Show M MOCK CK MARf t tP AGE k OF P YOUNG lOUNG l by ay Which a Married Man is Alleged to Have Succeeded in His Brutal Bi Resins Designs lS and Which Led Finally to a Sensation in Police Circles i 1 I rt Through ough artful machinations ons as its heartless as any an ev r painted upon the melodramatic stage sta e Miss Grace Muter Iuler a pretty prett year ohl girl gill Inns hus been living in unconscious adul adultery tery tot ter since the of last February On that date the young oung woman was made the tho victim of a mock marriage to Harry Hurr Lee l c at ut Evanston but it was I not until Friday Frida that tho the Illegality of the tho marriage ceremony became I known to her het Leo is now locked in inthe the tho city Jail jall under a charge of at adul adultery adultery I tery and his girl victim Is stopping at atthe atthe atthe the home of friends at Jefferson avenue Lee was arrested Thursday after afternoon afternoon noon on ell a charge change of heating beating his Juts w wife After Artor his arrest It Il was recalled by seine somo of o the officers that little more than a year ear ago the man uran had been sentenced to serve sene ninetynine days In the county Jail on a n similar charge It was us also ahm recalled that at that time Lee was married to smother mother woman I I and that ho inn had never secured a 1 dl di i I 1 vorce from his former wife Leo was wits informed that he must answer to lo tho the charge of bigamy Rather Rathel than face Cace this charge the tho man matt told the officers that ho he was not warned married to the Hunter girl When the tho luler girl was ques questioned questioned she told of a marriage cere ceremony ceremony mony mon having been performed at Evanston Wyo on the night of Feb February February February IG IC Lee did not attempt to toden deny den that such an affair had taken place but ut stated that it Jt was merely a mock hock marriage arranged arn to appease the tine girls scruples The girl when seen bv by b a Standard Stan ard reporter at ut the tho Ralph Henderson H resl resi residence deuce dence on Jefferson avenue yesterday did not hesitate to tell her story ston Sho stated staled that she is the daughter r of Robert Muter df of f Rock Springs where her hel father Cather Is employed as fore tore foreman foreman man In the Union Pacific roundhouse Sho She has boon been out of or school little more core than a year car having ha ing last attended school at a convent In Cheyenne Last October she was employed at a Rock RockSprings RockSprings Springs telephone exchange and be became became came cIme acquainted with Lee who Lebo was I playing a piano in one of the amuse amusement amusement amusement ment houses mouses of the city We e began going together t said Miss Muter Iuler I demurely and I L Idill dill did nut not know that he Inc ever eyel had been he en married marrie About two months month later latI I learned of his former marriage or enough about it Il to tusk ask him If It was not nOl true that ho hall hal burn been married He confessed that he had once been heon I I I I I i I 1 I I married but claimed that he had wd so se secured cured a divorce I was working one evening few after tills thIs a days das a t I lung long distance call came over the tho line I 1 Ifor for him It camo came from Ogdon Ogden and f t could not help listening to the convey conver conversation conveys I s that thal passed pal between Mr Ir Leo Lee and time the Ogden party parly part Loo Uc was told that his hs former formel had died He lie told lohl me about this tolls when I saw him later on au the same sam night and I 1 admitted to lung him l ru that hint I had heard tine the thecO conversation cO He seemed glad that tint I had heard hoard it as he said that I I would now no know for forr o certain that he hue i iwas was free It was quite tulle a while after I 1 this lints that I learned that his gig hi former formel j I I wife was still living but huh I did not sus suspect suspect that tho time message which I J had in intercepted had been a decoy deco which he Intended mended I should hear Well Voli If she sine dead deall she s divorced ho he told me and I 1 let It go by b trusting to his story that drat he lie had been tho the victim of or ofa ofa 1 a Joke My parents IJ rents were opposed to my m many marrying ing Leo Lee and I 1 was not old enough to get married hi in Rock noel RockSprings RockSprings Springs without their consent Last February Lee proposed that we go to Evanston and amid get married and then thea go goto goto goto to Ogden Og en and keep keell house I 1 loved loel I Lee and anti assented to this plan On J the of oC February we took a train Hain to Evanston It was after 1 9 in tho tine evening when vo wo left RockSprings Hock Rock Springs As soon as we arrived In fu Evanston Lee took too me hue to a room on the second floor of a building not more immure than two blocks from Crom tho time de depot depot depot pot He tie told me mite it was eras the office ofa of or ofa ora a justice jus lice of the peace with whom he lie had arranged for or a marriage ceic cere mony mouy mon x monAs As I entered the he room I saw saw Sant a ayoung young joung Ulan man sitting by a labia t blo read reading reading ing illg from a book There were other books and papers on the table and I Ihal Imad mad hal not nol the time slightest doubt that I 1 was In ht the office of a justice of the tho th pence peace j I fie Hie man turned to us ns and Leo Len In iii Introduced reduced me as a his ills Intended bride brideI I remember In introducing the manto man manto I to me he lie called him Justice Palmer The man hind hall us stand facing ench each other while he lie read from the book hooli I I 1 knew something about a out a wedding ceremony anti and the man me the ordinary questions that are arC asked I luring during durin such ceremonies Will you trust honor hono and obey this tills man ninn ho loo asked and I 1 answered yes Then I pronounce you man and wife and af after aftel after ter tel these Him words Lee Itee t and the theman man utan wrote on a paper but butI I did not have hae to sign my name to any documents There were wele no wit witnesses witnesses witnesses nesses to time llio marriage but hut I did not know that this was necessary where a u marriage was performed by hy bya hya a Justice of the peace Let Leo said It was not apt I had never neer seen Keen a mar marriage ringe performed and there ther was noth nothing ing suspicious the cei ceremony to tomo tome mo me at nt that time lime The girl stated that Lee began begun to mistreat her shortly after coming to this city but had never been be n actual actually ly Iy brutal until a 1 few weeks ago afo when whon he lie came home drunk and threatened to beat bent her with a club which he I raised over oer her head hea On Ou a number num er I of occasions during the past month Lee has lias threatened to Kill 1111 her ninth and andon on Thursday drew a sharp knife from I his liis pocket and pressed the point of It against a her breast and swore swon that he Intended to tu Kill hlll bor he When site she I escaped from front his clutches and nd at attempted j I tempted to lo telephone to the time police pollee I station receiver from fn Lee jerked he Iho I 1101 nor hand iland and Hald said he ho would call up j the d police IT if she wanted I them He lIe called the police to tho the house ninth and when he saw an officer fled out time the back door I and escaped arrest Later a L warrant was sworn swore out olit bv b his and he was arrested Since coming cominS to Ogden with the girl Lee Lc has worked at a anum num number her ber of places and aud has earned some som 0 money by b piano playing The tinier lIller girl states stales that her hei father will ho bo boIn hoin In ht Ogden this evening and It Is pos possible possible possible sible that the parent will decide to have hao Lee taken back to Wyoming to answer to the tho law lawLees lawLees lawLees Lees real wife still sUll resides In this city but hut has had hall nothing to do with her husband for the past year em emI f I J |