Show A AVI lIGH denver nver man given a warm reception AFTER A RUNAWAY WIFE police nad hod been warned that clyde pierce was coming over to massacre his wife and her paramour but iro ho protested he ee had no such sanguinary intentions nevertheless he was locked up arrest clyde C pierce alerce who loft left denver last night with the avowed intention of murdering hla his runaway wife who Is in the ricketts nio ketts block in salt lake city was the mes me wee received receive a by bv chief pratt yesterday from chief f farrington of danvers Den vers detective force and at once the sleuths to whom the message was revealed were all agog then to intensify interest in clyde pierces movements the associated press sent the following message that reached the newspaper offices on this circuit D denver anver april 30 10 chief calef of detective n today to day telegraphed to th chief ot or police of salt lake to prevent clyde pierce a railroad man of denver city and early arly last geelt reached it then he continued g I 1 to denver where he be saw BOW a letter sh bhe e had to a friend in which nhe mile represented that thai she aho WRO employed in a confectionery store as aa bookkeeper ind and that the she was I at t tile this ricketts ni chett block he then took the train tor for salt lake city arriving last night to ascertain through the sleuths that she had for three weeks occupied a room at that block hut but a week ago had disappeared together with her belongings BLAMES TIIE THE spiritualists pierce denies ever having mistreated her declaring that ahat a cup too ton many wa iraq his only fault ito ho expresses the belief that since she bhe united with ith the her mind has been temporarily deranged not that alone but he believes the mediums have poisoned her mind against him in d dem am 0 n 9 brating the first theory ho he calls attention att t e n tion to the fact that she is IB mo mourning u rn the death of a fi lends child w whom horn the ahr imagines drad dead because a medium bedlum told her bar it would merlh in alarca when in reality the urchin Is now the picture of health heal th lie he knows known nothing about th the u man J jameson a meson with whom his w wife ire wa was 4 opposed s u to be living accordi ng to the denver dispatch but has a d dim I 1 m recollection ol of tho the existence of such buch FL a person back in iowa mrs airs pierce had no such companion while stopping stopp lne at the ricketts block pierce took philosophically to the predicament into which he had wari wan deded and says he bc will continue the search for or the fugitive as ai soon as released he is it a mild mannered man or of 36 and of genteel appearance appeal ance and it if his errand was murder the deed was to have been accomplished with without ou t a weapon tor for the only thing rese resembling m bling one on his person was a penknife irom from murdering ills his runaway runs we V wife pierce tor for sat lake laho lost last night avowing his intention to shoot his wife life who ho he W love eloped with henry jameson Jam OBon w who h a b boarded on crded at her house and Is now living with hint him in salt lake they disappeared early in tho year mrs aira pierce la Is as ao a pretty blondo woman ot of a vivacious disposition THE tragedians RECEPTION mills message rallied the reporters and when the night express reached the rio grande depot the committee who awaited the arrival 0 of the tragedian who had been so uniquely billed was a vigilant one but pierce had bad a premonition monition that something had been concocted with which to balk his oil il lazed plans and go BO with hla his natchel he be dropped himself front the train as it slacked blacked up at third south and made tracks tor for the ricketts block at third south and state street disappointed the sleuths and re retraced their course and put tb the a ent entrance ranc e to the ricketts block under surveillance with detective paul on picket duty presently a traveler with satchel in hand band madelthia ma made deltia ilia appearance under the moonlight schedule and pierce who at first undertook to deny ills his identity was taken to police headquarters cu arters and locked up tor for the night NO BLOOD IN HIS ETE when his attention was called to the mc maage age that had been sent ont out announcing noun cIng the tragic nature of his voyage the prisoner ridiculed tile the story declaring deo larinK laring that his sole purpose was to overtake his wife and induce her to return to him to a tribune reporter lie stated that he had up to a short time ago been bee n employed as conductor on tile the street dauway in deriver denver ills wife conducted a boarding house early tho the present year lie he was taken sick and went to the howe home ot of his boyhood at kenosh kenosha Kenos hn 4 wis to recuperate while at that place lie he learned by a letter fionn oba friends that his wife had disappeared and started westward with calibo its as her destination ile he knew hw her mother who present at their marriage in waverly ift ia prime three years ago Die dionicia nicia cal and hastened haet ened to that place the runaway had not b ben an there lie took the train tor for salt like lake |