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Show A BASE VILLAIN. . -, The Story of a' Musician Who Once Lived in Provo. While His Wife is Bedridden With Sickness, He Seduces Se-duces Her Sister. He Elopesto Montana,Where He is Finally Tracked and Arrested. I Soe time ago four musicians from Scofield visited Provo, with a view to locating here. They were known as the Cox Bros. Quadrille band. They sought the influence of some prominent promi-nent men in this city, and were helped along considerably, but not meeting with the success they expected, in being be-ing recognized as the leading ballroom ball-room band of the territory, they left for other parts. After disbanding, the leader, Harry Cox, went to Coalville, the home of his wife's parents. He got work there, and sent for his wife. Some time after her arrival she wa- taken yery sick, and her sister, a buxom damsel of about fifteen summers, sum-mers, stayed wich her, tending to the household duties, and caring for her four children. It appears from facts that have come to light that the husband got rather intimate with his wife's sister, an ! shortly afterwards the couple eloped. This was sometime ia October last. Immediately on this fact becoming known, Deputy Sheriff Wilkins, of Summit county, telenraphed to officers all over the country, sending photographs and circula s describing the couple. The pc.-or wife, on learning of the inconstancy incon-stancy of her husband, and the heart-lessness heart-lessness of her sister, swooned into what seemed to be a fatal faiating fit. On consciousness being restored, a heavy fever set in, which soon turned to brain fever. This attack lasted for a long time, and on her health being partially restored, it was found that her reason was dethroned, and that the poor creature had become hopelessly hope-lessly insane. She is not able to talk aDout anyttung except ner nusounu, whose name she calls incessantly and varies it by bursts of maudlia laughter. The officers had been unsuccessful in their efforts to track the miserable scoundrel of a husband, despite the liberal reward offered by Mr. Thomas, the father of the women Cox so villainously vil-lainously wronged, until a few days ago, wheu Deputy Marshal Wilkins received a telegram from the sheriff at Butte, Montana, informing him that the wretch was there, and asking Officer Wilkins to coma and get him. Arrangements were made for the prisoner to be taken to Coalville, where he was accordingly landed and lodged in jail. The girl was found with him, and in a very delicate state of health, being enceinte. |