure later for America. Soon after his
arrival home cablcgrams announcing
the operation for appendicitis and
demands for money began to fly from
Europe to America. He sent them
another $1,000. After the recovery of
Mrs. Parsons he endcavored to induce
them to return home. saying he did
not like to have an ocean between
them. II did not demand, I only
tried to persuade them to return" he
said.
I'm regard to the cable saying an
estate was coming from grandma, l
did not believe. it."
The case will be continued Friday
morning. with Mr.. Parsons on the Wit
ness stand.
CUTLER'S $3.50 SUIT SALE,
All next week. SO Main Street.