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Show LIVED THREE YEARS IN MM Mother and Daughter by Prior Marriage Wives of ' ' Same Man ' St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 14. In the shooting, which Is expected to result fatally, of William Smith, a carpenter, here today, there caroe to light one of the strangest entanglements three persons per-sons ever lived under. A girl twenty-two twenty-two years old, who shot Smith, avers to the police that she married him, knowing that her mother wns already .his. legal wife.- The three have lived for years together, the man as the husband hus-band of both. The shooting this afternoon occurred over the sending of a comic valentine. The girl, who styles herself Mrs. Cora Smith while her mother Is known by the name of Mrs. William Smith sent the carpenter a comic valentine. Smith grew angry when he received it, and after picking up his clothes, started to leave the house. Thinking he was going go-ing to desert her, the girl shot him. "The' girl's mother says she married Smith In 1902. Her daughter was by a former husband. A year later, she says, she found her husband had had improper relations with her daughter. She sajs 6he compelled him to marry the girl without first securing a divorce. di-vorce. The man and girl bear out the story. |