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Show GXUKDS OF CRUELTY AND PERSECUTION BY IIS Wl?3 - ' ; . . ' " Former Senator Files a "Cross -Complaint In Which Jle Declares His Business and Political V Prospects Are Ruined. fx ' ' ' ? 4 GROUNDS OF COMPLAINT -' IN BROWN" DIVORCE. ' '.. . 4- In his cross-complaint asking divorce from his- wife, Isabel Cameron Brown, former Senator Arthur Brown alleges: If Cruelty. -f 4- Persecution. -f rf Threats to poison. , False arrest. -f Theft of personal property. " 4- Hiring of newspapers to parade f her case. The troubles In the Brown family have become still more involved by the filing of an answer and a cross-complaint by the former Senator against his wife, and by the filing by Mrs. Isabel Isa-bel Cameron Brown of an order to show cause why he should not pay the $150 temporary alimony to his wife as directed di-rected by the court. ' In his answer, the Senator makes a general denial to the allegations set forth in his wife's complaint for separate separ-ate maintenance, and by way of counj ter-claim he files a suit for divorce on the ground of cruelty. ,The complaint starts out by saying that the defendant and the plaintiff were married in Omaha in 1881; and that the defendant has been engaged since 1864 in the practice of law, for fifteen years in Michigan and twenty-hree. twenty-hree. years in. Utah and adjoining ' fnateind"tia5 aseqtrfred srwtde-repnta-. tlon and, high standing in his profession. profes-sion. Ground of Complaint. In the second paragraph of the cross-complaint, cross-complaint, the Senator alleges for cause of divorce, "that the said plaintiff f ox . several years past has been guilty of extreme cruelty toward the said defendant, de-fendant, to the extent of causing great mental anguish to him, the said defendant. de-fendant. That the said acts of cruelty consist of CONSTANT FAULT-FINDING AND CONTINUOUS INSULT for a number of years, and mingled with It THREATS TO INJURE BODILY AND PHYSICALLY the said defendant." defend-ant." Poison Threat Alleged. It is next alleged by the former Senator Sena-tor that in September. 1901, the plaintiff threatened and said "that she COULD POISON the said defendant WITHOUT WITH-OUT THE LEAST COMPUNCTION OF CONSCIENCE, and Jhat the only reason she lived with said defendant was to GET WHAT LITTLE MONEY HE HAD for he wouldn't live long." Another time, it is alleged in this cross-complaint, cross-complaint, she said she had often felt like poisoning the defendant, and could dp It without the least regret, but she did not want to be punished for such a thing. Charges Theft. In June, 1902, he complains that the plaintiff went to a room occupied by the defendant, "and carried away, stole and disposed of furniture and personal - property," belonging to the defendant, .including his personal clothing; that during the last three months 6he fre-1 fre-1 quently entered the private office of the (I, defendant, which is a part of the law "bambers of the firm of Brown & Ilen-' Ilen-' derson, "and abstracted, stole and took '"away" wearing apparel and other personal per-sonal property belonging to the defendant. de-fendant. Angry Passions. . The next allegation refers to the plaintiff as being very intemperate in on the slightest occasion she "GIVES ! on the slightest occasion she GIVES VENT TO THE MOST ABUSIVE LANGUAGE and applies the vilest epithets epi-thets to defendant." It is stated that on or about August. 1902. she wrote a letter to their soa. Max Brown, 20 years of age, "saying the defendant was as craxy as a loon and charging defendant de-fendant with being a drunkard, and having lost all his manhood and having lost the respect of all his friends, the community and everyone else"; that on another occasion she CHARGED HIM WITH BEING A SOT, and predicted he would die in the gutter in a short time. . Blasted Political Hopes. "That by reason of the aforesaid acts, the said plaintiff has very much injured tlte business and standing and political prospects of said defendant to the extent ex-tent that 6he has prevented him from ASPIRING TO THE OFFICE OF UNITED STATES SENATOR. to Which office he had once theretofore been elected and has caused the defendant defend-ant great sorrow, humiliation and anguish." an-guish." These acts and charges on the part of the plaintiff, he says, were without cause. Justification or provocation. provo-cation. . Persecuted In Court. ' By way of further cause of action, the defendant-alleges that during t(he past three . months the plaintiff has constantly and persistently persecuted the defendant with most vicious at-i at-i tacks. In courts of Justice and in the V newspapers; that the complaints J on JWhlch she has attempted to prosecute him were false and malicious; "that on the -29th day of September, 1902. she falsely and maliciously and wilfully ! 1 |