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Show CHARGE OF PERJURY IS MADE BY WIFE Salt Lake, Nov. 5. Walter Smith, proprietor of the Keith Emporium Cleaning and Pressing companv, spent several unhappy hours in the city jail yestorday afternoon and evening as the direct result of a charge of perjury, preferred by his wife, Lillian Lil-lian Blanche Smith. At 9.30 o'clock last night friends of Smith went to his rescue by signing a bond for $500 for his appearanco and he was released. re-leased. The charge of perjury grows out of a complaint for divorce, which Smith filed against his wife in the Third district court on October 21, last. In this complaint Smith is said to have sworn that he had been aLi-esi-dent of Utah for a period of one year whereas Mrs. Smith alleges that her husband first camo here last April. In the complaint for divorce, Smith charges his wife with desertion. Mrs. Smith said last night that her husband left her at their former homo in Mitchell. S. D., last April, with out advising her as to where he in- tended going. She heard later, however, how-ever, that he had come to Salt Lake and she followed him. After an unsatisfactory un-satisfactory interview with him, Mrs. Smith said last night, she went to the coast and remained there until June, when she again visited Smith in Salt Lake and proceeded to her home in South Dakota. About ten days ago Mrs. Smith came to Salt Lake for tho third time. She held a short Interview with her husband, she says, but failed to get any satisfactory answers to her questions ques-tions regarding his intentions toward her. She then learned of the suit for divorce and promptly obtained a complaint against Smith, In which he Is charged with pefyry for swearing that ho had been a resident of the state for one year, next preceding the filing of his complaint. |