Show A mr variant client urges polygamy as a defense the heading hea fing for alimony in the dierce suit ot maria argent trim vs hyram P trim occupied a great portion of the day before judge zane yesterday this is a suit in which the wife cheges that she married her husband ia 1861 that she had been systematically ill treated by him ever since that once forced by her husband to rise from her bed eight days affer the birth of her child and as sl st him in binding up shingles that he had commanded her to lave the chouse in order that he might introduce a young gialias a polygamous wife and atiat bhe had aided the defendant in amassing property to the extent af or she asked 25 a month alimony during the pending of the suit counsel fees costs ol 01 court and finally a decree of divorce and custody of the children whitmore and kaighn represent edthe wife mr vanan appeared for the husband and for his client m ado the novel answer that no legal tai arriage had taken place and no children had ever been born as a result of any legal marriage the wife so the defendant allege had a husband living when she married him and he on his part had a wife living anen he married ier so that th ebrown marriage could not eliav veen a faful la ful one ae denied all the allegations as to polygamy cruelty etc both husband and wife went on the witness fiand yesterday end the wife said her girat husband had died in 1876 she swore that at about the time she received notice of his death and a faw weeks before she and trim being then members of the mor mon church and believing that their first marriage had not been in accordance elili celestial law celebrated a second marriage in the endowment alo defendant acore on his part that this marriage took place in 1874 two years before her first husband died judge ane in deciding the ino tiou said evidence was very unsatisfactory there could clearly be no alimony if there had been no legal marriage view of the fact that the parti eshad lived together twenty five years however and reared a family he was disposed to the woman counsel fees of in OP der that she might procure a hearing of the case on its merits the motion for alimony pen dents hie was allowed as the judge said the evidence showed she was now being maintained by the defendant the latter must pay costs of court the hearing proper which will in bolye the evidence on the date of marriage was set down for tomorrow to morrow morning at 10 sau lake herald |