East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-06-14
LOVE LAYS BLAME
TO W|FE'S Mother
BAKER SEES OPENING
OF BIG DIVORCE TRIAL
Husband Tells of Presents to Wife
and Charges Bad Habits-Tells Of
Married Life In England and the
Care of the Child.

Baker, Or, June 14.-Sidney c.
Love placed the blame for the trou-
bles that have arisen between him
and his wife upon his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Francis Burnes, in the hearing
before Referee c. p. Murphy, in the
Love divorce trial yesterday. He
said that they were friendly even aft
er they moved TO England after his
failure as u broker. He admitted
that there had been minor differences
but that they had assumed no serious
significance until late in the summer
of 1909, wnen her mother had had an
opportunity To destroy this condition.
This testimony was strenuous-ly OBJ
jected To by Benjamin Tuska. Mrs.
Loves New York counsel.
Mrs. Love sat by the side of her
attorneys and frequently directed
them to object to some or the testi-
mony and made other objections. She
was cool and collected and at times
looked at the plaintiff as he was CIV
ing his testimony, with elevated
brows. Mrs. Burnes, Mrs. Loves
mother, was nervous and her syes
sparkled at times when Love refer
red to her in his testimony. Mrs.
Mary Madison Love, the plaintiffs
mother, and Miss Elizabeth Love, his
sister, were interested spectators. The
plaintiff showed strong emotion as
he told of the refusal of his wife and
mother-in-law to permit him to see
the child, and he described his feel
Tn rha., g..I l,,. h..y, lNnt Ia
was the cause Of the child's illness.
After a hard tilt between opposing
| counsel, Love was permitted to read
the contents of a memorandum of the
letter he wrote Mrs. Love from Lon
don, where he had gone to engage
passage for himself and his wife and
child to America:
Il wrote Marjorie" the memoran-
DUN reads, land told her that l re-
| fused longer to live in her mothers
house. | had called to see her three
times and would call again, and ask
ed her to meet me with the child in
her arms or | would leave with the
child in my arms"
At the last visit, Love testified, he
told Mrs. Love that If she would get
up in the morning and nurse the child
instead of lying abed and smoking
cigarettes until after lunch, she would
be in a better position to criticise him
| and blame him for the ch.ld's i'll
health.
Love told about the gifts he had
made his wife, as follows: a $1,000
| coat $4,000 in jewels in IA months
and $4,000 in cash just before he
broke in business.
a ripple of laughter swept over
the courtroom when Love, on being
| questioned as to his relations with
the Burnes family before the mar
rage, said that he had known the
| family for 10 or IL years, and added,
| apparently as an after-thought, that
! he had been engaged at one time to
Mrs. Elizabeth Byram, an aunt of his
| wife
His voice choked with sobs and his
| face showing the depth of his emo
ton, sydney Love told of his efforts
! to assist the nurse in caring for the
| child Muriel while on cross-eXamina-
| tion. which began at 1880 this morn
| ing Attorney Tuska for Mrs. Love-
| made a hard effort to establish Loves
residence in New York. He attempt
ed to show that defendant voted there
| for Taft in 1908, Love asserting that
he was a democrat and would not
have voted for Taft any way He also
testified that Mrs. Marjorie Burnes
Love wrote his mother a letter, stat
| ing that she was of no use to him
and wondering why Sidney did not
| trade her for a yellow dog"