Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-09 | Page 5 | Prisoner Looks out of Cell and Sees Wife He is Accused of Murdering

PRISONER j LOOKS OUT OF CELL AND SEES WIFE HE HEIS IS S ACCUSED OF- OF MURDERING OF-MURDERING OF MURDERING ME BY nr GRAHAM STEPHENS STEPh ENS Spec Correspondent ot or The Standard Examiner Copyright 1923 1823 LOS ANGELES Dec 8 8 Elgin peered out between the bars bars ot of o his cell In the county jail fail today and saw the he It le ac- ac accused accused ac accused of murdering There Is nothing the tho matter with mind His HIa conscience Is not raising raisins up to turo tur- ture tur-ture ture him It was real flesh And blood wio he saw caw aw At least that Iq what contends and w n n hat the comel comely young wIfe wire Edna contends But the officers of ot the law once entangled In the strange affair demand more positive as as- as assurance than his word nord and hers here that Mrs Mrs- Irs Is the woman 4 declared herself to be anSI and ven l very much alive as any anYone one can So may have hate ha e to content himself with his lot In jail jaU tor for a afew afew few days while she is establishing her Identity Taking the case from the police It Is Iq possible that Mrs Mra Edna Is not Mrs rs Edna at al all air but just lust a young oung woman skillfully trained to Im- Im Impersonate Im Ira Impersonate personate her lIeI In that event I DI-I El- El Elgin El Elgin gin Is Indeed In a grave predIcament and his life lite hardly worth a song And In that event also o the Mrs a ashe as she would be proved pro e to be would take rank rank as the foremost actress of all al all rank time and she and record themselves es as the most un unconcerned tin un- unconcerned concerned and cheerful persons e eter eer er seriously In Involved 01 ed in aStur a der mystery SIMPLE TIVE NARn story Is a simple nar- nar narrath rathe nar-rathe rath rathe e He lIe Is a carpenter 38 8 years old of ot a roving ro Ing disposition but neter ne lacking for tor work He married mar mar- married married ried Miss Edna Rogers daughter Ot of Mr and Mrs Arthur Ro Ropers Rogers ers at Eagle Valley Oregon In 1920 In 1922 and his wife WIte went back to Eagle Valley for I a visit to her parents From there they went to Eugene Eug ne Oregon and ond thence to Burley Burle Idaho where a 1 daughter was born bom to them Later they went out on theIr travels by car and have been In Los Angeles about four tour months Wednesday two men called on and making an excuse to Ills his wife he left with them Later he sent her word not to worry but he had been arrested on a strange charge Mrs Pitt Pitt- mann lost no time In visiting the authorities and demanding to know kno why her husband was BBS v all held She vl 1 was as told that he was held hed for tor murderIng his wife Mrs Edna After a gasping recovery Mrs Irs Identified herself herselt and asked for further details D CLAIM It appears that almost a 1 year after and his wife left lett Eagle Valley the body of a II woman BS was as washed ashore from the tho Col- Col Columbia Columbia Col Columbia River near Wallula Wash Wash- Washington Wash ington Although 1 difficult Mr and Mrs Mra Rogers were daughter positive e It was their daugh daugh- ter Ddn Edns They were upheld by byM's s Ms Robert Allen Alien Ednas Edna's school schoolgirl I girl friend Nothing had been heard of or his wife state since they had paid their to her parents parents- A v warrant arrant arrant charging with murder of his wife was out but he could not be ba found A few dale da sago a ago Mrs wrote from Los Loe Angeles to Mrs lIen Allen who promptly notified the a ti 1 tiT that th f PlUm ann was ILos In Los Angeles and his arrest fol followed tot tot- lowed Mrs MrA declares that she ahe wrote to her parents several times but they had bad moved and the let let- letters let letters tern did not reach them She wrote to Mrs Allen Alien largely to oh- oh ob obtain tain tamn word of her father and mother and to learn how she could reach them bv by letter Mis bite willingly posed for tor a photograph today to be sent sont to Oregon authorities In order that her Identity may be established beyond doubt Her Ider first effort was to teach leach I ench her hen father b by tele- tele telephone telephone tele telephone phone believing InG that he hc would her olce olee but she was unable to establish contact and the authorities here wro doubtful about accepting such proof says arll he Is la thankful that he and his hta wife are a II devoted couple It she sho had deserted aim and iod Tie ho would now stand in tho the shadow of the gal gal- gallons gal gallows Jo lows lons s vuth th hardy a II chanco for tor escape es- es cape nn