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Show PRESTON IS KEPT FROM ' HISWIFE WOMAN'S PATHETIC STORY AS TOLD TO A REPORTER. Wife and Children of Man Confined in County jail Are to Be Cast Into the Street. The following story of Preston 13 from the Salt Lake Herald: In the web and woof of the life story of Harry Preston, the man held as a witness In the box car robbery at Uintah which resulted in the murder mur-der of Deputy Sheriff Clark a strange design of almost fantastic coloring Is being woven. . Deprived of his llborty and held behind be-hind the barred cage awaiting a trial that may mean for him a prison sentence, sen-tence, Preston refuses to receive either eith-er an attorney or witnesses, or, in fact, anything that might serve toward bringing about his freedom. At the same time his wife, after sacrificing everything possible, even to mortgaging mortgag-ing the furniture of. the little home, is still carrying on the struggle to save her husband, even against his apparent appar-ent Indifference. More pitiful still, sho faces the prospect of having her three children Dora, aged 10; Belle, an invalid, in-valid, aged C, and Ruel, aged 4 taken from her custody by the Juvenile cuuri I officers. Mrs. Preston last night told a pitiful story of a brave fight against odds that were almost overwhelming. For weeks she has been fighting and using every available means to aid her husband. After mortgaging tho furniture in order to retain legal counsel coun-sel for her husband, she still found her hardest battle to come. In her story last night she said: "1 got a letter from my husband to come to Ogden to see him. and I went there Monday. When I went Into the Jail, he throw his arms around me, calling me dear names, and mado mo promise that I would come to see him often and bring the children. Ho wanted want-ed some clean clothes, and I went down town and bought him a shirt, a pair of trousers, some socks and some handkerchiefs. Before I left home here the children gave me some of the nickels they had saved and told me to buy candy and oranges for papa. I bought these, but when I went back to the jail the sheriff wouldn't let me take the 6tuff to my husband. "Tuesday afternoon I went to see my hus-band again, in company with Mr. Hart of the railroad, but th'e sheriff sher-iff refused to allow me to enter to see my husband, saying gruffly that Sunday Sun-day was visitors' day. I tried until 2:30 in the morning to get to see my husband, but couldn't. "They told me that my husband didn't want to see me, and that he didn't want any attorney or witnesses, but I know they poisoned his mind against me. "When I saw I wasn't going to get back to Salt Lake Tuesday evening, one of the men In the sheriff's office at Ogden telephoned for me to a neighbor, Mrs. Paula Smith, to have her go over and take care of tho children chil-dren for the night, "When I got back today I found that the landlord had been to the house ' and shnt off the water and left a notice no-tice that unless the month's rent was paid In three days he would put us in the street. Then one of the Juvenllo court men was down at the house with him, and after speaking roughly to the children said they mi,'ht be taken to the detention home." Although Preston la held at Ogden under the actual chargo of breaking into a box cor, it is 'believed that he Is wanted only as a witness against the murderer of Clark and that he has been promised immunity. This belief is strengthened by his apparent indifference indif-ference as to his position. |