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Show DIVORGE GRAHTEO; BECREEBOT FILED Peculiar Condition Is Found to Exist in the Crooks Case. MR. AND MRS. CROOKS ARE STILL HUSBAND M WIPE Decree Has Never Been Signed by Judge and Is Therefore There-fore oid. It has been inure than six years now since Marv A. Crunk was granted a ! -crSS "f divorce from Elmer E. Crooks, nnd yet Mr. and Mrs. Crooks arc still husband and wife, according to law. 'rooks Is Well remembered by nianv Salt Lakers. He became Involved In linanclal difficulties and b ft town suddenly. For some time his whereabouts was unknown, b'it later In- returned, rb-i hired he would pay his dehts. if given time and effe, ted a reconciliation with his wife Papers Net Signed. AI g sllll later date. however. Mrs i 'rooks obtnliu-d a divorce from her husband. hus-band. The matter came before Jude Eflles, and, although the decree wns granted, the ilndlngs had not been signed By the Judge when he left the bench. The error was not discovered until four years thereafter) and a motion was then made bef Judge Hall that th. record 1" tnadt complete. However Judge Hall left tin- bench before Ihe papers were presented pre-sented to him for signature and the case remained as before. How Discovery Wns Made. The discovery of the condition of the record was mile hy County "lerk K.ld-redge K.ld-redge within the past few days. And there Is un Interesting Story in ronnec-lliui ronnec-lliui with the dlsiiiverv Some days ago Bar. Bldrcdge was handed a letter, which hail been received hv the County Re- order, from Mrs M D. Mitchell, who gave her address as room Sf"8 Collins blOch Seattle. Wash. Mrs Mitchell In-closed In-closed K and asked for a transcript of the record In the Crooks pase. Mr Kid-rdi' Kid-rdi' looked the mntter up and discovered discov-ered that the decree had never been filed lb- th-n wnde lo Mrs. Mitchell, setting out this fact, but the letter was returned, with the notation upon It that there was no such place as "room 30 Collins block" In Seattle. Missive a Breezy One Still later, nnother letter was received from Mrs Mitchell. She had evldei tlj become angry, because she had received no reply to her first letter, nnd her missive mis-sive was a breezy one. She opened by saying she understood that there were a lot of Mormons here with a lot of wives, Hnd she declared that she did not propose to have her $o used up for any such purpose. pur-pose. She also Intimated strongly that she considered the ofllclals here a lot of gra f ters This letter has been replied to and the facts stated. Mr Eldredge is patiently awaiting another letter from Mrs. Mitchell Mitch-ell In the meantime, many people are wondering sis to the present status of Mr. and Mrs. Crooks. |
