Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-07 | Page 14 | Heese Not 'Man of Many Wives' Held in Los Angeles, Relatives Here Say; Married Ogden Girl

, hi tl ..lib,, i I 1 1 II I II I II III U Uii 1 I d ii ITOBBMSBMBaggB HEESE NOT IAN OF MANY WIVES' HELD IN LOS ANGELES, RELATIVES HERE SAY; MARRIED OGDEN GIRL Ed 12. Hcese, alleged to have heen wanted in connection with the discov-j ery of the bodies of two women in a well on property formerly belonging! to Hccse at Tccumsoh, Nebraska, and who later came to Ogden and married an Ogden girl, is not Walter Anderson Ander-son "Watson, multibigamist and alleged al-leged confessed murderer, according to a brother-in-law of Hcese, Guy Yarrington, of this city. He said: "Heese came hero in 1910 and was working at the depot at the time In the bridge building department. Ho was tall and well built and was of tho Scandinavian type. ' Ho met my sister, Mrs. .Louisa Smith, and after keeping company with her for nearly a year, married her. My sister wast at the time employed at tho depot. They lived happily and apparently Heese was a fine 'fellow, showing his wffe every consideration. "One evening in September, 1910, Hces read the paper after supper. "Wo all were in the habit of perusing the sporting news thoroughly and because be-cause it was missing, there vcro several sev-eral Inquiries on tho part of myself and brother as to whore tho sporting sheet had gone. Heese stayed around the house that evening and on the next day said ho was sick and was not going to work. Ho left for down town. That morning a neighbor came over and in a jocular manner asked us If we had seen the article telling of tho two women found In a well in Nebraska on property belonging to Ed Heese. That our sister's husband was the man never occurred to us. until un-til that evening when Louisa, his wife, said that he had not been home all day. We set out to find him but never found any trace of him aside from hearsay." "Shortly after he had disappeared, a baby was born to my sister. The child, Howard, lived until he was 8 years old, when an attack of measles,! followed by heart trouble, caused his' death. Wo have seen pictures of Watson Wat-son but he Is not Heese. Thero Is absolutely ab-solutely no resemblance between tho two men." This is the story of Hcese as given to a Standard-Examiner representative representa-tive this morning by his brothors-ln-law. They said that Hcese had writton a note to their sister, telling of a deposit de-posit of money in the bank. Ho made no reference to his reason for departing. depart-ing. Detective James Pender, who has since diod, was on the trail of Heese for months and Die Yarrington family spent two or three years searching in various parts of tho country for the missing man but no trace was ever found of him, it is said.