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Show NEW MRS. HILTON DENIES THAI SHE ISPLURAL WIFE Haadsomq Woman Who Says She Bears Name of ! the Former Chief Is Badly Tangled. LOS ANGELES, Cel.. March 19. It was learned yesterday that Thomas Hilton, former for-mer Chief of Police of Salt Lake City, lived at No. 160 West Seventeenth street in Los Angeles. Inquiry at the house elicited from the man who answered the ring that "Mrs. Thomas Hilton" was at home. He called "Mrs. Hilton." and a young woman, aged probably 19 years, entered en-tered the room. She was tall, plump, well-formed, with rosy face, full, rounded cheeks and light eyes. She had light hair and a pleasant manner, although rather quick and decisive, and very self-pos- sessed. "You are Mrs. Thomas Hilton?" was asked. "Yes." "Do you not know that the real Mrs. Hilton Is Becking a divorce from him In Salt Lake?" "Mr. Hilton told me so last evening." "Then you are a plural wife of his?" "Most emphatically, no." ''But you say you are his wife, and yet you know that his wife Is In Salt Lake seeking a divorce from him?" "Well, I am not Mr. Hilton's wife." "But you Just said you were." "I pass as his wife. 1 won't have anything any-thing more to say to you. You're a newspaper news-paper man." "If you are not Mr. Hilton's wife, whv are you living here with him as his wife?'" "I have nothing to say." "At least state who you are eo you can be set right before the public." "No, I won't. Never mind about setting set-ting me right. If I'm crooked. I'm crooked. I won't talk to a newspaper man. I have nothing to say. Good afternoon." after-noon." At noon today Hilton suddenly quit his Job as butcher at Milton Cartson's. To his employer he gave no reason, but to a fellow workman he said: "I've got to quit and get out of here. The newspapers are after me. It's a little trouble about my wife, and I'm going to Salt Lake tomorrow tomor-row to get tt straightened out.", Hilton was working as a meat cutter for S12 a week. |