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Show WIFE HIS Mil FIDS Salt Lake. April 2 -Mrs Jessica Westfall ol Sau rrancisco, againsi whom "sa'irruol divorce proceedings ".'pip IMd in the superior court of San Frartcsco yes'erday by her husband, Samuel H. Westfall, is visiting in Salt Lake C'tv at the home of E. B. frltchlow with her ndopfd drugh'er Miss Snph'a Hernok Mis Westfall has frequnTlv visited in Salt Lake and is well known here. Answering ehaiges that she decamp ed from San Francisco in Mreh with a fortune of more than $500 000 In caslj and stocks, Mrs Westfall said las' night that she took nothing but travel ling exoenses and what was her ovn pronprty "The only basis for the chaige of cruelty which he makes against me Is that I have refused to dn more than support htm for lif whih I have offered of-fered to do," s-Url Mrs Westfall The husband Ii the divorce suit fll ed yesterdav. choiced that his w'fe left "him on Marrb 1S and came to (Sal Lake City Du-'ng their nineteen years of msrrled life he said, a for tune amounting to mon? than S."00 000 had been amassed, and that when Mrs Westfall left San Francisco she took with her cash, mining stocks and deeds renresentlne the entire fortune and left her husband absolutely penniless. penni-less. Finds Esthetic Letter. On the drawing loom table of their home the day following Mrs West-fall's West-fall's departure, the husband said, he found a letter left by his wife It wat, captioned, he said. "The Unbmdemn&f of an Esthetic Soul " In part th lr-t-18 alleged to have said: "I have looked look-ed Into my soul and saw mirrored there a reflection of a higher, broader and more Ideal life, untrammeled by petty alliances, that would permit my soul to take flight on the wings of love." Rumors In San Francisco had it that Mrs. Westfall was interested In a voung attornev. S. II. D-xy. and suggestions sugges-tions were mad that there might be a love affair. These insinuations were denied last night by Mrs. Westrall who explained tlut the young lawve" was her first cousin and had handled her business affairs as well as those of her uncles and cousina living near San Francisco. Proceedings were filed shiriltan eously with the divorce suit designed to Me up a bank account of ?25.000 and to enjoin M-s. Westfall fiom transferring $75,010 shares of stock In the Yellow PIp mine. whHi arp sml to bo worth 53'10 000 and upon which the husband alleged a dividend of $15 000 vvnfe clup vosterday. WstraP declared thrt he had abiding conr" dence In his wife and therefore had deeded to her all of hih pioperty and permitted ner to have almost entire control of the common purse. |