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Show LITTLE'S DEATH BARES HIS POLYGAMOUS LIFE SpociaJ to Tho Tribune. OGDEN. Sept. 5 It has developed In the past few days that William H. Little, tho aged proprietor of the Central hotel, who died suddenly while sitting In a chair In his own hostelry on Tuesday. August 27. and who was the father of cloven children, was also the husband of two wives, both of whom are living. Also that he was a Mormon, and. of course, a polygamlst. He was a native of the South and was converted to the Mormon folth and hronght his first famllv here, becoming be-coming an active member o'f the Utah church In time he took unto himself another an-other wife, and she bore him children. Some years since he was called on a. mission of two years' duration to serve In the Southern States, and took with him, not his second, but his firot wife, who wns known in the South, but at tho expiration of his service, it Is said, he left his first wife there, and practically abandoned her. Tho second wife was in Ogden and Is now In possession of the lease of the Cenlrul hotel, with Its fumlturo, and Is conducting the business, and proposes to continue in its conduct nnd assert and test her rights, as the widow of Little. But the first, the legal wife, Is said to be In Ogden, and a contest for whatever estate Little left Is expected. Each wife will maintain the fight for hersolf nnd her children, but the records of the Utah courts show that a plural wife has no legal le-gal rights in this State. |