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Show BIB USUI Three Unhappy Persons Admitted Ad-mitted to Membership in Divorce Colony. MRS. LULU VOIGHT'S SENSATIONAL STORY Austrian, Mixed in Dates. Is Given Week to Straighten Them Out. . TCusinoea was light in the divorce lino in tho district court Friday. Only three decrees were granted bv, fudge Morse during I113 regular wccklv call. Lulu Voight was the 'first applicant be) ore the court. Sho asked for u divorce from Gus Voight on the grounds pt desertion and failure to support. She told tho court that they were' married ' Aztec, New Mexico, on Janunrv 15. 1008, and that hor husband deserted her in Soplembor of the same vear. Judge Alorso inquired of Mrs. Voight Ihe cause of tho desertion, and finally succeeded in gottmg' that information. Mrs. Voight. said that she had a daughter by a former husband and that after her marriage to Voight thev lived in Durango, Colo. A man about GO venrfl nf inn cl.n .,:,! .1.,. 1 criminal relations with hor daughter and commit led suicide within fifteen miuutos afler being arrested for the pftonso. Sho and Voight I hen decided to come to Salt. Lako and she came at once, bringing her daughter with her. Voight. 'followed shnrtlv afterwards, but refused to live with her again as long as her daughter stayed with her, and ho ai6o refused to support her, Mrs. Aoight paid. 'This satisfied the court aud Mrs. VoighW was granted a decree. Port Deserted. Desertion was (he ground upon which II our' Fort was granted a divorce from Alma Fort: They were married in England, Eng-land, January 1G, 1SD0, aud have one minor child. Fort declared that his vrim oesoricct .turn wiiiiout cause 011 July 6. 100S. T11 addition to tho divorce he was awarded thc custody of the child. Catherine f'rosa told Ihe court that Oscar Cross doserlod her within Ion weeks after their marriage, and bad failed to support her ever since. Thev wero married in Ogdou on August 22, 1001. and Cross deserted her on November No-vember 1 of the same 3'ear. Sho was also era n ted a divorce. A little mix-up in tho dates as lo how long ho had resided in this county prevented pre-vented Pete Pauijan, an Austrian, from securing a divorce from Augusta Paui-,iau Paui-,iau on the ground of desertion. Pete told a good.slory about his wife leaving leav-ing him while thoy w'ero in Butte, Monl., ou July 27. 100S. and running away with another man. He, .said that sho took their dnughlor with her, but left their son for him to caro for. Judge Morso examined him atomo length as lo when ho came hero from Butte, and ho sLilod emphatically that ho did not arrive here until about November 10, 190S. That being tho case lie was not a resident of Iho county for a year prior to tho commencement com-mencement of M10 action, which was filod ih September of (his year, henco ho could not maintain tho action. Upon rerfuest of tho attorney in tho caso tho matter was continued for ond week. and in the meantime Pauijan will try to gel. his dales straightened out. Upon thc proper showing Judgo Morse entered mi order requiring J. A.' Baker Bak-er lo pay Pauline Baker Ihe sum of $G0 a iiionlh alimony on Iho thirteenth of each mouth, and 'also $10 attorney's fees. The court made these amounts a lien upon Baker's wages, which will lie duo and payable baturday. Mrs. Baker testified that her hunband ia a conductor on the Denver & Rio Grande railroud, and earns $200 a month, and that ho has failed to support her and their children, and also treated her iu a cruel manner. Sho also said that ho threatened to on it his job and leave, the city if sho filed suit for divorce against, him. |
