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Show PARENTS HIE III HOME WITH MBS. SLOW ll. Young Woman Reluctantly Leaves Husband Facing Charge of Forgery. With tho return of wife No. 2 and her. parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. P. LevIs, to Redding, Cal., appears to have vanished van-ished the last chance of Burt A. Slocum, alias Bruce A. Slocum, alias J. "W. Bruce, alleged forger and bigamist, to escape prosecution upon the charge of forging the name of George A. Smllh, superintendent superin-tendent of the Rocber Roofing company, by which Slocum was empl03cd as timekeeper time-keeper at the Judge building, to a check for -?160, which he posscd upon the National Na-tional Bank of the Republic. Immediately upon his arrest here his wife wired to her parents at Redding for ?100, presumably to make restitution on the forged check. This was the llrst word Mr. and Mrs. Lewis had received of their daughter's whereabouts since her marriage mar-riage to Slocum. Instead of sending tho money they came to Salt Lake and took tearful Mrs. Slocum No. 2 back to Redding Red-ding with them. The defrauded bank. It is understood, was willing to drop the prosecution if Slocum had made good the amount of tho check, and as wife No. 2, whom he married at Oakland, Cal., twelve years ago, and by whom ho has two children. Is said not to be desirous of prosecuting him on the bigamy charge, the alloged forger and bigamist might have gone scot free, unless two or tiiree others he Is claimed to have defrauded in other parts of the country had not appeared and demanded his prosecution. Now, unless wealthy relatives. Including his father, W. R. Slocum. who Is said to live at Albany, 111 , come to his rescue, he will have' to face trial on a forgery charge, and the case against him appears to be strong, so strong. In fact, that a prison sentence stares him in the face. Slocum, representing himself lo be a well-to-do mining man, met, wooed and won wife No. 2, then Lenora Lewis, while she was a student at the Chico Normal In California, studying to be a teacher. lie went to Redding, met her parents and gained their consent. The wedding was tho social event of tho year In the Sacramento valloy, as" well as In Redding. This was In the early part of October. Mr. and Mrs. Slocum immediately left, on their honeymoon, visiting Salt Lake and Portland. About October S, perhaps a week afterward, wife No. 1, who runs a restaurant at Sacramento to maintain herself and two children, appeared upon Ihe scene. The ensuing scandal created a greater furore In social circles In that part of California than the wedding. The parents of wife No. 2 at once set out to get their daughter back, but Mrs. Slocum No. 2. who in the meantime had discovered the alleged perfidy of her husband, hus-band, but still loved and clung lo him. maintained silence as to her and her husband's whereabouts, and could not bo found, moving silently from place to place until Salt Lake was reached and the grand crash came. |