Show LEMP DIVORCE SUIT BEING TRIED t 1 k B BEFORE FORE FASHIONABLE GATHERING II t t St Lous Louis Feb 8 The divorce suits which Lillian Handlan Lemp and her husband William K Ii Lemp jr son of the millionaire brewer filed against each other came caine to trial in the St SL StLouis Louis circuit court today before Judge Hitchcock The case has attracted wide attention and when the proceedings began a largo large audience of ot fashionably attired men and women was present pro ent Tho Tim sut for divorce for alimony and for custody of J G 0 Lemp III HI was filed flied by Mrs Lemp but immediately there thereafter the thereafter after Mr temp Lemp tiled filed a cross orOS bill also alo asking for divorce and the custody ot of the tho child Mrs Irs Lemp temp asks no stipulated sum In alimony Slip She says S her Iler husband fo Is I worth J and has haB an Income of a year and she ahe asks Bels enough to te support herself and her child comfort comfortably comfortably ably Mrs Lemp First Witness Mrs Lemp temp was the first witness Site e told how temp Lemp beat her in the bath bathroom bathroom bathroom room of af their home until she he had to barricade herself In her room She de declared declared dared he derided her when she told their son there was a God Mrs Lemp also told how her hus bus husband husband band had often threatened her with JUt a revolver how he had a detective trail her how he had locked her out of her home and ad how once he had moved out the furniture while she was absent I On Mrs rE Lemp temp said that her husband had taught her herto herto herto I to smoke cigarettes after their mar marriage marriage marriage I The religious education of ot the boy I I I I was wag one Oile of the main cau of differ k enee ence according to Mrs testimony U t j mony mon She asserted that she ss had bad hed UK the boy baptised In m the Ron Catholic Ca 1 r c church despite his hill r wishes wish to J the contrary but added that she had told Mr Lemp temp of ot her ber intention to has haft this ceremony performed f Agreement It was as brought out nut that two to ante t nuptial agreements agreement had bad boon boen entered into One hound Mrs Lemp temp not to In In hi the tite religious training of ff any child untO until he ILS was seven ven years earl old and nil I the other In the presence of an all archbishop bound Mr Lemp temp not to ob oh jeet to the baptism of a child Both floth B th documents document bear the Rime mme date datt sod and rid It H I is the contention of L Lemps mp at torne that Mr Irr temps Lemp agreement was u to tho tb other and super superseded superseded it itA ItA ItA A letter was s introduced in evidence which was waa wati found by Mr Hr temp Lemp Lt mp among amont his private papers It was wae ad a at dressed to My M dear little pal and t contained this sentence He is going hunting next week and ami e o ou oto I wish to heaven hven he never would re return turn u Mrs Lemp temp acknowledged that she had bad written the letter Jetter but explained t that she had done so 80 in an effort to find out who had been tampering with her private papers She said mid that the J O letter was a decoy decor and had been so placed that her husband see it if ir he searched her desk esk She Sh acknowledged acknowledged acknowledged edged that the he to In la tim tha letter was her husband husban t f ff ft t t f f |