Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-31 | Page 15 | Case Involving Divorce, Murder, Suicide at End

t Case ass S Involving I v t S Murder ul el 1 Suicide e at End n POCATELLO POCATELLO- Ida Aug 31 AP APA A A case involving the forgery of a a mortgage a n. suit Butt for tor dit divorce orce a murder a n suicide and litigation which has extended over overa a n. period of three years In inthe Idaho Idaho Idaho Ida- Ida ho courts has come to a cl close se with witha a decision rendered b by Judge K H. t M. M Terrell in th the district court declaring de- de dec declaring de de- c claring the alleged d for forged ed mortgage the fife root of or the trouble void and that judgment of or the foreclosure beset bes be beset s set t a wide aside 01 Olit Oliver he er l' l 7 T K Exum of Pocatello owed money money to to u u. u bank In tills this city and ln in order to furnish s sc security hp mortgaged ed a a a. house home and two lots a at Lava Heft Iid Springs The property property prop prop- ert erty was ryas property and the Exum Exam sent th th mo to bank with the J Urpo ted signature re of his wife ICe on It A short time afterwards the bank foreclosed and Mrs Exum Exam came to the bank examined ex- ex the mortgage and stated that her signature had been forged Mrs Irs Exum Exton started action for divorce di divorce u- u vorce orce against her husband alleg alleging ing In the cout complaint that h had dissipated the the family family proper prop property t and forged het her name name to a mortgage Trouble Immediately broke out be- be Exum and his wife and culminated stag In the shooting of Mrs Exum by he her husband in this city on March larch 7 1023 1923 Exum committed suicide after killing his wife The guar lan of of of the five Exum children commenced action to set aside the foreclosure and the ca case o e came to trial in 1924 1931 The court dismissed the dismissed the t e c case se on a count account o 0 ol Insufficient ni In the com com- plaint The case was tuns then appealed to the supreme court of Idaho which reversed the fhe decision of the lower court The case casEl tame name back to the district court at Pocatello for trial m In in F February 1926 and Judge Terrell Terrell Terren Ter Ter- rell ren rendered hl his decision last we week l Attorney F. F of Pocatello Poca Pocatello Pocatello Poca Poca- tello represented the fife guardian g of or orthe the children children ii h the action