Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-16 | Page 1 | Pence Will Fight Separation Suit

PEE WILL FI9HT SEPITI SUII Former Colorado Congressman Congress-man Denies AH the Charges Made by His Wife. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, June 15. Mrs. Iifay-ette Iifay-ette Soper Pence's threatened suit for separation sep-aration from her husband, formor Congressman Con-gressman Lafayette Pence of Colorado, In which the name of Mrs. Lillian D. Duke, divorced wife of the tobacco magnate, mag-nate, Is mentioned, will bo fought by Mr. Pence. In his proposed answer to tho contemplated contem-plated bill Mr. Pence, who reached here tonight, will deny all allegations that Mrs. Ponce may make aa to his conduct In his statement Mr. Ponce said: "It is unnecessary for me to make a denial of my wife's charges to any of her relatives or her frlonds who havo had a chance. to study her disposition, or to my relatives who know her. The general public pub-lic which has road the charges, however, ought to be Informed that the accuEatlon against Mrs. Duko, a client of my firm, is absolutely false and. procooded, from a deranged mind, whose flights I ' have cn-durod cn-durod uncomplainingly for a quarter of a century. "My attorneys and friends have long known all the facts and havo tho data covering my wife's conduct from the time I first met her and T shall leave it to them whether thero is anything further to "bo said on the subject."