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Show WIFE SAYS HUSBAND LIKES RICH WIDOWS Additional Light Is Shed on Career of Alleged Confidence Man in Jail at Ogden. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Jan. 4. Evidence that "Dr." John M. Dailey, now serving a fifty-day sentence in the city jail for operating a confidence game, w-as an artist in the marrying line with a preference pref-erence for wealthy widows is contained in a letter just received by the police from his wife, now living in Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Cal. ' He is alleged to have deserted de-serted her in July of last year and had made arrangements at the time of his arrest here a month ago to marry Mrs. Lucille Keefer, a pretty divorcee of Reno, Nev. According to the letter of the former wife, Dailey deserted her after virtually robbing her of $10,000 and leaving her with a two-day-old baby. She was operating a hotel, owned a $5000 bungalow bunga-low and had $2000 out at interest, according ac-cording to the letter, when Dailey made love to her and finally persuaded her to marry him. That was May 3, 1916, and in the short space to July, 1917, he had spent every dollar which the woman possessed. She is now penniless and working as a cook in a hospital, the baby having died three weeks after birth. Dailey even had the nerve to return to her after she left the hospital, the woman contends in her letter, claiming it was all a mistake. She intercepted a letter, however, alleging that he had planned to marry a Mrs. Fry, another widow, who owned valuable property. The lawful Mrs. Dailey is seeking some mode of redress for the alleged wrongs, but there seems to be little hope of realizing real-izing anything, especially in a financial wav, for Dailey could not pay his $j0 fine. |