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Show THE HILTON SCANDAL. The withdrawal by Mrs. Hilton of her complaint com-plaint to suit for divorce strikes us like the final act of about as nasty a farce as the public has been called to witness for a long time. It all looks to us as though Hilton took a younger sister of his wife to California and was probably married to her there by some good Saintly Elder; that they lived together in Los Angeles until they feared arrest; that there quarters quar-ters were found for the plural wife and Hilton returned re-turned to Utah. That the suit for divorce was entered en-tered to protect Hilton and his plural wife in case of their arrest; that, had. that happened the suit would, if necessary, have been pressed to a conclusion con-clusion so that Hilton might have escaped the penitentiary by marrying the younger woman; that when the young woman was securely hidden, the occasion for the suit ceased to bq imperative and it was withdrawn; that the legal wife and her mother knew all about it from the first, that the bluff of a divorce suit was merely to protect the culprits, that Hilton's wife and her mother were from th,e first co-conspirators to accomplish a polygamous marriage, and at the same time to protect the culprits until the excitement should H subside. H We think the above jis correct, because no H other hypothesis is tenable and of such is our H kingdom. q jH |