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Show If HALF-DOZEK WIVES J GRANTEODiVOfiCES , Judge Morse's Divorce Mill Has I j Heavy and Interesting Grind. EDIFYING SKIRMISH IS Ik HAD IN GILLMOK CASE H "One Lone Husband Tries tor a p Divorce. mt Is To'' I Wait. Sis unhappy wives were granted di-:; di-:; vorces in Jtidgo Chnrles W. Morse's I division of the third district, court Fri- U, day afternoon. The burden of iho com- i plaint, in each case was nou-support, tl coupled, either with drunkeness or dn- , sertioh. One dissatisfied husband asked k' for but was temporarily denied a de- ' s orcc. ' i; ' ' Junius. B; Fullmer, whoso vocation ' is that of a stonemason and whose avo- ' . cation is that of a musician, has come j home drunk nearly every nijrht for Iho lost threo years, Mrs. Hannah Fullmer I . said- t wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't persisted in wakintr hor up and abusing her, she asserted. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Fullmer, corroborated cor-roborated this, and the divorce was l. . readily granted. They wore married Octobor 7, 1003. At last Selena May Kramer is free from Hermann Auiiust Kramer, to !., whom she was married May 1001, . and, apparently tho ,ioy is mutual. About eichteen months ajio Mrs. Kramor asked for a divorce on tho orouiid of crueltv. II i but the court classed the dilhcult-y as I ,, :i Ctiarrel between children and dis- I i jnissed iho caso. It developed then I that the marriage was an unfortunate I one, the girl being a Mormon and lira- J mer a non-Mormon. Sineo eacli has I 1 persistency refused to livo with the I other. Kramer refused to return to I ' her and she refused to tolerate the idea I j ' of allowing him to return, so bitter was ) ) their animosity. Once Mrs. Kramer i ft met him on tho street, she said, and 1,1 he even refused Jo notice their little t sir!, -1 years old. "With tho divorce Mrs. Kramer was (riven the custody of the , child and $10 a month alimony. Mrs. Bess Is Freed. ' Besides failing to provide for hor, George T. Bess has been (ruilty of habit- ual drunkeness for live years, Mrs. Jennie N. Bess said. He also beat her with his lists, she said. Sho sot a di- J vorce, $S a month alimony and the custody cus-tody of the two children, '6 and 7 years old, respectively. Tho marriage took place here Juno 29, JS9S. ,, , - Although David 72. Gutshall earns a I ' fancy salary as a railway conductor he "( spent little of it on" Frances M. ' , uuishall, she testilied. and she cot a , divorce on tho ground of non-support. ''- , Sho has been earning a living sewing. i .she, said. They wore married at. Denver June 10. 1001. Ttosella Pitts got a divorce from ' Joseph Pitts on the grounds of non-sup- jf" port, coupled with desertion. In August M ; of 1007. Her maiden name of HofiVm- beck was also restorod. Tbcv were i married at Farmingtou May '2S last " year. , LueUa C. Danner said tli3t sho has i virtually supported herself for the last ji seven years and she was granted a do- V Oreo from Ernest B. Danner, to whom l a- she was married at Meadville, Pa., Oc- j j lobcr 15, 1SS5. There is one sou, 10 years old. with- the plaintiff ', L If; ' ' Austin. Must Wait. tj .There was a discrepancy in the tcsti- ( M mou3; of Harry Austin, ' Buing Jonuie Jl Austin fordivorce on the ground of de- 1 Vt sortiou. and Mrs. C. J. Trumble, his j only witness, and the court continued Jrf the case a 'week. Austin said that ho ,K jcft s at Stockton, Cal., when i j he came to Nevada on hiB way to Utah, i 1 as she refused to como with him to live, ; )', and declared that he had not heard from l her since coming here- Mrs. Trumble, t at whose place Austin rooms, said Aus- fa tin liad shown hor a letter from his ' h ''fc April of 1007, iu which she dp- -V clared that she" would not como hero At to. live with him. Iu view of this discrepancy the court continued the caso for further investigation. I a IK Gillmor Caso TJp. l . Charles Gillmor, the one-armed farmer, suing Mrs. Sarah Gillmor for Vfitf divorce on tho ground of desertion, filed t spifcy reply to Mrs. Gillmor 's answer ,jn and counter-claim to his complaint. Tho mi reply was read to'tho court by Gillinor's it counsel. m After setting out a denial of cruel j treatment alleged by Mrs. Gillmor, .Gill- M more admitted reprimanding Mrs. Gill- Li r m 1892 when he roturncd home V. ' ?CG day and found her misconducting Ik! Jicrselr with a younger man. He savs , J-hac now she is tTying to 'cast him off because-he is a cripple and broken down M conerally For fifteen years-he has been 11 sno.iectod, to the bitterest of abuse and ti vituperation from Mrs. Gillmor, ho dc- rs dares. h Gillmor admitted the ownership of m ?Co acres of land, but denied that it 1 is worth $10,000. as set out by Mrs. A J Gillmor. or that he owns personal prop- t j f-rtr and mining stock sufficient to raise 'N . hjs -wealth to anytliing like $25,000, as ii :-ia.imcd ov. Mrs. Gillrhor. A part of , m nis farm, eightv acres, he has. contracted nJ. s.ale for S3000. ho said, but most ti is covered by water and practicallv tlii worthless. He admitted having $4500 m m a local bank. ' Wife Well Off. i'l ' ,rs- Gillmor, he. said, with their two Vfe , eldest sons, owns 80Q0 head of stock J: which bring her anmialjy $12,000 a ylf,' ranch of O000 acres and has money 'out dfci on interest. His farm , is not worth ;h jnore tkan $2500. He denied the owner- W ship of any kind of stock except some ;,'ifl3 worthless oil stock which ho was fraud-ulently fraud-ulently induced to purchase1 by the mis- ISfcj Topresentations of his wife's' friends, he ijfl declared. 'fni .Mrs. Gillmor, on tho stand, denied the 5(r ownership or. any propertv whatever ox- I 'M . ,cctan cr ot lan iu North Salt Laku. Vt left her by her father, which isvoycred ! vitn water most of the year. sheaid ,k ' At the .conclusion of the testimony ! . el Jhe roftrainnig order enjoining Gillmor i from disposing of liis property or draw- M ing money ont of the bank was modified ' r lo permit him to draw $70 a month. $5 i r. " of which is to keep himself and 35 of 1 cl- which is to go to Mrs. Gillmor 'a supi i is port while the action is pending. Vi |