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Show OGDEN DOCTOR H PECK OFJiiLE Salt Lako, Feb. 28. Tribune 'Scandal, 'Scan-dal, whispered Into the bride's oar within an hour after the wedding bells had begun to ring, throw Dan Cupid into a panic last night, nearly upset a romance over which ho had busied himself for many weeks, and resutcd finally in a police investigation investiga-tion that might havo completely spoiled spoil-ed a promising honeymoon. Yesterday afternoon Dr. J H. Powers, Pow-ers, a practicing physician of Ogdon, and Miss Katbryn A. Hcmslcy of this city, obtained a marriage license at tho county clerk's office and were married Bhortly afterward by a minister min-ister Then cam the tonguo of scandal to blast love's young dream. In somo manner, not known to the polico, at any rate, the bride heard that her husbaud was not all hers and that there was another woman from whom he had not yot obtained a divorce. There was a llvelv scene at a local hotel. It Is said, when the bride confronted con-fronted the bridegroom with the bit of information. According to tho polico po-lico version of the affair. Dr. Powers admitted that ho had been married before but Insisted that he had full and legal divorce papers. In a burst of rago tho bride, accompanied accom-panied bv her sister, repaired to tho office ofChiot of Police B. F. Grant and told her story, charging the doctor doc-tor with duplicity. ChlelV Grant dispatched dis-patched two llnx-pyed detectives on Cupid's trail and within a few minutes, min-utes, 'brido, bridegroom and the little blind god himself faced each other In tho private office of Chief Grant. What took place inside is a secret, but this much Is known, Cupid departed depart-ed triumphant and the bride nnd bridegroom followed soon after him. arm In arm." Chief Grant emerged from the conferonce with a broad grin and, from all appearances tho storm was over. Chief Grant would only say that Dr. Powers has promised to produce all necessary papers, showing show-ing him to have been free to marrv Miss Hcmslcy, as soon as he arrlver, in Ogdon. Dr Powers is the son of the late Dr H. J Powers, who died In Ogden last week after a lone career as ono of the most prominent surgeons In that cltv. Ho Is himself a practicing physician In Ogden Mrs. Powers Is a trained nurse, formerly for-merly employed at the Deo hospital In Ogden and more recently of the staff of St. Mark's hospital fn Salt Lake. It was in tho Dec hospital that Dr. Powers Is said to have met her. Accbrdlng to relatives of the brido, Dr P6wcfs Is not divorced from his second wife; whom he Is Said to have married"' In Boise jdaho. The physician phy-sician declares he will provo today that ho w"a"s legally divorced from Mrs. Powors No 1 and Mrs. Powers No. 2. A lazy liver leads to chronic dyspepsia dys-pepsia and constipation weakens tho whole system. Doan's Regylets (23 . cents per box) corroct the liver, tono the stomach, cure constipation. |