Show TROUBLE IN RICH FAMILY Son Acquitted cf Insanity Charge Brought by Father Criminal Proceedings andCivil Action May Follow I The examination of Ernest II Rich for insanity raised a family storm r brought out the skeleton from the closet sled threw the lime light on chapters of the family history that the family would rather drop the curtain on As far as the examination went however the result was that Rich was discharged dis-charged hu being so evidently sane that the physicians asked for the discharge dis-charge of the defendant after they had asked him a few questions Chief Deputy Dep-uty Eldredgc sat as referee in the case find so Indignant did he become that he won Id have given a months salary to be for the nonce a judge of the District Dis-trict court Even so he delivered himself him-self of the following decision per curlam My only regret said he focusing a steely glint on Rich pater t is 1 that the I low does not furnish an adequate remedy rem-edy to punish a mon like you for bring ing such a ridiculous charge to consume con-sume the time of this court and using the processes of this court for a proceeding I pro-ceeding of this kind If your son assaulted I as-saulted you as you claim you could I have had your remedy in a criminal procedure This case will be dismissed at t your expense I It is said that the next steps In the I family row will he the filing of a criminal I crimi-nal charge by the father E K Rich against the son Ernest II Rich in I which the Eon will be accused of assault I with a deadly weapon and the commencement I com-mencement of a damage suit by the son against the father In which the old r i man win be charged with malicious prosecution Ernest IT Rich yesterday gave the following account of the trouble with his father I had u butcher hook in my hand at the time that my father came Into the more and without warning struck me In the face I had sufliclent control of myself to throw back the hand In which I held the hook which I dropped to the floor after which I struck my father and he fell I then went and picked him up and handed him his hat after which the old man went into the Peoples Forwarding store next door of which he Is the manager I You may wonder at my striking my own father but you will not wonder so much when I tell you that I only made his acquaintance when I was 20 years old When I was a year and a half old he left my mother In Trowbrldge Wiltshire Wilt-shire England and four children of whom I was the third to shift for ourselves our-selves and my mother had a hard struggle for eight years after which she married again Father came to Utah where he had a brother John Rich of Morgan county whohad Joined the Mormon church and he himself became a convert He married again in Utah and raised a family of eight children by his second wife But he has not treated his second family any better than he treated his first Two of his sons he drove from home and they Joined the t army Mrs J B Reid wife of the exCoun cilman was a witness of the encounter between the father and son She said on the witness stand yesterday morning morn-ing that the light occurred about 930 oclock on Wednesday morning |