The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-29
SEARCH FOR TITLED
HUSBAND EXPENSIVE
Mr., Parsons Says His Daugh-
tcr'S Hunt Cost Him AL
most $4,000.
SPENT $4,000 ON HER
AND WIFE IN SEVEN YEARS
Didn't Remarry for Love, but
Never Suggested That Wife
Enter Asylum.

\ detailed statement of the moneys
expended by Mrs. Jennie i. Parsons
and her daughter. Neva, in their trip
abroad was introduced in evidence by
Charles C. Parsons in the divorce action
between them in Judge Morsc's court
Friday afternoon, showing that the
search for n titled husband for Miss
Parsons cost her father between SIS
900 and $4,000. This was at the rate
Of $4,000 year. After all this lavish
expenditure of money by Mr., Parsons,
he told the court, when his wife and
daughter returned 10 Denver from their
tour of Europe they refused 10 have
anything 10 do with him aud at once
charged him wiih immoral conduct in
their absence. using as Il basis Of their
charge the fact that they had received
tclegrapbic messages telling them OF
ms conduct.
Mr. Parsons, in his examination Fri
day, also gave detailed statement of
tho money he had given bis wife and
daughter ever since the rcpaTriagc III
Denver in 1901. From that year 10
and including The wear 1905, he said,
ne had gwen them S3l405.14 for their
arose between Them in Denver, shortly
after ihe return Of the wife and daugb-
ter from Europe. he said he was Civ
ing them $3.50 month and also nj
lowed them credit at different stores
which amounted to $I3l in the year
1905.
Didn't Rcmarry for Love.
Mr., Parsons denied that he ever made
the statement that he could or would
get q divorce from Mrs Parsons on the
ground of insanity because of her be.
turn 10 Denver. he SAID. his daughter
told him that her mother came hack
from Europe with the fixed intention
Of living apart from him.
On cross-cxamination Nh Parsons ad-
mittcd that he did not rcmarry his
wife on account of love for her, but
solely oD account of his daughter I'm
der the circumstances. he declared that
he could not have any very great love
for his wife. He deuied, however. that |
nc ever even iutimated that hc wanted |
her 10 90 10 sanitarium for the in
sang in California. Mr. Parsons was
stall under cross s-eXamIna tion when |
court adjourned for the day.
Ordered Ont of Room.
W. II. Robinson Of Denver, who was |
in the employ of Mr.. Parsons during |
the trouble between husband and wife |
testified that he was Sent by Mr.. Par |
sons To make arrangements for his wife
and daughter 70 remove from the !
Brown Palace hotel in Denver 10 an
othcr hotel where the expenses would |
he lighter aud that when he called on |
Mrs Parsons and informed her of her |
husband s desire in that matter both |
she and her daughter were highly in.
dIgnant and declared that they would |
not remove tn any hotel suggested by
Mr. Parsons. The witness said that no
censurcd them for their action in that
matter and they practically ordered him
out of the room.
In The morning session of court Mr..
Parsons told of the frequent demands
for money he received from his wife
while she was abroad and Of the letters
telling Of the alleged duels between
Gabriel j Annnnzio and the Count of
Turin over his daughter. He said that
he made a thorough investigation of
the d 'Annunzio affair and learned that
at The time ne was supposed to have
been fighting the duel AS related by
Mrs Parsons he was in Rome rehears-
ing one of his new PLAYS.
Mr. Parsons declared that he was
thoroughly convinced of the falsitv of
the statements made by his wife in
that respect and that il worried him 10
think that Mrs. Parsons would view
with conplacenry, even in her imap-
nation. an affair with a man Of the
reputation of D 'Annunzio. After learn
ing OF that incident he wrote af once
and urged wife and daughter to return
to America. From that time on his
one desire was TO get them back on this
side of the Atlantic.
The case will be on trial again Mon
day.