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Show I COWSPIRACY TO GET P, DIVORCE CHARGED if I Lichicnslein Brothers, For-merly- Well-Known in Salt j thr Lake, Indicted. : f JURY BELIEVES WIFE I - Mrs. Nat Lichtenstein SayS ! Friend of Her, Husband IM Aided in the Plot. - jjjjj Kveryono who, lived in Salt. Lake ton fiklj- years ago will remember the Liclitcu- lJj ; stein jewelry ttoro on Main street, just south of Second South. Kvcryonc, too, likwL remember rlir Lichtenstein family iirwu t,Ip fn,n1, "m FOn! especially. -so jjjljjff .1 exeat mnnr will remember Mrs. Nat Hlfsl Lichtenstein, tho wife of odo of the flCnr sons. These circumstances ami persons l&or wl'" c rcn,cin')erpf' because one of the Ici i cuniMa ui us mo yiuvi'ii ul mt; ji-elrv ji-elrv business was a notablo achieve-lueut, achieve-lueut, in tho business world. The persons per-sons will be remembered on account of their prominence. The fact that M. B. Lichtenstein. and hi? sons lived in Salt Lake and thrived and prospered b- reason of their jewelry, jew-elry, business is old news. The fact that two of the sons have been indicted in San Francisco bv n craud jury is new news. The indictment was returned last Monday. Jt was the outgrowth of a charee thai the. Lielilenstcin brothers. broth-ers. At.torncv Milton Nathan and II. I. .Joseph had conspired falsely to bring and maintain a divorce, action against Anita Feder Lichtonstcin, tho wife of Nat Lichtenstein. Cafe Dinner Figures. The alleged conspiracy involved a lit tic dinner at a cafo in which Mr. Jo-soph Jo-soph ami Mrs. Lichtenstein were the principal figures until the husband and his brother and his attorney appeared upon the scene. Then the latter be-I'iimo be-I'iimo the principal figures. It was charged bv Mrs. Lichtenstein that her husband and his brother and his attorney attor-ney appeared upon the scene because Joseph, who adopted the. convenient and brief name of "Rcn,;' had telephoned tele-phoned to Nat. Lichtenstein that the psychological moment had arrived and that if he, the. husband, should suddenly sud-denly mako his entrance into the private pri-vate room in the cafe where the dinner served for two was in progress, he would learn something to liis ndvantago in i lie way of evidence in divorco pro- BjHR Two"" days after tho interrupted din- HilK ncr party, Nat Lichtenstein began an I action for divorce. He named "Ben" Joseph as co-respondent. Then the wife hired a lawyer and brought, the little nrix-up to the attention of the grand jury. The wife testified before 'he grand jurv, and the jurors took her word for it. that, tho whole world was against her, and that her husband. Lis brother. Milton Nathan and "Ben" Joseph, were, especially interested in bringing about her downfall in order that ihere might be. a division of the community property, tho quotient, of IflB coarse, being largely in favor of the men folks in the case. H Story Told by Wife. IH The San Fiancisco flnonicle tell the MB story of the Lichtenstein indictment as IBK follows: wmm According to the wife's testimony HH before the grand jury on January H. HH site was enticed Into a room at the IHH Pay Slate cafe. 275 O'Farrell street. RB by .loscph. whom she know as Ben Hl .loscph. and that while she was in KIH I he place I lie door of the room was IH opened and her husband entered. Hr accompanied by his brothers and HI Nathan. This all took place on Hip. MB evening of December 2S, K'U. and HJ two dnK later a complaint was filed jH by l.lchtf iiHteln. asking for a divorce IHl and charging Joseph as co-respon- 1 A I if. l.ichtenstelu alfo claimed that flBV while ou her way to the cafe Joseph wVH induced her to l":ivo her jewelry at Shrive Co.'h store on pretense of BV having It cleaned. Tills Jewelry. BBfll Id the wife, was later railed for BSpB by her husband nnd hidden by him UK that she could not recover It. BV In explaining Iter presence in the RVBV mom with .loscph. Mrs. Lichtenstein 1 '-st If led that after calling at Shrovc's BBV store, ostensibly to procure a Ohrist- DaVa mas present, where, Joseph induced DBHH her to leave her rings and other Bm Jewelry for tho purpose of having BjV them cleaned, the latter then Invited BhH her to have dinner with him at the BjVV nf. In the meantime, hor hus- HBH band received a telephone message UflH from Joseph, ami came nnd broke XhBI into the place. Then, she asfcrts, fpjpjl she inn into the adjoining room. IAjSj wliRiv .ho wax discovercfl by licr husband and his brother?. Jury Believes Woman. IBB The sr.nn Jiiit. after a number of Bpj hcaihics. apparently decided that the wclrht uf evidence wns on the side IBjBjVj of the nnd the Indictments of HAW eslerdny resulted. iHBB .rofoph. the alleged co-respondent, IniI n'1" ls 'odietcd as belntr a party to IpJBj the suppofod conspiracy apralnst Mrs. (jPpjf Llchtenvteln, .v-ntd to he a travcl- f AV Inc -aleriniHit. well-known In this f BH 'lt- Hiy residence is In th east, r hut he Is known to have visited hero tBjM frcoucnlly, and was believed to be iBBj n close friend of th Llchtenstclus. jDHB Ills present whereabouts arc re- iVwBV ported to be unknown. MlKH The two LlohteiiMeins are mem- fj Bj hers of the firm of M". 11. IJchtcn- II ntulii Sons' company, stock brokers, Bl with offlrea ut 0 Montcomcry street. mIBv They oc upy aparlmnts af 3072 j Jackson street. H Warrants Issued. W H The Indictment was presented to M f Superior Judcc Gniham, who or-dered or-dered that bench warrant tic l- BjR xued for the four defendants, ball mmjg helnp t at 5100 cash or J308 bonds. The indletments uere found under R ectlou 15'J of the Peunl code, which ( ninko kui'Ii oiusplni'-y m alleged Jn Wsil the true hill a misdemeanor. MRm Attorney Nathan wns notified of niilf the fart that indictments had been (Vile votct and lie Irnnicdbitely relalnctl Ml the services of Gcorre A. ICnlRht. IMH Nsithau ami the two Lfchtctmteins 5 then went to the sheriff s office. J whore they deposited isuili hail and B secured their orders of release. Th 1 Bt "'asc will be set for trial nl an c,arlv I H date before one of the superior court I nL judges. 1 W "I am astonished at hearing thnt 1 ! W the t;ntnd jurj bus Indicted us." said m SB Xathan when he was Informed of mlfvf the action taken by the iuquLtltors. HjvJtt "We have nbundant testimony to JMuI offer supporting tho claims made In I isjHnfl "r divorce complaint nnd will now 1 IBTr! present thin In the trial under the fllilH indictments. Wlierc Joseph Is I do i MCB not know itnil am not Interested In Tliik IarnJnc. We will ask for n apeetly j"j'MJ trial and mil ltavo no dlfrtiltv in r Bu proving our innocence of ttr ihargea B mads by ilra. LlchHusteln. ' |