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Show A FILTHY CASE, The Domestic Infelicities of Mr. aud Mrs. Haight. UNBECOMING CONDUCT On th Part of Both Husband, and Wife-No Wife-No Good. Results From theAlringrof Their Troubles in Court The "M.oon-Bhiners" "M.oon-Bhiners" riead Not Guilty-Other Business. Busi-ness. The long drawn out town of Vernal case was bronaht tn . a lna loot lng in the First District court and Judge King took the Bame under advisement. ad-visement. The next business taken up was divorce di-vorce proceedings between Olive J. Haight and George B. Haight of Vernal. Ver-nal. Mrs. Haight filed complaint for divorce alleging cruelty and adultery. The husband filed a cross complaint also alleging adultery and the evidence as it progresses before Judge King, develops devel-ops a very dirty and disgusting mesa. Mrs. Haight undertakes to prove that her husband committed adultery with one Miss Jackson whom she would seem to acccuse of having been "at the Fort" on "business (?)" and was driven away from there by the officers. Mr. Haight undertakes to prove that . his wife gadded about between be-tween Fort Du Chesne and Ouray and at other places and has committed adultery with one Dr. Booth and di-yera di-yera other people. Witnesses for the husband aBHert that they saw the wife in the act of committinz adultery with Dr Booth. The case was tried behind closed doors and well it might be. If exact justise were done it would sesm that both parties ought to be taken before the grand juiy. The plaint ff is a fair looking little woman who has, to say the least.been yery indiscreet in-discreet in her actions with men other than her husband, particularly a married mar-ried man named Wooaard, another named St. Isabell as well as Dr. Booth. She has a little child, a son 2-yars-old and altogether it is a sad sad case. Tt e two cannot possibly live together. The father is a man fairly well fixed finan cially. The mother is frail and suffers much with ill health. It has developed deve-loped in the case that her conduct with reepect to her child would lead to t"e conclusion that sne is not overly well stocked with love and affection for her child. She has none for her husband, but has for Weodard. The husband it seems has been paying his attentions to Miss Jackson. It is a confused mess and hard to determine which should have custody of the child. The judge in summing up said that the evidence had not been such as to convict con-vict Mr. Haight beyond a reaeonable doubt of having committed adultery with Miss Jackson. He had been unkind un-kind with his wife at times, but she has provoked much of that unkindnesB by her undiscreet conduct. As to the wife she has n t been proven guilty of having committed adultery with Mr Isabel!, JLrs. Jackson and Mrs. Pat-ton Pat-ton testify to haying seen her and Dr. Buoth in the act. Hiss - Jackson is interested in-terested in the result of the case and her evidence must be taken with considerable con-siderable allowance. Mrs. Patton's etory and Miss Jackson's agree as to the fact, but vary widely in the details. There is a doubt in the court's mind aa to the truth of it,nnder all the circumstances. Decree of divorce di-vorce was not granted, but the case was dismissed at defendant's cost. Th Doctor Booth in the case is a man past eixty years of age, yery swarthy and with rather a treacherous eye in his head. D. D. Houtz, attorney attor-ney for Mr. Haight, in his argument, turned to the doctoi and denounced him most scathingly as a lecherous beast worthy of the contempt of all men. The case of the People vs. John Swasey of Castle Gate, accused of attempted at-tempted rape was or1rred dismissed on rn-tion of the prosecuting attorney, it appearing that convictioa could not be had. The Joseph City "moonshiners" appeared ap-peared in court this morning and pleaded not guilty. They bath are now out on bonds, |