Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-29 | Page 16 | Inez Gomez Whitman is Granted Divorce

iz en wrai IS MUTED hubbe Complaint Shorn of Sensational Allegations and Decree Quickly Entered. Inez Gomez Whitman's sensational suit for divorce from Caswell Whitman on the grounds of desertion, non-support and cruelty came to an end in the Third district court Monday with the granting by Judge George G. Armstrong of Mrs. Whitman 's pica, upon Referee Howard A. King's findings. Mrs. Whitman at first attempted to obtain a divorce on the grounds of extreme ex-treme cruelty, but Whitman contested the case bitterly, filing an answer in which ho charged her with improper relations re-lations with one Lawrence Hccklor, and Mrs. Whitman withdrew this complaint com-plaint and filed a second less sensational sensation-al one, in which she charged simple desertion de-sertion and failure io provide. Whitman Whit-man did not contest this caso, waiving his right to appear and plead, and tho divorce was readily granted, indicating that the two may have reached an agreement to that effect. In the first complaint Mrs. Whitman alleged that Whitman had driven her into tho streets and tried to compel her to live an improper life to support him, and that ho had struck her upon tho streets. In his answer Whitman admitted ad-mitted that ho might have struck Mrs. Whitman, when he found her on tho streets' in company with Heckler, in defending himself. Mrs. Whitman also charged that; Whitman had called her a negro and Whitman in- his answer did not deny this, but claimed that ho did so because be-cause he had married her with tho understanding un-derstanding that there was negro blood in her veins. He alleged that, he did not speak of her as a negress, however, how-ever, to cause her humiliation or mental men-tal pain and distress.