Show TRIAL MARRIAGE CAUSES CUTTING I R F Simmons Decides to Go His Own Way and Suffers WOMAN USES A BIG KNIFE QUIET SEPARATION PROVED ANYTHING BUT PEACEFUL Flourishing a bowie knife and threatening to kill her common law hus husband bend band b nd if he tried to leave her Helen Sim Simmons Simmons j mons created a II panic near Dear her home U 11 UL L street at noon yesterday and cam cami mar n ar finishing the career of R B F Sim with whom she has been living 4 for f r two years It was only the hasty flight of Simmons that saved his hla life Ufe for the woman was wag fighting with desperation when she saw she could hold him no longer The man bears be b ms ars a wound on his hit right arm ann near th thi wrist He appeared in the county attorneys office late yesterday afternoon and told his story to Assistant County Attorney John Juhn M 11 Bowman asking that a com corn complaint complaint plaint t b 3 issued charging the woman with assault with a deadly weapon It is probable probable probable able the complaint will be issued today The rhe woman was placed under arrest late mate mateIn in the afternoon According to Simmons he did not sue sus suspect there would be b any trouble on the part of the woman He admits he is an atheist and does not have much sympathy sympathy sympathy thy with civil law marriages He told the t county c attorney that he and Mrs Simmons Simmon had entered a contract two years ago to live Uve as man and wife but had hadnot hadnot hadnot not gone through the formality of being married legally lea legs Ily IlyThe The rhe two lived together without much trouble Simmons said Hid but he grew tired of his hit bargain a few weeks go and in intimated Intimated intimated several that he be was going to leave Under this system the divorce does not have to be appealed to for forthe forthe forthe the purpose of untying marital knots that have been galling but all that is needed is quiet separation Quiet iet Separation Both seemed to fl that the quiet sepa separation separation separation ration plan was all right It had been bt en agreed between them two years ago ac according according according cording to Simmons that when either be became became became came tired of the other there was to be bea bea a separation with no hard hanl feelings It was accepted by both of them and in inserted Insert insert sert d in the marriage contract between them Nothing appeared to disturb di the prepa preparations preparations preparations rations for a separation until just ju t before Simmons left the house at noon yesterday During the tha morning the woman washed some of his clothes and helped Simmons in getting ready read for his hit departure She appeared as eager as he to break tn thi contract though Simmons says there was no trouble or quarrel on either side skis When everything was packed Simmons started to take his trunk from the home hom homAnd And then according to Simmons the woman grew as alii angry as a tigress and declared she would not let him go She bhe he insisted upon his remaining with her as asher asber asher her ber husband Simmons still insisted that he was in the right and continued to pull uIL the trunk toward the door Then the wife grabbed a large bowie knife from the table and made several lunges at Sim Simmons Simmons Simmons mons declaring she would kill kUl him One On of the th blows met flesh fie h and the right arm of Simmons was laid open from the wrist nearly to the elbow He finally escaped and called Dr G M I Benedict who closed close the gash with seven stitches Simmons and the woman are each about abou 40 ro years ears old Simmons is a boilermaker r employed in the Rio Grande shops It is understood that the woman will file charges against Simmons in the county attorneys office charging him with bat battery battery battory tery tory upon her er |