Show MARITAL INFELICITY Divorce Suit of King vs King Grows Interesting MRS KINGS STATEMENT A MOTHERLESS GIRL DECEIVED AND WRONGED AT SIXTEEN Four 3H jmatecl Couples Sundered The Ahhotts the Caldwells the EeUises and the Auderjssons Chief Justice Jlerritt Orders James Ryan to ray Temporary Alimony Judge Bartch resumed the hearing of the divorce suit of Fred King vs Jennie l1f King at 2 oclock yesterday afternoon j A on the previous day Messrs Del Street represented the plaintiff and i Powers LIppman Straup and Lochrla the defendantS I defendant-S Pigman was the first witness for I the plaintiff examined by Attorney Dey I He said he saw Evans the corespond ent and Mrs King together at Spring i vIe one evening about two or three months prior to February 14 1832 the date when Mrs King left for the east Was Out Late Fritz Riepen knew Mrs King in ISM under the name ot Miss Underwood She I frequently came to his restaurant on Commercial street at nights at 10 1 or 12 oclock On one ocassion she came with a lady and two gentlemen after the theatre was over Sue seemed slightly intoxicated then Crossexamined by Judge Powers wit 1 ness said the best people in town came to his restaurant after the theatie for supper sup-per members of the city council and others othersThe I The Plaintiff on the Stand ted King the plaintiff took the stand I said no was an engineer on the mo Grande Western railway His business made it necessary for him to be avay from homo four nights a week W P KvaiiS came to room at his house in lJi It the solicitation of Mrs King witness consented to have a roomer in the house She raid Evans vrao a nice man and the rent he would pay would help them along Evans roomed with them until shortly before Mrs King went east In February 1SKJ Had noticed that his wife was running around a good deal with Evans He remonstrated leaving with her and finally insisted on Evans Jennies Side Of I This closed the case for the plaintiff and Judge Powers on behalf of the defendant de-fendant made a statement of what the o defense expected to prove The judge said that the partIes to the suit were raised In the ame locality back in Main Sho was a motherless girl and at the ace of 1C was seduced by this plaintiff The plaintiff came west and later wrote to the girl to come out to Salt Lake and ho would marry her Trusting in him she came but on her TrustnS he told her he was being sued for breach of promise of marriage by a girl In ths east and it would not be wise for him to marry until he had settled with lie other lath At his solicitation she meejv consented to live with him as his wife without any marriage ceremony betntr performed In this war they lived for several yeas he Introduced her everywhere where as his wife This by the laws existing at that time was sufficient to constitute a marriage and in addition on December 13 1RSS a marriage reromonv I was performed The judge went on to state that Mrs Trim was a firefjl rrncl I cut woman and hart assisted her hush ni I in accumulating hi nroperty and bar I I ben a true and faithful wife to him all these years He would prove that i i nithipp Tonr ever occurred bEtween Mr King and Fvans and that he Trent est with top full hnovledFO and consent of her husband and that the latter had put un a vile conspiracy to set a divorce and all the property airs King Tells Her Own Story Mrs King then tooklthe stand and in reply to Judge Powers said she was X I years of age was acquainted with the i defendant when she was 16 rears of afff I I back at her old home hi Maine They tl f f sini 1 became lovers Witness name was then i i Jennie Jones They became unduly intimate j mate Afterwards he came west and at his solicitation she followed him on his promising to marry her When she II arrived he told her about a lady In the east suing him for breach ot promise and they decided not to marry for the present pres-ent but to live as man and wife and did so for some years until 1SSS when they were legally married 1 Witness did her ow housework and helped Mr King to save and aroumulats properryt She did l sewing and other I work for a lady named Mrs Smith I was with r Smith she went to Fritz RIepeiis restaurant She never went there with men and never was intoxicated Intoxi-cated She was Introduced to Evans by aMiss Miss Cunningham He came to room at their house with the consent of Mr King Nothing Improper had ever taken place between her and Evans She was in poor health when she went east and hard ly expected to live At her husbands solicitation she signed over to him her interest in their home and all the other property just before she went away She did this because he said It she should die her folks would claim her share of the property Witness denied that anything improper had taken place between herself and Evans on the train or any where else She had not undressed the night she was in the Pullman car Witness knew noth ing about the divorce proceedings until May although the decree was granted in March as he afterwards found out The plaintiff knew here she was wh n the divorce was ratE because sho had frequently written him Mr King had property In the east as well as in Salt Lake and had money in the bank When witness learned of the divorce be ing granted she borrowed money from a Mrs Muse of Denver and came to Salt Take When sho arrived she met her husband and they talked over their troubles She explained to him all the Incidents ot the trio east and told him then was nothing in the statements that she had been Intimate with Evans They then resumed marital relations at the Broom hotel and the Reed hotel in Og I den and also at Salt Lake She never considered the divorce lecal and that was whv she consented to have relations I with him again Since the granting of i the divorce the second time she had had no marital relations with him I Further hearing was continued until II Monday morning at 10 oclock unti |