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Show A ltlll'TK IN HUMAN FORM, A I-anif-nlalilf Tate nf Domrttlc In-frllclly In-frllclly Told In t'oiirt. The old, old ilomntln tlory of drink, ilrrrtlon, and cruelly wa related In Judge Anderton'i Court Ihlt morning on the hearing of a divorce ault tu which the plalntll! wat Jennie Led-llngtou Led-llngtou (daughter of Mr, Jamei 1.. . Chalmen, tllk weaver of thla clly) nnd the defendant Frederick U. Lrddlug ton, by occupation a laborer. Tho ptttlet ware married In Halt Lake on Augiitt .Ird, ISS'l, ami It would ap.ear fmiu the wife' pitiful recital that almott from that time her liutUnd had rei-rntnlly given way to drunken-lint, drunken-lint, Hut ho had liablluatly neglecle.1 her and her child (bom In April, 1S97J, nudawaulleil heron varlou occatlon. Owing lo lilt mlaconduct the plalnllir found It neceetary tn leave nim during the very llrtt jearof llielr nianled life, and took refuge at her father' home. Hho there niaaliiul for neatly n twelve month, Mr. Chalmcr providing food and clothing for mother and child, nnd tho plalnlirt doing occatlonal work In her father' el Ik lac lory. Tha liutUnd having promltr.l b l-ehova belter lii the future fu-ture and lead an upright life, Mia. Leildlngloti, after talking the mailer over with her father, contented tu go and live with him again. He, how. ever, failed tu keen hla piomlieln every particular, fell back Into hla drunken wa)t,tclcd wllliirrott cruelty Uiwarda hie wile, and wholly neglcctiil to provide for hor. On one nn-atloii, ab.,ulu ninnlli before tho birth of tho child, ho midea cowardly atlaclc upon her, and tlruclc heraevcral llmr. He wa then airraid ami tuntuctl tu a term of linptlaoiiineut. The father of the pUlnllir corroborated corrobo-rated thu imor wumin'a autemetit aa lo )eddliitoii'a drunken procllvlllea aiiillilideiirlloiioflii-raud the child, and atld that whan hit daughter came to lila homo for protection the had n mail: oier the cr, canted, tttihe aald, by a blow from lierhutbaii'l. The plilntlil It a pleatant-looklng lllllo woman, about twenty-elglil loan of age, but her face brnra un inlitnkeablu trace of coutlderablo uieubilangulth. - Judge Anderton granlcl the do" ciee prayed for, and iixiircaml hi dltgutt at the defendant1, conduct. Nothing, he ttld, wat too bad for a man who would deliberately ttrlke or otherwliu ait-iull a woman In Ilia condition con-dition In which Mr. I.e-ddlnuton waa ebow n In have bi u un one of llio occa-alonaof occa-alonaof hit brutality. ItlilirrdleMloaiy that thu drfcll dant had not Ihe manllneotoit In an pH-nranee, referring to allow Judgment Judg-ment to guhy default. The iilaliillir' attorney wu Jlr. A. It. Hawyer. |