Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-13 | Page 5 | [Illegible] May Make Up

f MM 1 MAKE LIP Sf Divorce Trial ffear the At- DETAILS SjjlNKING HABITS Mlliat as a Cadet Everything p. as. Tho climax o ifl 5' caao camo today ' declared on his dl- t he had always been Thl3 was near the 'r and was In answer sj attorney. 3 (d tho Captain con- t? he events leading: up M ff himself nnd his ' 9 farewell with his decided to scparato, ng to tho Philippines. 71 ely called him "Tag" q -bye. me on Taggart g 5'natlon. which was & tdjournmcut at noon Q y Smyser. for Mrs. m convey tho lmprea- g pne was rcsponBlblo for tho over-Indulgence of his wife In Intoxicating In-toxicating liquors. Thnt lino of questioning question-ing will probably bo pursued on Monday. Cadets Drank Everything. "Wo drank about everything that came our way," said Taggart, describing a Ihlrd-yoar leave he had spent with other cadets In New York. Ho frankly admitted ad-mitted that tho cadets drank about all tho drinks they knew of; that they camo pretty fast and that ho liked thorn. Ho aid not becomo drunk In Now York and drank temperately there, as lnvarlably afterward. In reply to a question as to how much ho drank at Fort Douglas, TLaggurt replied: "I daro say about tho samo as you would havo drank." Amuses the Crowd. Tho court-room burst Into a roar of lauchtor at this. Tdggart kept whisky and beer for tho entertainment of guests, and usualy drank with them but never nlone. He would effor guests drinks six times a day If they would drink them that often, but himself vould observe his habit of Bobrlcty by reducing the slzo of his drinks. At Camp Hlghwood, now Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, Taggart had met and married mar-ried "this little woman," aa Smyser Invariably In-variably called Mrs. Tnggart. Ho supposed sup-posed that sho had been reared to abstain ab-stain from liquors, but could not know certainly. Neither could ho say sho nover offered him llcuor. Thought Her Infatuated. During tho courtship ho thought "this llttlo woman" had been Infatuated with him. Ho denied that he "Induced" her to drink beer when sho first joined him at Plattsburg barracks, but said ho raised no objection when tho trained nurso who accompanied her from Chicago HUggested It Sho drank It, sho said, for .mcdlolnal purposes, and ho accepted her reason aa trupL Talk of Reconciliation. Thoro Is talk In "Woostor of a. txjRBJbln reconciliation of tho estranged husband nnd wife, as a result of somo of the developments de-velopments of tho trial, nnd It Is pointed out that tho Captain In his testimony has been as considerate of Mrs. Tacgart's feelings as ho possibly could under tho circumstances. .