| Show BIGAMY THE + GROUNDS On Which Mrs Jones Was Granted a Divorce t SIX OTHER DECREES GIVEN 4 ON GROUNDS OF DESERTION AND FAILURE TO SUPPORT f John Ties Estate Valued at f94 000 Names of Fifty Jurors Drawn Utah Soap Companys A swer Attachment Suit Against Capital Company Cpit Grocery CompnY t Tree divorce cases were on the calendar yesterday to come up before Judge Riles Seven were tried and decrees de-crees granted while the other six wee either continued or dismissed The most interesting was the case o Anna M Jones against John W Jones the grounds being fraud and bigamy Mrs Jones testified that the defendant was a miner She became acquainted with him at Park City some years ago Two years ago Jones began paying attention at-tention to her telling her that his first wife had lost her reason was committed ted to the asylum at Provo and that shortly thereafter she died Believing what he told her she married him at marre Rock Springs AVyo on Oct 2 1897 They returned to Salt Lake and lived together for three or four months when a rumor reached the plaintiff that Jones first wife was still alive and was an inmate of the asylum Plaintiff Plain-tiff investigated and found that the rumor mor was true whereupon on Jan 1 1S9S she ceased to cohabit with him Witness said she visited the asylum on j Tuesday last and saw the first Ir I Jones there The plaintiff testimony was corroborated corrobo-rated by Silvia Carroll sister of the plaintiff and Mrs Nancy Ann Bagley The court granted the decree remarking re-marking that the statutes did not provide pro-vide fordivorce on the grounds urged but the common law did Mrs Jones was allowed to resume her maiden name of Ann M Carroll The defendant did not appear FAILURE TO SUPPORT Ann I Nielsen was given a divorce from Hans P Nielsen by default on the grounds of failure to provide Mrs Nielsen told the court that she and thu defendant were married in Denmarli in 1873 They came to Michigan igan in 1SS3 and In 1894 the witness said her husband persuaded her u > come to Salt Lake promising that ho would follow her as soon as he could raise a little money She came with her four children two of whom died shortly after af-ter their arrival here She was friendless friend-less and penniless and her husband remained re-mained away and refused to send her money to procure medicine for their sick children or to pay the expenses of their funerals when they died Mrs Nielsens testimony was corroborated corrobo-rated and the decree granted deree grate a prayed C M Nielsen was the attorney for the plaintiff I FORSLUND VS FORSLUND Mary Forslund was granted a divorce from John Forslund The parties intermarried I in-termarried in November 1S91 and it was proved that two years ago the husband hus-band went away and has since failed to contribute anything to the support of his family Mrs Forslund was granted grant-ed a decree and awarded the custody of their three young children Eva Spruell a colored woman was the next plaintiff She said she mar ried Frank Spruell at Fort Bayard N 1 on July 7 1895 He was a member of the Twentyfourth infantry and in I 1S97 deserted both his wife and his regIment Iment She was granted the decree Sarah J Holton vs ISM R Hoi ton decree granted by default on the grounds of failure to provide and plaintiff plain-tiff awarded the custody of their child Frances Collins vs Lascoe Collins decree granted and Mrs Collins awarded award-ed the custody of their child Laura Crane vs Richard M Crane decree granted the plaintiff THESE OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF Stiles D Jones vs Josle E Jones stricken from the call Caroline Rasmussen 5 Bertel C Rasmussen referred to Judge Blair Mary F Pratt vs Nelson R Pratt stricken from the calendar thecaendar Lena Koons vs John W Koons dismissed dis-missed Mary E Lieb vs Charles H Lieb referred to D H Twomey to take testi mony and report |
