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Show JUDGE MORSE HAS mm w Only Five Decrees Entered. However, at the Regular Friday Matinee. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE CONSUMES MUCH TIME Three Wives and Two Husbands Are Restored to Single Blessedness. Considerable timo wn.x taken up in tho. hearing of orders to show cause and motions mo-tions connected with divorce cases Friday Fri-day afternoon, and five decrees of divorce di-vorce were granted by Judge Morse. Margaret E. Place was granted a decree de-cree of divorce from Clifton II- Place on the grounds of cruelty, non-support ami drunkenness. She testified that they were married In Ogden on March 11. WON and that for some llino pnst her husband hus-band had failed to provide Tor her and had spent all of bis money for liquor Owing to his drinking, she said that she- could not get along with him and on September L':" last they ngreed to separate. sep-arate. On that night, as she wa going to her home, at 0"9 Earl's court, she declared that her husband, stole up behind be-hind her and shot at her with a revolver. revol-ver. A complaint was Issued for his arrest, but he left the stale and she stated thai she did not know whero he was. She was granted a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name, Mar- gnrci Dillingham. . , Nellie P. Spencer declared that Walter V. Spencer deserted her on September X IPUH. a few months after their marriage and that he has not lived with her since They were married In this city on May 0. i'MC. and bnvc one child. Mrs. Spencer was granted a divorce, the custody cus-tody of their child. $1!0 per month alimony ali-mony and a.s attorney's fees. Husband Is Freed. Mai rv L. Kemp was divorced from Ma ml Kemp on the ground of desertion. deser-tion. They were married In Oakland. Cal.. on May :!. I00G. and Mrs. Kemp deserted de-serted her husband in August. 100S A final decree of divorce was granted bv the court in the case of Lizzie X. Atkinson against. PhHlp Atkinson. An interlocutor!' decree was rendered In the case about six months ago. In the case of Jesso V. Rockefeller against Marian Rockefeller, the testimony testi-mony In which was ht-ard last week. Judge Morse granted a divorce as prayed. The court wa-s In doubt la.st week as to the service of the summons being sufficient suf-ficient and took the matter under advisement ad-visement until this week. He decide that service was all right and granted the divorce. Most of the afternoon was taken up in hearing the testimony on the order Issued against Charles A. Holberg to show cause why he should not be punished pun-ished for contempt of court for failing to pay his wife. Louie Holberg. alimony as heretofore ordered by the courL The matter was finally decided by Judge Morse ordering Holberg to pay Mrs. Holberg 5.t by today or otherwise be punished. |