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Show HUSBAND OF BOTH iTU CH Strange Case of Most Repulsive Type of Polygamy Revealed in St. Joseph. WIFE COMPELLED HUSBAND TO MARRY HER DAUGHTER Young Woman Fatally Wounds Man, Whom She Believed Intended In-tended Desertion. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Pel). M. In tho probably fatal shooting hero today of William Smith, a. carpenter, there came to light ouo of thc strangest entanglements en-tanglements three persons ever lived uu-der. uu-der. A girl 22 years old, who shot Smith, avers to thc police po-lice that sho married him, knowing know-ing that her mother was already his legal wifo. The throo have lived for years together, tho man as thc husband of both. ' Thc Hbooting this afternoon occurred over the sending of a comic valentine. The girl, who styles herself Mrs. Cora Smith, while her mother is known by i tho name of Mrs. William Smith, Bent tho carpenter a comic valentine. Smith grew angrj' whon ho received it aud. after packing up kis clothes, started to leavo tho house. Tho girl's mother says sho married Smith in 1H02. Her daughter was by a iormpr husband. A year after their marriage, sho says, she found that her husband had impropor relations with hf-r daughter. She mado him marry thc girl, sho says, without first securing a divorce. Tho girl and husband both bear out tho storv. Mrs. Cora Smith, who shot her husband, hus-band, was placed under arrest by the police. Sho will bo held pending Smith 's condition. |