Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-17 | Page 2 | Divorce Suit is Sequel to Assault Case

DIVORCE SUIT I IS SEQUEL TO ASSAULT CASE Mrs Ailean Welch Seeks Decree Against Husband Husband Husband Hus Hus- band Involved in t Cooke Dispute Over Child As a sequel to a a. case pending Inthe in inthe the he criminal division of the city court ourt in which Mrs Ailean Allean Welch charged her husband Earl J. J Welch with assault and battery suit for divorce was filed In the district I court ourt Tuesday by Mrs Welch Cruelty Cruelty Cru Cru- elty cIty is alleged in the complaint as cause for divorce The case in which Mrs Welch charged her husband with assault and battery for an alleged act in stopping topping the auto in which she was riding iding with friends and attempting to o drag her from the machine was recently tried In the criminal division divi- divi sion lon of the city court and postponed for or the taking of further evidence when Attorney Samuel A. A King is isable isable isable able to appear in behalf of the de- de REFER TO MRS COOKE During the trial of this case the alleged attentions of Welch to Mrs Hilda lilda Betty Cooke engaged in an art International controversy with her husband J J. J Henry Co Cooke ke over the possession of of their child Shirley y Cooke were briefly referred t to In her complaint for divorce Mrs Welch cites the Incident of the automobile automobile au- au and her husbands husband's attempt to to o drag her from the machine and she also alleges that on another oc occasion occasion oc- oc casion In their apartment in the Belvedere he struck her and knocked her head against the tele tele- ph phone ne Mrs Welch alleges that at the time Welch married her he was Indebted to her herin In the sum Bum of as evidenced by a note She charges that he paid ba ba Ji only 1000 1000 of the amount and thin then tore up ip the note HAS VALUABLE PROPERTY C Plaintiff alleges that her husband husband hus bus band Is capable of earning 1000 a month that he has extensive holdIngs in the Great Western Coal CoalMines CoalMines CoalMines Mines company and the Coal company and that he is about to dispose of his property Mrs Welch asks a a. month alimony attorney fees fee and restoration of her former name Ailean Allean Whitmore Plaintiff an order to show cause why defendant should not be restrained from disposing of his assets pending decision of the case and an order was Issued by Judge Ephraim Hanson