Salt Lake Herald | 1899-06-16 | Page 5 | Divorce for Colonel Kaighn

DIVORCE FOR COLONEL KAIGHN Referee Dunbar Will Report In the I Plaintiffs Favor Testimony was taken yesterday by I County Clerk Dunbar In the divorce case of Colonel M M Kaighn against his wife Harriet Kaighn and he will I recommend to Judge Hues the granting grant-Ing of the divorce As there was no testimony for the defense there is little lit-tle else for him t do Colonel Kaighn testified that he had ben married since 1892 and that he had lived in Salt Lake with his wife But in 1895 she deserted him and has since refused to return All overtures that he has made have been spurned I Mr Dunbar wanted to know how the I I plaintiff had treated his wife during the time they had lived together In order to get at her cause for leaving him The colonel declared that he had always supported his wife and supprted provided pro-vided a home for her during the time they lived together and he said that he had never Illtreated her His testimony was backed up By that of a near relative of Mrs Kaighn C D Hanks her brother He said that she had In conversation with him spoken of a separation and she was most de ermlned In her refusal to Jive with her husband again He could not testify directly to the treatment r Kalchn received at the hands of her husband hut he said that so far as he knew she had always been treated kindly and I with respect