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Show DIVORCE STATISTICS. Floures Show About One Couple In Twenty Sought Legal Separation. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Jan. 31.-Aa3umlng that there dreSOOO adult persons residing In eber county, and that half of the number are married, there was ono divorce for approximately ap-proximately every twenty married coup os n tho county during the year 1913. according ac-cording to the statistical report prepared by the county clerk lor tho stato statistician. statis-tician. A largu majority of t he divorce dicrec3 granted in tho two divisions of the district court wcro Issued to wives. Of the ten Interlocutory decrees granted grant-ed to wives, throo wore for cruelty, ono for desertion and six for failure to provide. pro-vide. The four Issued to husbands included in-cluded ono for adultery, one for cruelty and two for desertion. There wore eighty-eight eighty-eight final decrees granted to wives, on tho following grounds: Adultery, two; convicted for felony, seven; cruelty, eleven; elev-en; desertion, nineteen; drunkenness, llvo; falluro to provide, forty-nine. Of tho eighteen final decrees granted to husbands, hus-bands, sixteen were Issued fordcsortlon. one for cruelty and one for Insanity. Tho total number of divorces, both Interlocutory Interlocu-tory and final. Issued to wives and husbands hus-bands during tho year was 120. Tho convictions In Uio Wobcr county divisions of the district court during WIS wcro as follows: For assault with intent to commit murder, one; second-degree burglary, fix; thlrd-dcgreo burglary, two; falluro to support wife, threo; forgery, two; grand larceny, two; petty larceny, five; robbery, six; selling liquor without license, two; selling opium, one. Twenty males worn sentonced to terms In the state prison, seven males to terms In tho county Jail and threo females to tho county Jail. Tho nationalities of the persons per-sons convicted according to tho report, arc given as eight nntlvu born, four foreign for-eign and eleven unknown. |