Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-09-26 | Page 8 | Shocking Stories Are Told by Two Girls

SHOCKING STORIES ARE TOLD BY TWO GIRLS Tho preliminary hearing of oC Mrs E. E 1 M. M Johnston and Pc Pearl rl Hinkle who are arc charged with procuring Is being being- held In Judge Tanners Tanner's court COUlt Two girls Delia Della Smith and Clara Anderson Anderson An Au- derson derlon both hoth 16 years old whom the women women women wo wo- wo- wo men are arc alleged to ha have 0 secured A cr ere examined Their testimony was Wa of or such sucha a 1 nature that the courtroom was or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered cleared lt d of or spectators The girls declared that they were to have been sent to Boise Dolse Ida on September The Smith girl 1111 bro broke e down on the stand stan and wept She could not tell her stor story for a time but when she he proceeded proceed proceed- ed the details were wele so gO shocking that Judge Tanner cleared cleare the court before ic allowed her to proceed The girl Irl had lived Jived with her sl sitter sister ter at 11 South Tenth East She was a working girl Clara Andersons Anderson's parents live In Blackfoot Ida and are eager etler for her return to them She was married when only 15 Hi years year ear old and soon separated from her husband The defendants were by the testimony and considered the affair with a n. de degree rec of oC lt le levity that surprised the spectators and I the court