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Show TREAT ME ROUGH' IS HER COMPLAINT, HUBBY GETS DECREE! j Alleged failuro of William Van Alfen to play the- "cave man" and knock his wife down frequently, caused the love of the woman to cool to such an extent that she began search for a "rougher mate". This was the testimony adduced in the suit for divorce of Mr. Van Alfen against Rosetta Van Alfen before Judge A. W. Agee in the district court. At the completion of the testimony, which included many unusual features, fea-tures, Judge Agee granted Van Alfen a decree of divorce. Mr. Van Alfen testified that he met his wife whi'o she was working work-ing at the Dee hospital and that shortly after they were wed she told him she did not love him. but married him to got released from the Industrial school under whose uimm-violnn clip wns nmnlnvnd. She frequently told him. Mr. Van Alfen said, she loved another man. in Salt Lake. Smoking cigarotsand drinking liquor when she could obtain It were some of her habits. Mr. Van Alfen testified, and at times she begged him to permit her to use "dope." Mr. Van Alfen's sister testified . that Van Alfen's wife told her she would like him much better if he would "knock her down once in a while, instead of being so good to her." She further testified that the woman declared she had a man in Salt Lake whom she loved and intended to marry. According to tho witness Mrs. Van Alfen boasted that all she had to do to make her husband angry was to smoke a cigaret in his presence. Following the testimony a. decree de-cree of divorce was immediately awarded Mr. Van Alfen by Judge Agec. |