Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-08-17 | Page 1 | Dempsey Starts Suit for Divorce; Charges Cruelty

t DempseY Starts Suit for Divorce i L Charges Cruelty T Battle Nears Ii i h j I i JACK DEMPSEY and andt t ESTELLE TAYLOR fe Divorce Is Their ir Prize e 7 Hearing Awaits Answer to Complaint Fails to List 4 Specific Allegations ESTELLE PROMISES FIGHT Dickering for for- Property Settlement Settlement Settle Settle- ment Believed Unavailing I n D Dr Treat Free RENO Aug 17 Jack 17 Jack Dempsey t filed ut for divorce today chartin chart chart- in his wife site Estelle Taylor Dempsey I with extreme cruelty No specific allegations of oC cruelty were enumerated The action was filed In the n name nam of ot William Harrison Dempsey Dempse b bRobert by Robert E. E Burns Bums attorney for th the former heavyweight champion after Burns had spent more than an houin hour hou hourin hourin in the county clerks clerk's office ft e complaint complaint com corn plaint in hand awaiting word jord from rom Los Angeles as to Mrs Dempsey's Dempsey contemplated divorce action there The case was not placed on th the court calendar and time of its hearing hearing hearing hear hear- ing is indefinite DEFAULT UNLIKELY The case will not be set for hearing hearing hearing hear hear- ing until Mrs Dempsey's answer is received Should there be no answer to the complaint the divorce could coul be granted by default but this is no not considered likely in view of the l large larg property interests involved Dempsey with a series of exhibition exhibition tion lion matches involving arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ranged throughout several states is anxious to have hac the case set as soon soo as possible his attorney said His first exhibition will take place in n Reno Wednesday night when h he meets Jack Beasley and Tony Fuente Fuente Fu Fu- Fu- Fu ente in the rin ring Shortly thereafter he is scheduled to tour the northwest north north- west Filing of the complaint came after weeks of fruitless negotiation with attorneys for his w wife e on a property settlement BATTLE NEARS Miss Taylor was expected to counter counter coun coun- ter er the suit with recourse to the Lo Los LosAn Los An Angeles eles divorce courts She was quoted as saying that i if Dempsey filed his suit she would immediately instruct Joseph Scott her attorn attorney e to bring suit in Los An An- where the battle should be fought ought Under a new ruling of the courts here lere today it was anticipated the public would be denied permission to to o hear evidence in the Dempsey SUIt uit Both courts were closed to spectators spectators spec- spec and s sightseers under a new agreement to Judges Moran and Curler CurIer The press will be permitted attend o the hearings however cr unless un- un lc less s' s good reason is shown for lor prIvacy privacy Estelle Says Sh She i Will Contest Suit HOLLYWOOD Cal cai Aug J a 17 UP UP-Estelle UP Estelle Taylor screen actress will vill contest the divorce suit Ja JaDe Jack Jacc D De Dempsey e m p s e y former heavy heavyweight weigh champion brought Drought against her in Reno Rena and meantime she her herself ell will vill bring divorce action against him in n the Los Angeles courts she the said today v