Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-09-07
Some Sensational Domestic Affairs
Of Caribel Rancher.
WANTS WIFE AND RANCH BACK
Also Asks for Sum Of $15,OOO for
Alternating Spouse's Affections.

An affidavit and motion has Just
been fled in divorce case which was
heard at the last term of the District
Court of this county, which will GER
tainly develope some very sensational
matters if the facts alleged in said
affidavit can be sustained by the
evidence.
The title to the case is Nettie F.
Hamilton vs. William s. Hamilton.
The parties lived near Caribel, in this
county, about FIVE miles north east of
kamiah.
Two suits were also filed on the
same day by Hamilton, one in which
he asks that deed and bill of sale,
which he executed to Nettie f. Hamil-
ton, on January 8 be set aside and
the other for sic, 1000 damages for the
alienation of his wife's affections by
Edgar Snowman, an adjoiuing ram
cher.
The affidavit and motion is by the
defendant, with w. H. Casady and f.
M. Griffith as his attorneys, and is to
set aside and vacate the decree of
divorce, which awarded to the plain
tiff all the community property of the
parties, said to be worth more than
so, 900 and the custody of their three
children. The divorce was obtained
on the Biblical ground Of adultery,
alleged to have been committed by the
defendant with sister of the plaintiff.
The defendant in his affidavit denies
the alleged adultery and sets up con-
spriacy between the plaintiff and one
Edgar Snowman, with whom the plain
tiff remarked within a few days after
she obtained her divorce and one j.
w. Parker, a brother-in-law who is
married to sister of the plaintiff.
He alleges that they conspired to-
gether to accuse him of adultery with
another sister of the plaintiff and with
slander and libel and did not SO tbrea-
ten him with both civil and criminal
prosecutions and threatened him with
a suit for damages IN a large sum of
money, for said offences If he did not
turn over his property to his wife.
Among other things Hamilton in his
complaint alleges:
That atlantis said wife began i'm
mediately to urge afiiant to turn over
to her all Of his property, to save the
same from being squandered and vast
ed in litigation, and cried and begged
and plead with afliant to SO turn over
to her his said property and go away
to some other state, until said troubles
and said scandal should blow over or
until she would come to affiant wher-
ever he might be.
That on or about the 4th day of
January, 1911, the said Snowman
came to the home of affiant and urged
afiant to so comply with the said re-
quest of atlantis wife and turn over to
her atlantis property and 60 away to
some other state until said troubles
, and scandal blowed over or until
atlantis said wife could sell and dis
pose Of said property and come to
: affiant wherever he might be, and said
Snowman argued with affiaDt and urg-
!. ed him, that it would be best for affi-
: ant and for his family that affiant SO
8 comply with the request and plan OF
! atlantis said wife and thus save
q affiants said property from being
!. squandered in litigation and his family
d from disgrace and scandal, and argued
! that if said Parker should be killed OF
e his property destroyed by fire or i
is anything should happen to him affian
IS would be blamed for it and that j
!. would be hard for affiant to exhon
.s crate himself from the charge, ant
d gave many other reasons why it woul'
be best for affiant to so turn over hi
property to his wife and 90 away =
some other state until said trouble
:, and scandal should blow over.
III That on Sunday, the first day Q
n, January. 1911, the said wife Of affian
er took afiant upstairs in their hom'
OF away from their family, and there r
as newed her coaxing and begging an
rn pleading with afiiant and again erie
,h- little over their troubles and agal
ne there urged afiiant to comply with b
he request and plan to save their proper
ew from being wasted and squandered
the Parker litigation and plead W