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Show I MRS. TUFTS I TELLSSTORY Husband Deserts, Marries Mar-ries Another Woman-Is Woman-Is Now in Jail. Chicago. Dec. 18. Mrs. Mary K. lurts who says Bhe was desorted uglier ug-lier huaband, Gorham Tufts, former missionary to India, "love god" ano miracle worker," began tho recitci or tho Btory of her desertion by he. fiusband in Liverpool, In July, 190b beforo Judge McKlnlev today. Mrs. Tufie, In seeking to have set aside the dlvorco granted her huBbsno in t ebruary, 1910, after he had given alleged falBo testimony that she deserted de-serted him in August, 1904, while she was at hlB missionary station In the Himalaya mountains, on tho border of Nepaul and Thibet In India. Tufts In Jail. ; iuus ib now m Jail at Los Angclos awaiting tho disposition of an appeal Afc to the upper courtB from a decision y . finding him guilty of misappropriating tl $90,000 belonging to hlo second wife, lM , Mrs. Jennie Scrnnton Roc, a wealthy :Tw , ranch owner. !J 1 Tufts, as well ns Mrs. Roe, are rep- rui resented by counsel In the presem ig, hearing. MrB Roo Is aiding Mrs fjpj Tufts in her fight. While giving her Jg testimony Mrs Tufts frcquontlv sob- ggj bed. ct "1 u"aB married to Mr. Tufts here IW In Chicago February 28, 1895." she J5fl began, In answer to questions by her counsel. "My husband was conducting a rescue home at the time. ' Opened Bible School. "In 1001 both of us wont to India. In Calcutta ho opened a Bible school and orphanage." "Mr. Tuft3, In his deposition, says you left him in India Was it your Intention to desert him at that time?" "No, and he knew It was not my Intention." she said. Mrs Tufts declared that in July. 1906, she went with him from India to a small station near Liverpool, England. Eng-land. Deserted In 1906. "He deserted me July 13, 1906. and returned to America," Mrs. Tufts testified. "I had only a, quarter when he loft me in the Young Women's Christian association In Liverpool." "What reason did he give for not taking you with him to America?" -rj "He sold ho did not have fundi ?E enough, but I know ho could .borrow itjE' the money," Mrs. Tufts salda. t ,ilw Ten Years In Aeylum. ftar. Between the time her husband left iijip her and July, 1909, she worked and flijr 3topped at public Institutions tt "workhouses," she termed them and Mt. was more than ten years an inmate cf ftjm the Insane asylum at Liverpool. ji She finally returned to America In r-Jf "uly, 1909, with a sister who had -3fi pone to England for her, and went to M : Washington, D. C. to live. She Is now ' i Chicago reeldcnt and supports her- )g lelf by working as n nurse. |