Show T VO SENSATIONS I Frank M Drigss of Pleasant Grove Elopes Alone i MRS COOK SUICIDES Mlas Westphal Who Wa to be Mrs Driegs Swears to a Complaint Chars injc Frank With Fornication Mrs Cook Grew Desperate for Money On Tuseday of this week it came to the ears of THE DISPATCH that ut least one some said three ofthe boys of Provo had skipped It was said that the cause of their skipping was that they hud seen old man Westphal from Pleasant Grove in Provo hobnobbing hob-nobbing with lawyers and with officers and they feared arrests were to follow Mr Westphal is an aged and thoroughly thor-oughly respectable gentleman and a good citizen He is now in sore trouble On that same day the writer of this received a letter from Frank M Driggs of Pleasant Grove asking as a friend that any sensational news that might be received regarding him be suppressed at least until he wrote again Of curse that led to a search Jar news The news was found It was to the effect that Mr Drjggs and Miss llachael Westphal had procured a marriage license and that on the evening before they were to have been married That the bishop was at the home of the father of the bridegroom in time to tie the knot the guests were all present the supper was prepared and the bride was there waiting for riggo but Driggs came not Neither has he come vet The cause of his sudden departure depart-ure it is said was that he learned why the Provo boys were frightened wby they ran away P M Driggs is a talented young man and a young man who has heretofore hereto-fore borne a most enviable reputation For years he has been instructor in the school for the deaf in Salt Lake city Warrants are now out for his arrest on a charge of fornication alleged to have been committed with Rachael West phal at Geneva on July 11th 1892 Driggs friends say that at that time ie was keeping company with Bachael but that since he has not kept company with her It is also said that Jriggs was compelled at the mouth of A revolver in the hands of Doc Westphal a brother of the girl to takeout take-out the marriage license That Driggs won the affections of the girl in 1892 and when he threw her up she was brokenhearted and that that was the cause of her downfall and why he wag asked to marry her When Drigga met Westphal and the revolver he Driggs had just returned from a visit to the midwinter fair Full confidence was had in Mr Driggs as he has been known as a w key il4m + L tl oroughly reliable man and a gentle min in every sense ot the word and the publication of this matter was withheld but his promised letter never came The whole story is now public property and Driggs is in the eyes of the public a villian who has outraged female innocence ANOTHER PLEASANT GROVE SENSATION Mrs Mary Maria Cook was an unfortunate un-fortunate Pleasant Grove girl whose husband left with the Carterites when they passed through the county She had a young babe and determined to raise money to help support herself and it by forging a check She passed at Drives millinery store a check on the Provo Bank of Commerce made out to Annie Davis for the sum ol 10315 placing the dollar mark after the ten and signed the name of 0 E Carey The check circulated in the town and was sent to Walker Bros Fyler Co of Salt Lake city It was sent by this firm to the Walter Brothers Bank and by that bank to the Deseret National Bank and then it came to Provo for collection The Provo Bank of Conmerce is now the bank of Swasey Martin and they retused to receive the check 0 E Cary of the Elsworth fruit farm was supposed to have drawn it but the signiture was 0 E Carey and he took no further interest in the matter The check finally went back to Pleasant Grove and Frank Beers a merchant accused Mrs Cook of having started the check in circulationit being traced to her She yesterday acknowledged the forgery and paid Mr Beers 5 on the check Yesterday she went to Clark Brothers Bro-thers store bought a bottle of strychnine strych-nine swallowed it and died in terrible convulsions It is supposed the discovery discov-ery of her forgery led to the rash deed |