| Show DOMESTIC DRAMA A wife leaves her lier husband taking her two children last thursday chief of po police alice alma keyes received the following tel telegram na from denver tr chief b i ef of police ogden arrest stephen St erlien quick and airs mrs pearce who will vil I think arrive in ogden to day day or tonight to night quick is 26 years i s old I a cornishman Corni sliman five feet nine nine inches light complexion thin fea parts his hair m in the middle talks broad tho the woman is 24 years old light complexion two children are with them the boy seven years and the girl five years old telegraph me when found and hold till tili I come DJ D J chief of police sir mr keyes at once notified at the depot to be on the lookout for tho the parties wanted and himself kept an eyo eye on all strangers the vigilance of the police waa was rew rewarded ardef on friday noon when officer observed two persons whose appearance corresponded with tho the description furnished by the denver authorities leaving the eastern emigrant train ho he forthwith notified the of police keyes by telephone and meanwhile kept close by the suspected parties under pretext of transferring them to the P train which they said they intended to board being bound for san F francisco ran when officer keyes arrived at the depot he arrested the travelers who expressed unfeigned surprise at such unexpected official reception cep tion mr keyes took the man to the city jail while he placed mrs pearce and her two children in the care of his own family this doneho informed the denver police of the arrest asking at the same time for further instructions he received the following answer r denver col june 10 ogden en utah alma keyes hold hol c aula quick and pearce till we come for them with papers D J COOK chief police the we presumably refers to the denver chief of police and the irate husband in search of his fugitive wife quick tries to explain the suspicious looking fact of being found in the company of mrs pearce by the statement that he and his brother had for some time contemplated leaving colorado for their intention had bad been very well known by their acquaintances among whom were tho the pearces Pear cea ho he denies ever having been on any terms of intimacy with mrs pearce who corroborates his statement As we are credibly informed mrs pearce while persistently and earnestly denying any criminal intimacy dimac with quick declares it her firm determination never to return to her husband as she holds it impossible to live with him the children also are said to manifest a great aversion to their absent parent and fall to crying at the mention of a reunion reunion with him mrs pearce says she cannot take legal steps to secure a divorce from her husband as she pretends to be afraid he be might use foul play against her this state ment certaine certainly tainI pounds sounds more romantic alian probable the whole affair is of a sad nature and on whichever side the wrong lies it is to be hoped that no innocent party will suffer in the catastrophe of this domestic drama |
