Show PARSONS IS IS ENTITLED TO 10 TOI I IDE DECREE So Says Judge Morse in inDecision inDe- inDe Decision Decision De De- in the CeleBrated Cele- Cele grated Case A decree of divorce was granted in short order last night to C. C C. C Parsons by Judge C W. W Morse of the district court after attorneys had finished their argument argument ment The suit was originally brought by Mrs Jennie B. B parsons for separate maintenance and the decree was granted on the counter claim of Mr Parsons in which desertion was charged The judge needed no time to consider but iut rendered his decision immediately Mrs Parsons will receive a month for six months of the life of the Interlocutory interlocutory interlocutory tory decree after which she and her daughter will wUl be dependent on whatever Mr Parsons may choose to allow them j The Tho case has been before Judge Morse for a week Letters from Mrs Parsons to sn her lh h husband 1 telling ll strange ro roe roO e and nf fantastical fantastical fan fan- t fa l tales of f t the Infatuation O of foreign r noblemen and celebrities for Miss Parsons Par Par- sons have been features of the trial One of these a wholly imaginary love affair with d' d the great Italian poet and duel with the count of Turin a scion of the royal family of Italy iThe rhe he information in these letters It came caine out in the evidence came through telepathic tele- tele communications and Judge Morse does oes not hesitate to refer to them as evidence of a deranged mind Mr Parsons Is a well known lawyer and hIs wife and daughter have been prominent prominent prominent nent socially In Denver and Salt Lake City Years ago Mr Parsons obtained a divorce but remarried his wife in 1901 for the sake of the daughter Four months after the marriage he allowed them to go to Europe where they re remaIned remained remained re- re for three years yeara in m spite of his protests During all this time Mrs Parsons Parsons Par Par- sons eons was trying to find a titled h husband for tor her daughter to whom she referred as having baying an an open soul Both mother and daughter turned against the father during this trip and on their return would not speak to him Parsons broke with her father finally when he refused to pay the expenses expenses expenses ex ex- ex- ex of a Roman Catholic mission in inthe inthe inthe the west end of Denver the girl having ha been converted to that faith while abroad Sums Up Evi Evidence Evidente en e. e Judge Morse in giving gling judgment sums up lip the evidence as follows I The evidence In the case shows clearly that while at the time of the marriage It was largely one of convenience nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless nev nev- the relations of the parties were pleasant and without any particular friction friction fric trio tion lion until after alter February 1903 when Mrs Parsons was ill m of appendicitis and an op operation operation operation op- op took tool place After this time Mr 1 Parsons requested his wife and daughter to return home While the letters followIng following fol fol- fol- fol lowing owing were not perhaps cordial nothing of any special moment occurred until September 1903 At this time Mrs ParSons Parsons Parsons Par Par- sons charged her husband with infidelity and improper conduct There seems to tobe tobe tobe be absolutely no evidence of any kind to support this charge or upon which Mrs Parsons could reasonably have based such a belief f I Following this letter there was little or 05 no iiO correspondence until May 1904 at whIch t time Mrs Parsons repeated the charge in two different letters the last laston laston on on May 31 i. i 1904 During ur t the month of June Mrs Parsons r on sent t several ve r tele- tele el grams trams She claimed that some were not answered The evidence shows that all cables were promptly answered and every every ev- ev ery cry ery demand for money was promptly complied with finally ally Gets Action Mr Mr Parsons had frequently requested tier to return home and she had bad refused to return as he requested until about July 1 1 1904 At this time he suggested as a last resort that pet perhaps she de desired desired desired de- de sired a divorce This suggestion he made In one letter and in a second letter following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing owing within a day or two he said again Perhaps you desire a divorce This would be another chapter in our romance Immediately upon receiving these letters letters letters let let- Mrs Parsons wired for money to return home She stated upon the stand that she intended to return home because she ehe feared that Mr Parsons might act upon his suggestion of a a. divorce iOn feOn On her return to America she went at once to Denver to the Brown Mr r Parsons was at that time on his Iwa way iway from Salt Lake to Denver Within an hour after his arrival he called at the Brown Palace hotel where she was regIstered reg- reg and at the interview was met with abuse charges of infidelity and ordered ordered ordered or or- dered from her apartments The conduct of Mrs Parsons at this time coupled with previous conduct amounted to an abandonment and desertion desertion desertion de de- de- de of her husband and since that date she has had no communication with him and has made no effort at I There was no act of Mr Parsons which justified such conduct and not a particle of excuse because of anything he had said or done which could explain or palliate her treatment Her fc Her conduct since shows no effect upon her part to effect a compromise or reconciliation Perhaps Was Irrational The treatment which she accorded her husband entitled him to a divorce unless her mind at the tho time was disordered and deranged While there has been no suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- until near the close of the argument argument ment meat on the part of the plaintiff that she was suffering from disordered mind still the court from the evidence might be uncertain or entertain some doubt as to Mrs Parsons's condition She may have been suffering from the physical state in which she then was or may have been affected from some other reason However upon the witness stand she asserts that now some five years later I she still believes the charges h to tobe be true and still entertains lit ln the same abhorrence h r for her husband At the present she is clearly rational and her mind Is not af af- af- af p Judgment Is that the complaint should be e dismissed and the defendant awarded a decree of divorce |