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Show Ex-Husband in Court to Deny Death Story Controverts Woman's Statement State-ment That He Was Buried in Texas in 1913. I REELEY, Colo., May 29. The sight Gof a woman testifying in court that her ex-husband Is dead, and then of a man saying he was the ex-husband appearing on the stand to controvert con-trovert this testimony, was furnished in district court here today in the divorce suit brought by Mrs. R. T. Collins, against R. T. Collins, proprietor of a local hotel, asking $16,000 alimony. Mrs. Collins testified her first husband, Samuel E. Baker, died at Snyder, Tex., and she paid his funeral expenses. She said she saw him die, in June, 1913. Then the defense called Samuel E. Baker, formerly of Greeley, and now of Cleveland, Ohio, to the stand, to deny that he died in 1913. Baker complained to the Judge about a loss of pay from his regular employment Just to prove he was alive. Mrs. Collins swore the Cleveland Baker is not the Baker she knew as husband. |