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Show TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT APART. A Recital of the Troubles of the Ende Family in the District Court. The officers of the court, attorneys and spectators were considerably amused in the Third District Court this morning during the taking of evidence in the Ende case. Ende testified that he had not been a" Mormon since '69, but some time ago repented of his sins and went down into the waters of baptism for the remission remis-sion thereof; also that the old lady had threatened to set the Danites on him if he did not obey the celestial law of polygamy. po-lygamy. Mrs. Ende's evidence was to the effect that she and Ende had lived happily in the States. They joined the Mormons in the States and came on to Utah. Soon after their arrival here, Ende began to run after Mormon girls, and used to waltz them to the skating rinks, dances and surprise parties. He wanted to go into polygamy. Before her very eyes'she had seen girls on his lap playing with his beard, fondling and kissing him. She protested, and quarrels ensued, in which Ende came out first best. She then gave the Court a verbatim specimen of the obscene and profane language he had applied to her. In June, 1883, he made her turn a double somersault down a flight of stairs. In one of their quarrels Ende got a scratch on the cheek from which the blood oozed out, and when she R!JW if aha rxrirnA onr.. iU. t.! 1 , v , , " "cu anay me Biam anu kissed the spot. It tried the old lady's emotional nature to tell her story, and she shed tears copiously, copi-ously, but notwithstanding her sobs, the lawyers could not keep her from interpolating interpo-lating irrelevant remarks which made the proceedings as genuinely funny as only a Mormon divorce case can be. |