Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-07-10 | Page 1 | Blind Piano Tuner Jailed in Contempt on Failing to Pay Wife's Divorce Bill

Blind Piano Tuner Jailed in Contempt On Failing to Pay Wiles Wife's Divorce Bill CHICAGO July 10 UP In JP-In In Its curious episodic way Chicago's alimony ow row i ii h constantly turnIng turnIng turning turn turn- ing up some new facet of oC the tho human drama Consider the case of ot Arthur Eick blind plant plane tuner My wife divorced me and I Iwas was ordered 0 o pay 1 11 a aeck week eck tor for the support of her er and our I child ho he said today I make 25 n a a week tuning pianos in the public public pub pub- lic lie schools This leaves me mo 14 out nut of which I X pay S 9 a week for board and room Five dollars re remains remains re- re mains for carfare laundry clothIng clothIng clothIng cloth- cloth Ing medical cara caa and incidentals He can keep up the tho alimony y payments all right he said but j the rub Is the 95 e b which the court c i t. t JL j ordered him tc to pay his wife's lawyer The judicial view of ot Eicks Eick's plight is hardly one of ot sympathy said Judge Philip J J J. Finnegan who sent him to tho the row for tor cont contempt contempt con con- t tempt of court merit in tho the There is no case cose He has bas only himself tp blame He Hea I a acted ted in a defiant manner