| Show VAIL DIVORCE TRIAL I Mrs Vail Tells the Court of Her Burden of Woe SAID VAIL LOVED ANOTHER I Testified That Her Husband Beat Her Numerous Times Called Her Vile Names and Insisted on Bringing Bring-ing Mrs Shirman to Their Home She Threatened to Blacksnake Mrs Sherman and Vail She Said Slapped Her Face Supreme Court Reaffirms Informations Decision I II I J The trial of the divorce cnse of Edith Vail VB Elmer A Vail was begun before I be-fore Judge Hall yeai rday with Attorney 1 Attor-ney D X Straup nppoarlng for the plaintiff and E B Crltchlow for the Defendant Vail I Is a civil cnglncr In the employ of the Great Salt Lake Hot Springs Railroad company and la I stoutly contesting his wifes suit and asking that he be granted a divorce the ground of Mrs Vallfl complaint Is cruelty and Vail In his crosscom crely cruelty ulao and In addition plaint alleges dition charges IIH wife with drunken diton associating with dissolute char new a8toIUUng committing adultery with a actors and committng wlh person dejignated as W W whose name It Is understod la Wilsgn There 0 nnOe IK one child of the marriage Gladys ngod 7 years for who custody both Mk and car who from appearances will IM the principal feature of the contest 0 both husband and wife accm to be thoroughly tired of each other Mrs Vail asks for alimony alleging that Vail earns J150 a month has a life insurance in-surance policy for 2000 and also owns eomo mining claim of value Mrs Vail 6000 was partly examined yesterday Yal WiS pnrLY afternoon and will tako tho stand again this morning She testified In substance that she wan married to the defendant on waf March 12 1802 at Ogden by a Justice I of the Peace rind that four months afterward their marital troubles began by her husband objecting to her using face powder She laid he threw the powder box In the grate and when she picked It up he slapped her In the face At Saltalr In July 1S93 she said he pinched her arm called her very vile names and accused her of getting men to buy beer for her She then told of qdarrclB between herself and her husband hus-band In which time and again she said ho had beaten and slapped her and I railed her vile name She said hiI conduct I con-duct wtta particularly about the Jlme their baby waa born and when I she was In u delicate condition About I that time she nail he took her by the neck and threw her against the walj and called her n d brainless Me Connell She also said he stayed out a nights and neglected her nnd noer took her out anywhere On Decoration day 1K > 5 hhe BuldlH goiuto trouble through going out riding with a married mar-ried woman named Mr Sherman He Mayod out all night that time She said he insisted on bringing Mrs Sherman Sher-man to their home and on two or three occnHlonn she Mid she saw her husband kins Mn Sherman and sit with his arm around her on the sofa She ordered Mr Sherman from the house nnd threatened to blacksnake her If nhe ever came to the house again This made Vail very angry and the wltnenH Hold he beat her and slapped h T and told her < ho loved Mrs Sherman anti would bo glad It the witness would die s that he could marry Mrs Sherman Sher-man Mn Sherman lived at Farming ton for a vhllo and Vail his wife said wont there frequently Ho carried her picture In his pockot and when wlt floss tried to jet It away from him ehe said he slapped her face |
