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Show STEED DIVORCE CASE IS CLOSED Judge Takes Decision Under Un-der Advisement After Sensational Trial With rebuttal testimony completed late yesterday afternoon, the divorce J case of Ezra V. Stc-ed, Davis county farmer, against his wife, Eva C. Steed, was submitted to Judgo Ooorgo S. Barker by eounse: without argument. Judge fiftrker announced that ho A: vud ( ..o the case und"i- advisement Si until Monday morning nt o'clock. when he will rnd i his decision or may, at that tlm if requested, hear arguments regarding property settlement settle-ment in the case. I I The Steed case, which has occupied ;jj nearly a week in the court, and which r !m lias brought out ninny astonishing al-i al-i I legations of cruelty on the part of both i' ' husband and wire, has been hotly con- tested throughout and frequent tlls- , i ,' plays of bitterness have crept into the hearing. REBLTTVL 11 VESS K ,, ' Mrs. Eliza Childs. mother of Mrs. ' 'a i Steed, who resides near the Sted farni , jl i; v, as a rebuttal witness yesterday nft- ! i ernoon and denied that she had given certain testimony at a trial in Frftm-ington Frftm-ington when two farm hand" employed ;j by Stped were rhnrercd with having i"l acted In an offensive manner toward I I ' the farmer's wife Mrs. Childs denied that she testified at the hearing that sho hid behind tlie door In the Steed home and heard f John Hard in on, one of the men, say p ' j an oath before her daughter. She lj ,. i ' also denied that slie had testified that ff H the hired man leered an laughed at ' Mrs stteed. " j .T. E. Woods, Justice of the peace at Farmlnglon. took the stand a few mln-' mln-' utcs later and declared that Mrs. Chlldfl hod given this testimony at the . Farmington hearing. It was also , 1 1 brought out that the farm hands were acquitted of the charge of offensive conduct. DENIES CHARGE On the witness stand earlier in the day Mrs. Childs emphatically denied I that she had inflicted a cut on hor.j daughter's head with a knife to makoi it appear that Mr steed had attacked !J j her. Mr Steed had made this declara- 'n 1 i tion when on the witness stand during ' thn . , a I- I BATH ROOM INCIDENT Mr. Steed was also called to the I witness stand on rebuttal Just before losing of the case late yesterday and toW about the Instance in which hla J wife had declared that he broke the fastenings on the bathroom door while she was bathing and Invited In the J farm hands Mr. Steed said that he came to the house at 11 o'clock on the night of October Oc-tober 22. 1921, after having been Otl1 working on irrigation ditches and tried to ret Into the bathroom. He assert-i assert-i .) that when he rapped at the door his wife would not unlock the door, and after he had implored her to let him in she yelled, "go and sleep with your damned bums," meaning tho farm hands. The husband said he then forced the door open, but found that his wife had climbed through the window and entered en-tered the house through tne door. MAKES DENIALS Mr Steed denied under questioning that following an altcrcattlon with his wife on tho night or ijctobcr 1, 1321, "he met Mr. Childs, his fathor-in-law the next morning and told him that j lie had "smashed Mrs. Steed." 11- .iir,o denied that one night he wrapped the bed clothes around him and pushed Mrs. Steed out of bed. At no time did he turn z hose upon Ida wife, he asserted. He further declared that he had not made the statement. "I do not care a d for you. I'll get a divorce and ou and jour children will not gc-t a red cent." The husband testified that at n time he had entered the bed room of his wife, pulled down the bed clothes and struck her. UNTKIK HF SAYS Further, he alleged that testimony fit his wife that he had manufactured I whisky upon the. farm, had been ln- nvloot -n1 ,-illirl lit.- t'l A tin nmi I was untrue. Several witnesses testified that they had never Keen Mr. Steed take a drlnl: r bays liquor about the farm. Th:s testimony came from farm hand:; ami neighbors. The courtroom was almost crowded to capacity yesterday afternoon with apectators. The rare wa.i completed shortly after 4 o'clock. A. E. PrMt and W H. Reeder, Jr represent Mr. Steed In the case, whlh-Joseph whlh-Joseph Chez and Royal Douglas represent rep-resent the woman. |