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Show DE WEE5E DECLARES PHOTDGRAPH FAKE Angry When Shown Picture Purporting to Be That of Wife. DEPENDING ON ALIBI Prisoner States Intention tc Stay Non-committal for the Present. P'or the first time stride he has been in custody from .Saturday, Dece mher 9, when he. surrendered In Chicago :md confessed con-fessed to burglary in un effort to prove an a U hi lor the murder of his wife at 4r..rji, Second K.'ist sired. Salt Lake, on Hepteinher 2L' - I Ii iw;i rd I"1 Weese showed consldcru hl signs of anger yesterday. lie was shown the picture supposed to be 1 hat of his wife which appeared In a morning paper yesterday. The news-par'cr news-par'cr said tliiii It was a picturo of Mrs. 1'.. U'eerr. De, Vi;i-sf, nhoitly after being arrested, declared that l he police would find a Photograph of Ids wife In fi suitcase he 5iad left In Denver. When the detectives who brought Pe Weese from Chicago rea.ched Honvv Saturday the suite. ise was opened. ! did not contain a picture. pic-ture. Chief Sharp III. A few hours after returning to Salt Lake Sunday, Joseph C Sharp, chief of detectives, who, with Herbert Lcichter, brought Ue Wi-cso to Salt I-ake, was taken ill. lie was much better yesterday and will he hark (it work today. With a view to det erniini ng speedily If the n ewspa per plet u re was that of Mrs. He AV'eese, .1. Parley White, chief of police, and Detective Herbert IJeliter yesterday yes-terday tnnk Pe Weese to Mr. Sharp's home, where the pk'turo was shown to 1'e Weese. ,,-Is t hat the picture of your wife?" asked Chief White. "II most certainly is not," emphatically asserted IV Weese. "Have you ever seen this picture or any tike it before?" queried the chief. "I have not," he replied. "This picture, alleged to he that of my wife," added 1 e "Weese. "is a dirty fake. It does not even in the slighest degree resemble re-semble her." Explanation Is Made. Pe Weese was asked how be accounted for a picture of bis late wife, supposed to be in the suitcase, not being there. He said that be evidently made a mistake and that it must have been put in one of the trunks which he shipped from Reno to New York a day previous to himself and wife coming to Salt Lake. After being questioned regarding the picture. He Weese was observed to be trembling considerably. lie bit his lip find clenched his fists. He declared that ho was disappointed in not viewing the picture of his wife, whom be loved most dearly, he said. The chief mollified De Weese by saying say-ing that there was now a real picture on the way to police headquarters and that It would be shown to him immediately immediate-ly upon its arrival. Hopes to Prove Alibi. Following the trip to Sharp's home. De Weese was again housed in hie cell in Holltary confinement. He showed that he Is suffering mentally from the position In ; which he is placed. He admitted that the Bit nation was a serious one for him, but said he thought he would be able to prove an alibi. De Weese was asked the folio wins direct di-rect question hy Detective Lelchter yesterday. yes-terday. "Did you murder your wife?" De Weese refused to say either ye- or no. He declared that he would neither admit nor deny the slaying. He said that he had been non-commital in all his statements regarding the tragedy and that was how he would continue to remain until un-til the opportune moment arrived for him to make a definite statement. Extremely Nervous. De Weese did not sleep Sunday night. Utterly fatigued, he slept about three hours last night. He smoked many cigarettes. Nobody was allowed to see him and there are no prisoners near by lor him to converse with. The police believe be-lieve that In his solitude De Weese is seriously thinking over his position and that he may elect to state his case fully Within the next day or two. According to Chief White, Pe Weese probably will be arraigned today. The chief said that De Weese would either ho taken to the scene of the crime or the persons who saw him entering bis apartment with his wife In September would be called to see him at the jail. |