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Show IT BROKE HER HEART. A Pathetic KpfMMle KnacUd at the Conclu-iion Conclu-iion ufa .ninK Husband's Conviction Convic-tion wf Adultery. It was a touching scene. All day long, the distracted young mother and wife of Luther Dalrymp'.e had been pacing the dismal hallways of the gloomy old Wasatch block, listeuing for tho footfalls foot-falls of fate, and carrying her crooning 1 alio to which she hummed the fragments of some old song that came floating back through the path of time. She grasped at every hope and appealed to enoh witness who came tripping from the chamber for soma assuranca The evidence was finally concluded, the arguments by District Attorney At-torney Varian and Mr. Putnam were con-eluded. con-eluded. The jury was instructed and retired. The dispairinf mother saw them as they passed out a.iu -..ilb eyoo full of expression, anil tears made a last silent apne U to them for the father of the babe that c ioed in her arms. In the court chamber still sat Charlotte Mills, the woman wronged in girlhood, tho woman scorned. N' once had she relented. She was avenging a step that had left her life an eternal wreck, her babe disgraced. She watched the train move from the jury box and with deeper zeal Watched its retain. re-tain. Only a few minutes elapsed until the verdict was placed iu the bands of the clerk. "We the jury tind tot defendant guilly, as c harged iu the indictment. "So say we all." Yet sullen, and stern undemonstralive, ! Charlotte produced her gloves and, pulling them on, kissed her mother, took up the boy babe that chuckled iu her fae and tripped from the chamber, followed by her fiiends. Then- was another picture, however. Staggered by the verdict, the- -j ouug wife reeled and then wrung her hands in grief. Tears finally came to woe's relief, aud, a bearUhroken woman, her hatband led her from tiie court room. What a sad, sad unec-tacle unec-tacle it was. Dalrymple will be sentenced under the penalty for adultery on Salurdav next. |