Weekly journal-miner., 1922-01-18
BABY DOLLS IN |. K|DDER'S $ LIFE,
 WIFE ALLEGES
Accused of Desertion, Evelyn Kiddler Asserts H. H. Kidder Sought Other Company and Usually Failed to Support Her.
lFrom Fridav,s Dal1vl

IT TOul Eludy DdiiyJ
 Baby dolls, sprightly companions who contrasted with his wife, "an old woman, a homely woman," were prominent in testimony of Mrs. Eve lyn Kidder in her attempt yesterday to resist the divorce suit of her for mer husband, H. H. Kidder. After brief but spirited hearing, Judge Richard Lamson awarded a divorce on Mr. Kidder's complaint charging desertion.
 Mrs. Kidder, who had answered the suit with a croSs-complaint charging failure to support, indicated during her brief stay in the witness chair that the desertion charged, il any, was not of the passive kind; she did not just go away. She waxed impatient at her husbands actions and one morning advised him in such unmistakable terms to go away and never came back that 'he got his clothes packed and hauled away be- fore the store opened at o'clock. v
 Mrs. Kidder is a shrewd business woman, according to admissions made by the plaintiff. So, three witnesses from Prescott, who were designed l by the cross-complaint's counsel Howard Cornick and Percy Glib born, to support her word, were ex- cused and not questioned. When the couple met Mrs. Kidder was operat- ing a rooming house at Deming. Mir Kidder celebrated the first eight weeks of married life by being con- tinually intoxicated, the witness said He removed to Los Angeles on some oil job and never thereafter worked very continuously. The plaintiff did not support Mrs. Kidder to any great extent, she said. Later she operated little school supplies store at Phoe- nix, where her husband gave way to his admiration for younger women The witness related an alleged incl dent at a hotel where the husbands sympathy for a sick woman Miss McLane," was such that she gave him "a nasty smile" when he came in one morning for breakfast, and two days later instructed him about his belongings.
 Sisters divided on the issue of the Kidders. Mrs. Emma Wallace, sis ter of Mrs. Kidder, testified in be- half of Mir. Kidder that the wife had repeatedly said she would never live with him again. Mrs. Mary Dodson, another sister, testifying by means of a deposition, supported her sister with some slight evidence of her un- happy marital life.
 After Mrs Kidder had dismissed her husband, she maintained a suit for separate support and later relin- quished 1t when she became self sup porting as she is at this time, with Cortez street restaurant. Mir. Kid der, she said, once visited her and asked her to give up her rights to this periodic money, as he could find any number of "baby dolls" to put up the money, but that to them this disposition of it must necessarily prove embarrassing. She declined to consider the feelings of the dolls" she said
 When the evidence had been taken, Neil C. Clark, counsel for Mir. Kid der, offered to submit the case with out argument and Mir. Cornick agreed, but asked leave to make statement This was granted, the plaintiff reserving the right to meet any statement of Mir. Cornick. At the conclusion of brief summary of the evils that grow up over long