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Show GIRL IS TRICKED INTO A FALSE MARRIAGE Outrage Perpetrated Upon a Yeung Weman. IS DESERTED BY A BRUTE Bogus Certificate and Justice of Peace in the Gams. Mrs. William Cony Tells the Police a Story of Duplicity and Infamy Hard to Believe. A complaint which Illustrates some ot thf depths of human villainy and at the same time calls attention to some of the peculiarities of the law, was made to Judge C. B. Diehl yesterday and , by him referred to Deputy County 'Attorney Smith. , AANTS..ni3R HUSBAND BACK. The complainant was. a pretty and mod-I mod-I est little brown-eyed girl who gave her name as Mrs Willinm Corry. (She be-I be-I Moved that she had been tricked Into a false marrlaRO and abandoned by her supposed husband'. Sho desired that something some-thing bo done to blin the man back to her, but was averse lo any action which would result In the punishment he so richly deserves. Owing to certain legal technicalities the County Attorney was unable to suggest a remedy and tho little woman was compelled lo leave his office with scant encouragement. I SIHD ACCRPTED HIM. Her story is that she camo to Salt Lake from Coloi-ido nearly two years ago and secured employment ns a waitress. Her home was with a family on the west s-idc. Some eight months aso she became .acquainted with Corry, who Is a plumber by trade. He paid attention to her for two months and then proposed marriage. The girl accepted lnm. On the date set for tho wedding Corry procured what purported pur-ported to bo a marriage license. Tho bride-to-lx) knew little of legal forms and, when she saw that the license was filled out on a printed blank she took It for granled that it was all right. BOGUS JUSTICE ON HAND. i Later a man, supposedly a friend of her lover, camo to tho house and waa introduced intro-duced as a Justico of the Peace. This man went through the form of a ceremony and the girl hnd no doubt that sho was ! the legal wife of Corry. The couplo rented furnisned rooms and wont to housekeeping. housekeep-ing. Corry earned good wages, wao very kind to his wife and the succeeding months were a period of unbroken happiness happi-ness for her. "We were too happy," sho said jestcr-day; jestcr-day; "it could not last." HOW THE SHOCK CAME. The awakening was a bitter one. On the evening on January 12th Mrs. Corn-' was sitting alone In ono of her two rooms whon alio heard someone enter tho other. "W'lth burglars in mind pho sat trembling. Flnaliy sho could Htand tho suspense no longer and, picking up an Iron poker, went into the kitchen. Thero she found hr husband and a male frte.nd stealthily attempting at-tempting to remove Corry's trunk. HE RAN AWAY FROM TIER. As she entered tho room tho two men i-an out tho door "1 know it was my husband," she said In telling of the. Incident, Inci-dent, "and It almoat broke my heart thnt ho should run away from me. 1 r.ui after af-ter him screaming at the top of my voice, for nearly throe blocks, and that Is tho laPt I remember." When sho fell unconscious some of the pooplo from tho houso where sho lived carried her home. HAD A WIFE AND BABY. Corry's explanation camo later. Ho admitted ad-mitted with tears and self-reproaches that he hnd a wife and baby In Iowa, and that both marrlaRO license and Justice, of tho .pence wore frauds. He wild that he hnd received word that his baby was verv ill, ami felt that ho must return to his other home. POOR GIRL LEFT ALONE. Tho girl was so overcome by thin confession con-fession that she, could olYr no rdntanco to his departure, and he romoved hla trunk and disappeared on Wf dnesdn v. a week ago, leaving hor cntltely without means. To mnko her situation more dls-trc.iHlnK dls-trc.iHlnK and Corry's action more culpable, she is far on the way toward matornltv. In tolling hor snd narrative Mrs. CoVrv hMrayod a lingering fondns for tho anin who had wronged hor, and seemed more anxious to sec than lo prosecute him. STRANGE LEGAL STATUS. The legal statu of Mr. Corry Is problematical. prob-lematical. If the man wan free to marrv nt tho time of the ceremony, attorneys agree, the marriage wus binding even though tho license was bogr.B nnd tho 'Justice' a fraud; If he wns already married, mar-ried, however, the later ceremony js void and escapes b?lng bigamous only btcauso It wns performed by an unauthorized person. per-son. Even If Corry should come back to Utah it would be all but In possible to convict him of any crime. The law proscribes no penalty for procuring a fraudulent marriage, mar-riage, although the percou who pretends lo officiate may be given three years In tho pcnltontiary and a $1000 fine. Corry couhL.nct be convicted of adultery, because be-cause there no evidence- boy on d the i confession of his wife. Tho same dlfficul-j dlfficul-j ty would appear If ho were charged with seduction, because In tho absence of proof of his former marriage Iho Slate would bo nt a loss to show thnt his relations with his Salt Lake wife were Illicit. In viow of those obstacles and Mrs. Corry's evident reluctance to prosecute. Mr. Smith declined to take any further steps in the matwr. |