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Show MENACE TO SOCIETY. Sheriff Emery's Action Peimittiug Wedding of Convicts Denounced. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, March IC. A Weber county olllclal Y.'ho has had much to do with hc handllnc of rrlmlnal for a number of years, ."peaking of the Minerva Reeves cmpc nnd the marrlaRe of thU younr woman to another convict In the Salt I-nko county Jail last Thursday, whllo both of them were eervInK nonlences. denounced de-nounced the act a not only Improper but as a menace to poclety rnd nn Insult to tho sentlmnn;s of respectable rtoplo .vho dcelro the supprcftlon of criminals. The sumo ofllclal haa knon'n the Reeves Klrl from Infancy and has known and had ofllclal business with members of her family for years. 'Minerva Reeves was born a criminal." fuld he. "Her father wan a criminal; her brothers broth-ers are criminal?, and they havo cost this county a great deal of mcney." Speaking of Eva Curtis Ir tho rame collection, collec-tion, this cfllctr stated that aho had a brother to dlo In tho Utah penltentlnry. and nt the tam.3 time she and iwo of her brother wure lnrruvtis of th6 Itoform i?chool. Both tho brothers broth-ers havo tlnce craduated Into olhi;r pnal In-ttltutlons. In-ttltutlons. while the Curtis rlrl has developed abnormal capacity for crime. |