The Nome nugget., 1927-11-26
TALLER DIVORCE
 PROCEEDINGS
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ing a mans cheeks"
 T grabbed his necktie with one hand and scratched with the oth- er," she said. He had me down, but when he tried to loosen my grip I would scratch him with my fingernails. Well, he was old, and was young. and finally got him down on the floor and held him down. I wouldn't let him up.'
 Net Haller First In 1914, Says
 The quarrel started, sho testified. when Haller, weary of listening to her complaints that the old Haller ''bleak house" was too big. too cold and too lonely, picked up book sat down and ignored her lecture by reading.
 T had always been taught, judge, that it was impolite for man to read book and ignore woman while she was talking" she explain ed. "So I walked over, took the book out of his hand and made him listen."
 Mrs. Haller said she met Haller in 1914.
 Objected To lag Of Candy He
 Bought Her
 I'd always heard about the dashing Teddy Haller. How hand some and how rich he was, and how many trips he could make to Europe-and how devilish the . handsome Teddy Haller was.
 50 begged mother to call him by telephone.
 "Then, as he always said, when he first saw me at the Perry Hotel, where he was stopping, he looked at me like this, and said 'Whe-e-e!
 'I turned to mother and said: Good Lord. mother, where did you get it-look what the cat drag ged in!''
 He and mother talked of old times, when they were young and I didn't like him. His stockings and necktie didn't match. You see, I was young and objected to the bag of candy he brought me-" Says Haller Was ''POrt In a storm"
 Livingston B. Stedman, lifelong friend of the Reed and Haller fam lilies, attorney for Haller, asked her when she was born. Mrs. Haller replied indignantly, Well, you hot hon do ho. sides, woman does not have to tell how old she is.'' On advice of her attorney, Arthur Griffin. Mrs. Haller said she knew nothing other than what her mother told her that she was born in 1894 in the old Reed home in Seattle, on Be- ren avenue, two blocks from the Haller mansion.
 She said tha she accepted Haller's attentions in 1915 because at the time there was no other beau. It was case of any port in a storm" she added, turning to Judge Ron aid.
 Tt was like pulling te.th to get Theo to shave or change his col- lars, or take bath. or wash his hair. see he's got very nice shave today.
 T had been taught that i. was perfectly all right for woman to come to the table in a kim)ao or a negligee, but not for men. oh- Jected to his tying a handkerchief around his neck when he came to the table,"
 T object! object" interposed Haller's attorney.
 Whats the matter. MT. Sted- man?" Mrs Haller smiled sweetly. You wear handkerchief to the table, too?"
 Mrs. Haller asks s250 month alimony and an equitable division of Haller's one-third ownership in the $2.000.000 Granville O. Haller estae and in Haller's own reputed fortune of s50O,O00.
 Mark Reed, state legislator and former speaker of the house, Mrs. Haller's uncle, was in the court room. Her nationally famous fath- CT, Thomas M. Reed, Federal judge of the Alaskan Territory. notified Mrs. Haller's attorney. Arthur Grif- fin. that court duties precluded his attendance.
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