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Show BlgEl; Mrs. Matilda Witness in Utah-ll .. Sugar Trial Relation of Bertha John Beck Is T0l D"ring Day. Special to The Tribune PROVO, Sept. '4Tn 1 John Beck against the iAZ( company waa resun, ,A Fourth district court, fo' ponement August 2S, wh, lourned for Judge a. b m0 tend court in Duchesne ani A ties. N. G. Morgan and E c V,, peared in behalf 0( the Richard W. Young:, Sr., ani A Jr., represented the de;.ia.', Mrs. Matilda Goss B,,k '4- the plaintiff, was recalled Inatfon. She testified la d 0'' during the time the In "8 were under displeasure J ment and stated trai ' J she and Louise Goss Br-vktA sumed names, as un-narrid " with Peter Goss, the miXpTAA, teui,uA thai Mrs- v-'A 'f. with John Beck and was recos i as nls wife. Until -about 1900, she ano tried to continue their se.rel . lations, she asserted. pItI had entertained very la-i''i,iv" John Eeck and that she t'v' .;-never .;-never attended anv of' tW'2 1 except a lunch given at tr.V ,i house. Mrs. Beck said. T - r' clared she had entertained "n.'. at her own home for huimate' members of her family. Marriage Kept Secret, j While living in Germar.v, ft testified, she always 1Vent i-n-c-i-. of Miss Fredricks, but sh'.i'i ner wedding ring all the tirre T ness testiiied that ecaase cutlons for plural marriage lt ' ,'. Beck were forced to keep t:ir i secret. ; i A deposition from Man- E. ToT introduced by the dei'end'ar.t a d court. Mrs. Young, who Ihes i-.t geles. stated that she was a ' General Richard W. Tounj. ardi ter of John Beck bv Ssra- M stated that she onlv saw E-.-3 . two or three times betven M-ii and that she did not knov ihi father had ever married E-rti legally. j After the noon reces? Mrs. Mi -Beck was recalled by the ce:r.4i testified that a portrait of Johr. been given her by Mr. Eecl: t . death of his first wife, Mrs. ?arl Genera! Richard V. Y-a 4.: the appearance of the B-eMve ii which reference had been rr.ace : Matilda G. Beck. Gibbs Is Witness. George F. Gibbs, secretary to presidency of the church of La Saints, was the next vclincss. He' -to a meeting of the quorum of iht August 15. 1S?5, at wr.i-h A--csll ham H. Cannon was present H that Apostle Cannon was ao;ent f. meetings after that, ar.d v.::r.css know cf his own knoc "..el Cannon was in the state d-r:r:tr Lester Merrill of Salt La'e that he was a son-in-law of Jo : and Sarah Beck. He ftrtc.er te! ' going to the homes of Bert.a. Ma" Luise Beck after their ".arril : described the furniture ar.d pic the houses, differing sorr,ewc.at . depending on the taste cf the During 1S36 and ISf-T he isi I Beck at famiiy gatherh.es. sn that Mr. Beck had sat at v.i table. . " Mr. Beck described a n"rr.:: i:r that had been given at the w MatildR Goss Beck to her persa j mon friends, ar.d so far as r.e ( Mr. Beck spent about an ec:sl --of --of time at each of t cese o - nearly as Mr. Merrill co..: r j John Beck expressed rezre: a u ! rate entertainments give;: ov J.rl .: I Beck. . - The witness testified trai J . said that Mrs. Bertha jim :-sJ -Mr. Beck marryii-.g her. 0"t . -his lecal wife, and stated tss I : had declared that when re ir. wife he already had a woa-. ;J Bertha Beck had ''.ever knowledge of the witness ,w :. the lesal wife of Joc.n Bk.. , the witness knew. Mrs. Ber.r-i alwavs believed to be a family. |