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Show SAME SAD STOIIY. A Woman's Cruel Treatment by Her Husband. He Take Another Woman to the Hous and Puta Arsenic Into the Coffee of His First Wife to Clear Her Off. Special to the Morning Disputen: Salt Lake City, July 27. When the Union Pacific pulled into this city to-night, a women and two children alighted. All three were faint from waul of food and were taken to the police po-lice station where it was learned that she was the wife of Gardner, the poisoner poi-soner of Indian Terilory .'w hose recent attempt to poison this woman and her cnildren was telegraphed all over the country. She says her husband brought another woman to their home at Teleeo and when she objected, he knocked her down. The next day he put arsenic in her coffee and skipped out, and has not yet been caught, although the officers have been looking for him'. The yoiyigest cluld died, but the other two children are alive, though sick. The woman started to join her aunt at Idaho Spiings, but hei money gave out and she has had a hard time of it. She wa taken to the hotel to-nignt, and money will be raised to send her to her aunt. Another sad case developed hereto day. A few weeks ago a barber named Simmons left his wife in Port land and came on to this city. For some time she heard nothing from him, and a week ago she came here with her two children to find him. but learned he had gone on. She was quite desu'iute, and the A. O. U. W. got a room for her and provided for her immediate wants. On Friday her youngest child was taken down with diphtheria and died to-day. It is not thought likely the other child can escape, es-cape, as it is in the same room with the dead child. Dr. Husted, who at one time lived in Provo, was sentenced by Commissioner Xoriell to-day to three 'month's impris onment and to pay a line of Sod fur wife beating. At the conclusion Husted Hust-ed was handed the papers in a suit for divorce brought by his wife. The investigation into the charges made against the captain and sergeant of police will close to-morrow. There were some lively developments to-day. and it is said there came near being a slugging match between a witness and an officer in the council chamber. Col. Ed Kelley to-night wired Parson Davies that he would guarantee $3,0(10 for a fight between Hall and Fitzsim-mons, Fitzsim-mons, to come off in this city, and there is a possibility that the oiler may be accepted. The political fight Is growing hotter every clay. The Liberals seem to be losing enthusiasm, and estimates of their majority on next Monday are getting get-ting smaller all the time. |