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Show SAMUEL D. LEE BREAKS I INTO LIMELIGHT AGAIN GIRL BRIDE THREATENS MILL SELF Sari Husband Slapped Her and Is Afraid He Will KiH Her. WAS CHARGED THAT HE PURCHASED HER Sister of Wife Who Committed Com-mitted Suicide, Charging Lee With Cruelty. la rani D. Las has com into the , P" VmmttX train. And, aa U usual with him. there la a . woman In the case. Thla time It la tha ilstar of ana of IIIUUIIIII. .ItUHMIIIj t bboobo or iELu - 1 NOTORIETY HERE t Shortly after o'I?ek , h I eveaing of (September 16, Mai, Mrs. Alice Lea, a (red 15 was found dead in lit home of Sam- T ual D. Lea, from a ballet that v had been tired into bar brain. M vsterv shrouded the death. A -1- letter which was said to have been written bv Mrs. Let gave suicide as the cause. :- March 28. 1812. 8. D. Lee 1 waa married to a young girl of 4 this city named Bertha Amelia Baekniau. He (rave her deeds for property valued at $4000. She left a few minutes after the ceremony. The marriage waa later annulled, but Lee was forced to y hia former bride Hf for the property. July 6, 1912, in a police court in Liverpool. England, Mrs. 4 Emilv Doughty, mother of Lee's wife, was charged with negotiat- ing with Lee to sell her seven- teen-yearoM daughter to him. !-4- October 13, 1612, Lee married 4 tha young Mable Doughty in 4- California. He was arrested a 4-4- week later in California for beating his seventeen vear-old 4 bride. April 11 Lea's girl-bride 4 threatened to commit snicide 4 4 after he had slapped her in the 4 mouth. f April 12, I.ee threatened to r .hoot Ti f w. t a i ' r men when thav 4 4 approached him at his home to 4 t interview him. I. iiiiMimiMiiiini had bought for the reception. This houss was at 234 1. street. True enough, the Doughty women and her pretty seventeen -year -old daughter arrived In Halt Leake City. Ie and the j daughter were married In California last I Ortober and about a week sfter the wed -i ding snnouncemsnt had been mads a dls- pstch from Los Anaelss told how lees had been arrested for striking his young bride Lived on B Street. later I .(!. his girl bride and Mrs. Doiihty came hsre snd lived on B street,' but only for a short time. They moved to ?3 West First South street, where I.ee still resides with his young wlfs. Mrs. Doughty, the mother, left. lasst night the police were celled to the Lee home at 9SS West First South street I by neighbors, who wsre disturbed by screems from Mrs. Lee. who wss thrsat-enlng thrsat-enlng to commit snickls because her husband hus-band slapped her in the face. Lee had come home Intoxicated, according accord-ing o Mrs. Las, as she discussed the occurrences oc-currences of the evening. Wrien he drove up to the front of the house Mrs. Lee sVnf .mt fi Hia mt'hln u nrf nmi'MNinl Lew's former wires, who wag round dead in bar room and who Lag said bad committed suicide. Tba sister threat ened to kill herself last night altar Lee had slapped bar. It was charged In an English court that Lee bought thla girl from her mother and that tba latter, to make sure that the bargain was carried out, delivered tha goods C. O. D. In Salt Lake City. The bride is a beautiful glil. with pretty red hair, large, expressive blue eyes and a most pleasing personality. Lee nas drinking yesterday, and a hen be drove bis automobile up to his bouse, :;.; Wost First tJouth street, last avaaiag bis girl bride smashed the lights with a hammer, thinking in this b way sbu would a dangerous ride with her iiitukivutcd husband. When be slappud her she threatened to hl" .hersel'. .Vrighbvrs turned in an alarm and the police responded. Mrs. Loe smoothed thiugs over, however, and spent the night m the bouie of a neighbor. neigh-bor. Offers i Bribe. Ie Ihreavteued to kill two reporters this moraiag when they west to see him. His wife says he has threatened to kill her. The police investigated the death of bis tret wife a loag time before be-fore they were r tiling to accept the theory of suicide, because they eould not prove anything else. It is declared that Lee frequently carries on target practice in his back , vard with a rifle and a revolver. A revolver bollet struck within two feet , of a neighbor's nitwlow and tlie man, I alarmed, got his own revolver and went out to investigate. He aaya he found I.ee practicing. . Lee explained thia morning that he was always able to buy Immunity frm I -... ,k : .... to smash In the lights with a hammer. Rhe fesred thst Iee would force her to go riding with him In his Intoxicated cnndMlon. as he Invariably does. She . hoped to prevent this by smashing the lights In. Ives then, she added, slapped her on I the mouth and she ran Into the house, t rying that she would kilt herself, ss hsr i sister hsd done. Neighbors hsard ths rst-ket, and. knowing ths .charactsr of L. telephoned the polios. Mrs. l-roe found a safe shsttsr for ths night st ths home of a neighbor st vlA Kuiild avenue. This morning neighbors saw hsr going to the grocery store from tha home of her husband. Mrs. Lee Is an attractive Irish girl, not II years of axe. with big blue eyes and red hair. Hhe Is more thsm orttliiarlly lomely. std while none of tils nelghfitirs sround where she Mvse ts personally acquainted, ac-quainted, all sympathise with her. "I do not know what to do. I ant afraid my life will be In danr," plfaded the unfortunate young woman, after ths affair of last night. lre spent many years In Mouth Africa, where he made considerable wealth, but as to Just how hs mads It Is unknown. James Conlon. who t-oards at ths Mc-Kts Mc-Kts horas. where Lee used to live, ssld this mornlfsf that he once got -Into a dls-puts dls-puts with Lee. who threatened to state him with a knife. He had called Lee hvpocrite snd a liar for statements he had made about certain women of hie ao quatntancs. "Money talks," he said, and then he asked the reporters how much it would cost him to buv siluiee from the newspapers. news-papers. When he found that h.i at tempts were useless he got sbusive snd threatened to kill. His Former Notoriety. 8 P. Lee first broke into print in this in September It. 1911. when bis wife committed suhids. Me wss next heard from March 2. 1912. whsn he obtslned s msrrisse license to marry Bertha A. Backman, a girl in hsr teens, and gave her deeds to two lots snd houses ss a wadding gift. An hour sfter tbe ctremonv the bride ran oft with $40 worth of clothes snd Jewelry snd the dseds for the two pieces or property. prop-erty. Later the marriage was annulled, but Lee was forced to buy hack ths property It wss not long after Lee's second break Into publicity that he again became implicated In a serious police court scandal scan-dal st Liverpool. Rng. On July t. 1912. Mrs. Kmlly Doughty, mot hsr of Lee's former wife, who committed sulctds. was put on trial, charged with attempting to procure for unlawful purposes her own seventeen-year-old dsughter (the present Mrs. Lee) for Hamuel David Lee. H wss brought out In the trial that Lee offered a large sum of money to Mrs. Doughty ir she would Induce her dsughter. dsugh-ter. Ms bet. sister of the woman who had committed suicide, to come to Halt Lake and be hia third wife. It is said that Mabel steadfastly objected, but Mrs. Doughty svsa went so far as to threaten hsr daughter, if she did not corns to t ii rsse, In an Interview a few dava before the London dispatch was published hers Lee aald that he. expected the Doughty woman wom-an and her young daughter to arrive In Bait Lake City In a few weeks. !, wss at that time fixing up a houss which he |