| Show T REFUSED TO SHAKE HAND OF PARSONS Given Cool ool Reception When Wife and Daughter Re Return Return turn From Europe SPENT SMALL FORTUNE BELIEF IN TELEPATHY DUE TO HIS UNHAPPINESS f Charles C Parsons who is being sued by his wife for maintenance testified in Judge rudge C W V Morses court yesterday that when he remarried his wife in 1901 It was not because ot any feeling ot of love whatever but was for fora a reconciliation which he thought would assure the happiness of his daughter Geneva Friction between the couple started with a request that Mrs Parsons and her daughter cur curtail taU their traveling in Europe and return to America During their trip in Eu Europe Europe rope their expenses amounted to 34 he said aid Mrs Parsons became In and as her Illness caused Increased expenses I wrote to thorn them to come home Instead they utterly disregarded my lily wishes in the matter and continued their trip into Italy I dId not have any feeling ot of love for my wife whatever when I remar TIed ned her In 1901 I wished only to have havea a reconciliation by which the happIness of my daughter would be assured AU All of the hostilities have been on the part of my wife and daughter I have al always always ways wished for peace and happiness Refused to Shake Hands Mr Parsons saId that when he hast hasten en eni f to meet his wife and daughter in after their r return turn from Eu Europe rope both women refused to shake hands with him When he asked the thereas reas reason n for his cold reception his wife ife saId We know what you have done since weve been gone We know these things by mental telepathy Nevo Neva has the power and so have you but I have not Neva has kept me informed about you The plaintiff claims that Mr Parsons threatened to have her placed in an in insane insane sane asylum after these remarks but thIs Is denIed by the defendant He claims aims that the only remark ever made along that line was a suggestion that Mrs Parsons go to some quiet town in California for her health The defendant says that the only word vord he received from his wife for some sometime sometime time durIng her stay in Europe after he had nad asked that she come home came in the form of requests for more mone money During the hearing letters were pro produced produced in which the was in informed informed formed of various love affairs and duels OVE over r his daughter Mr Parsons claims these to be untrue Mr lIr Parsons claims that his wife refused to live any place in Denver except at the Brown their bill bUl there for fourteen days being They refused to consider arrangements mide by him to live in apartments costing per month It is claimed by the defense that a month was al allowed allowed lowed the two women for their main maintenance maintenance Expressed Surprise While in Salt Lake he had an inter interview interview view with his daughter in which e told him of her knowledge of telepathy The daughter claims that in this Inter Interview view her father accused her mother of insanity Mr Parsons denies this and said that the only remark made upon the subject was his statement that he was surprIsed to find a girl of Intelli Intelligence genre gence sharing such belIefs Mr Parsons attributes all of hIs un to his ana daughters belief in telepathy The trip to Europe is also attributed as one of the causes of th the trouble Mr Parsons claims that prior to his trip to Europe his daughter seemed to love him but that three years association wIth the mother and the excitement associated with their journeys on the continent caused the realization by the daughter that he had powers in the telepathy wa way |
