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Show JACK'S DIVORCED ; WIFE MAY TILL j 5 CERTAIN THINGS! SAIs' FRAXC1SCO. Cal.. June 10. United States District Judge M. T. Dooling ruled today thar Mrs. Maxlne DompBey might testify testi-fy to non-confidential relations In , the trial of her divorced husband, William Harrison (Jack) Demp- sey, world's heavyweight champion cham-pion on a draft evasion charge. Yesterday the court barred Mrs. Dempsey's testimony as to her confidential marital rolationn. Judge Dooling announced "there would be no general rule as to what was non-confldentlal matter and the questions which It gives rise to will be settled as they arise." Following this statement j.he prosecution ' questioned Mrs. Dompsey regarding her vJslfa with her husband and alone to various parte of the country. Tho defense was overruled when it objected to a question as to what Dempsey contributed to Mrs. Dempsey's support from July to November. iai7, during which period they were separated, ac- ' cording to her testimony. She testified to have received a total of $60. She testified she returned to Salt Lake City at Dempsey's behest be-hest and they came to San Francisco Fran-cisco togethci. Hero she practicod her calling as, a woman of the underworld, according to her testimony tes-timony and once Dempsey struck her in tho jaw because she did not bring him enough money to satisfy satis-fy him. Mrs. Dempsey said that at various vari-ous times she was In the underworld, under-world, of Pasco, Spokane and 'a-' 'a-' klma. Wash., and Cairo, 111. She also mentioned having- been In sulida. Colo., and Salt Lake City. |