Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-24
BRIEF MARRIED
LIFE EXPENSIVE
SAYSDEFENDAIIT
Answer Filed by Albert @.
Shawver to Divorce Com.
plant Legality Of Mar
riage Questioned.
Forty-e eight hours Of happiness cos
Albert o. Shawver Just $3.50.


Forty eight hours Of Happiness cost
Albert o. Shawver Just $3.50.
y In his answer to Martha Shawvers
plea for divorce. he denies the legal
ity Of the marriage. declares that he
gave her a total Of 1880, and admits
that he lived with her but % hours
after the ceremony had been perform
ed in Salt Lake and they had returned
to their home in Boise, 1106M Main
street.
Through Karl Paine, his attorney, he
declares the marriage was never legal
on the grounds that she had been d.
vorced but few days before and that
they left this state in order to escape
the law that requires an interval OF
six months before divorced persons
may marry again.
While the state law recognizes that
a marriage which is legal in another
state is legal in Idaho. 1t does not con-
template, according to the defendant
that persons shall cross the state lines
in order to avoid the laws existing
within the Jurisdiction Of the state
courts.
Another fine point in state law IL
raised as to whether the defendant
eficiary and grant all Of his property
both real and personal. to that heil
and whether or not such an absolute
gift could ever be revoked at any
time.
Property Decided to Son.
The defendant claims that he gave
his property absolutely to his son
that the deed was made in perfect
good faith, that he now has no prop.
erty Of any kind and that he could pay
no alimony were a divorce granted tc
the plaintiff. He alleges that such q
gift is irrevocable, that 1t is a com.
plete grant of property, and that 1,
has left him penniless and without re-
sources of any sort but his own labor
The plaintiff claims that such a ster
is merely an effort to avoid alimon,
and makes the son a defendant to the
action by an amended complain,
which was filed yesterday. The plain.
tiff also claims that the defendant had
before the gift. $500 worth Of prop.
erty. They were married in Salt Lake
Sept. 23 of this year.
Extreme Cruelty Charged.
Charges of extreme cruelty and the
constant use Of vile and profane Ian.
guage procured divorce for F'reds
Bowling from Era Bowling in Judg,
McCarthy's court yesterday afternoon
While the complaint made many allie
cations that are unprintable, the plain.
tiff only offered in evidence proof o.
the defendants cruelty to her on Jul.
4 and 1S of last year while in Bots,
and on several occasions while the,
were on visits in Nevada
She was granted, together with tn,
| decree of divorce, an order for $25 4
month alimony and the custody of Lee
ona Bowling, the child horn Sept. 1S
| 1911. The plaintiff alleges in her com
plant that they were married May 6
! 1910, when she was but Is years o
age. that he has failed to provide he
| with the common necessities of life
that he was guilty Of intemperance ant
of extreme cruelty, and that he wa
not true to his marriage vows nor I,
her.
| She says he left her on July "a, 1911
while she was III and Just before tn
birth of the child, that he was gone 70
three days on this one trip. that Will
they were in Nevada at q hotel h.
left her unprotected from drunken min
ers who frequently entered her room
against her will and against whom sh
! was unable to protect herself, that OF
one occasion he took q revolver to be,
with him while on another he placed
| sharp pointed knife under his pillow
and threatened to kill her, and di,
many other things that caused he
great suffering and mental anguish.
She mentions seven or eight in
stances In particular where he faile,
to keep his marriage vows. she say,
and charges him with infidelity Of
these occasions
| Because Of his default, she only Of
cred in proof the charges Of N
cruelty and the use OF profane Ian
guage toward her.