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Show TRIES TO TAKE FORMER WIFE FROM MAN WHO TOOK HER FROM HIM .1. C. Picking and Mrs. Louise Tlllsbury were arrested at lh; Instigation of J. T. Tlllsbury Monday afternoon, charged witli a statutory offense, and thereby hangs a talc of love's labor lost. Before the present Mrs Tlllsbury met Mr. Tlllsbury. she was the wife of J. C. Picking, and after going partly through life with Picking she had met Tlllsbury and decided that she liked lilin better than her husband. In tfic course of time she wan divorced from Picking and married mar-ried to Tlllsbury, with whom she lived for a few years. According to all reports she was very happy In the company of Tlllsbury and everything was lovely until the nrrlval of her former husband, who I again fell for the charms of his former wife, and pursued the Idol of his affections af-fections with sueh ardor that the then I Mi'?. Tlllsbury began to weaken in her ! regard for Tlllsbury. j Along about this time Mr. Tlllsbury made the startling discovery, so he says, I that Picking wns picking ;ivny the. affections af-fections of Mrs. Tlllsbury. I lophm to retain re-tain the affections of his wife and at the same lime to worst Picking lu the bailie for his wife's affeetlonw, he mined away. But, nad lo relate, hi' snld llml Picking was not to be shaken so easily and followed fol-lowed the couple to Salt Lake City, In fact, according to Tlllsbury, followed some -100. miles. It was only when Tlllsbury found Picking Pick-ing paying the name ardent attention to his for m or wife, but who is now the wife of Tlllsbury. that he objected strenuously and the stronuouslty of his 'objections caused quite a crowd to gather In front of 271 West First South street Mondnv afternoon to listen to the argument be-twoun be-twoun the two men. Above, In the building build-ing was the wotnon in the ease and tlm crowd became so large that Officers Pitts. Oai"!! and Edwards were called to Ihu seeiw to prevent bloodshed between the. former luiHband and present husband. After haling all of the Interested parlies lo the police station, the battle was again (inactod before the nmused officers. Mra. TIlHburv stood In the f-ntrv of tin- room, with T!ll3bnry grasping one Jiuml ami Picking grasping the other. For a lime it looked to Ihe observers that the poor woman might be pulled to pieces, but the trouble was a erted by locking up Picking Pick-ing and Mrs. Tlllsbury in the city iall. |