Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-23
BOECk DIVORCE
CASE IS APPEALED
Prominent Physician Car
ries Case to Supreme
Court of the State.

Probably one OF the most sensational
divorce cases that has been appealed
to the supreme court in years MADE
its appearance yesterday in that vof l..
Warden Boeck versus John Boeck,
both residents of Boise, for many
years prominent in professional and
business life of this city. The appeal
is from the judgment entered in the
Third judicial district court for Ada
county, Judge Charles P. Mccarthy
presiding. who granted the prayer OF
Mrs. Boeck and severed the bonds
of matrimony. as we'll as gave her
large share of the community prop
orty, and her maiden name, Louise
Wardell.
For many years DR.. and Mrs. Boeck
have made Boise their home and the
launching OF their domestic affairs into
the courts came as n general surprise.
They were both doctors of medicine,
practicing Jointly. The suit for sepa :
ration instituted by Mrs. Boeck was
tried before Judge Mccarthy and oc-
cupied an unusually long time for a
case of this kind. The evidence sub
mitted was detailed covering period
of months, during which Mrs. Boeck
alleged she had been treated with
cruelty and suffered bodily injury The
transcript of appeal is in three vol
umcs of over 140O pages.
Mrs. Boeck Given Property.
The papers filed with the supreme
court show the decree of divorce OF
Judge McCarty not only allows Mrs
Boeck separation, but she is awarded
what is known as the "Office building
If the Boecks in this city, all personal
property, notes. stocks, bonds or Sc
curtios DR.. Boeck is allowed the
balance of the community property
subject to the payment of $1,000 to the
plai.tiff, and all personal property II
his own name.
Mrs l3oeck rccites in her complaint
that she was i'll when the differences
between her husband and herself start
ed and that she went first to Rochester
Mimi. for an operation and was too
weak to undergo one and then went t(
Los Angeles, Cal She charges tina
while there DR.. Boeck caused her grea
mental anguish through alleged bick'
erings and his charges that she want
cd to remain there and his refusal tt
send her expense money. DR.. Boecl
has four children by a prior marriage
and she alleged that she had always
treated them as a mother but while
she was in California, her husband re
fused to allow tho children to write
to her.
After she returned to Boise, Mrs
Roeck alleges in her complaint, tina
the inhuman treatment offered by he
husband before WIS repeated. She
charges this conduct became bestial
that he wanted her to leave and oil
one occasion said: "The quicker yo'
get out and go away from here tn
better it will please me"
Humiliation Is Alleged.
Efforts on the part of her HUSBAND
to humiliate her we're frequent. Mrs
Boeck sets forth in her application TO
separation. She declares therein tina
he cid so by going to merchants an
notifying them not to charge account
and at ono time he said, 1T seem
that YOU like my haTd-earned none
all right. as YOU make me pay tn
bills at the stores" She asserts tina
when she returned from California sh
found her husband had collected man
of her professional accounts. He ais
threatened her, she says. TO have thei
troubles spread in big type" in tn
newspapers. She alleges he said h
wanted her to start something a
he would enjoy it. At another tim
she alleges he declared that she want
ed to see him dead and remarked whe
he made this accusation, II will NAL,
YOU look at my face from this time oil
for If am obliged to live in h, yo