Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-23 | Page 16 | Innocent Man Proves Victim in Comedy of Errors

Innocent Han Proves Victim in Comedy of Errors Spends Night in Jail Because Be-cause He Has Name of Vanished Spouse. HAT's not my husband," said I 1 Mrs, Frank Russel in the juve-I juve-I nile court yesterday when taken JL there to confront a Frank Russel Rus-sel brought from Ogden on her complaint of failure to provide. Mrs. Russel had seen a newspaper account ac-count of the conviction of a. Frank Russel in Ogden on a charge of intoxication. She immediately appealed to the juvenile court and asked that he be brought to this city and forced to contribute to the support of his children, explaining that her husband had deserted her some months ago. The court complied with the request, sent an officer to Ogden and the man was brought, locked in the county jail overnight, in spite of his protests that he had not be-fore been in Salt f ake in seventeen years, and taken into court yesterday morning. Then his protests were confirmed by the consternation of the wife when she discovered that the Frank Russel produced was not her Frank Russel. "Are you married?" asked the court. "No," answered the man." "Well. I really should fine you $25 for not being married and turn it over to the absent Frank Russel's family, but the law will not permit me to do so," commented com-mented the court. "You may go."