Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-02 | Page 6 | Much Married Man and Two Women in Custody

MUCH MARRIED MAN AND TWO WOMEN IN CUSTODY Police Sergeant H. C. Peterson went to Salt Lake City this morning and brough hack .Mrs. Willard Melrose and Ethel Brant who were wanted by ' the local authorities. Mrs. Melrose was convicted a few days ago in the municipal court on a charce of soiling liquor without a license li-cense and was fined $100. The Brant woman escaped conviction by pleading plead-ing drunkenness Mrs. Melrose left $o0 with the authorities and her attorney at-torney stood good for the remainder of the fine. Shortly after the trial, the two women departed for Salt Lake. They were there only a day or two when taken into custody bv the Salt Iake officers on a misdemeanor misde-meanor charge, but as they were wanted in Ogden for more serious reasons, the Salt Lake people tele graphed Chief of Police Norton. Mrs Melrose will probably be charged with contempt of court, In attending to avoid payment of a fine, and the Brant woman, is to be held as the complaining witness in the case of the State of Utah vs. Willard Melrose Melrose is charged with polygamy and his case was brought up this mornlntr in the municipal court. The complaint acainst his dates from July 1913 and alleges that on the 28th of that month he married Luetta Hammond Ham-mond in Brigham City. It states farther that on July IS. 1909, under the name of Willard Wilson, he married mar-ried Florence May Palmer and was not divorced at the time of his second sec-ond marriage. Since the complaint was filed, the officers have been looking for Melrose Mel-rose but had no definite trace of him until he was arrested with the two women at the Bennett block on Giant avenue and Twenty-sixth street just before Christmas He was charged at that time with resisting an officer, but at the trial other circumstances arose which caused him to be held for further investigation and he is now held to answer to the charge of polygamy. When asked by Municipal Clerk Fulton, during the reading of the complaint, com-plaint, as to his true name, he said that it was Willard Melrose His preliminary pre-liminary hearing was set for next Monday morning. nn