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Show LEWIS DID NOT KILL A BABY PORTER AT DEPOT HOTEL DENIES THE STORY. He Also Maintains That His Wife, Who Is An Ogden Girl, Did Not Make a Confession. Sam Lewis and his wife arrived ' from Chicago this morning and aro temporarily quartered at the Windsor j hotel. Sam will resume his position ! as porter at the Union Depot hotel j Friday morning and says he has a contract to remain at tho hotel In that capacity for tho next two years. ! When questioned by a Standard reporter re-porter regarding the story of his wife's arrest in Chicago, several months ago, and her alleged confession, wherein he was charged with infanticide, fa doing away with his own child in a Kansas cornfield last summer, Sam professed entire ignorance of the sensational sen-sational story, and said: . "I never heard a word of that remarkable re-markable story until wo reached Laramie, Lar-amie, coming west this trip, and then one of the railroad employes sprung it on me and asked what it meanL ! Our baby died In Kansas and was bnried on the 17th of last June. Wo j returned to Ogden at that time and remained here until last fall, leaving for Chlcago.where wo havo since lived avlth my father at 461 South Jefferson street. My wife was never arrested In Chicago, never in jail for a moment, mom-ent, never made a confession of any description and therip has never been a question raised before, so far as 1 know, regarding the , death of our baby. y "As I said before, I never heard of the matter until I reached Laramie and since I arrived at Ogden this morning I "I worked all winter and spring at I the Auditorium Annex In Chicago, and I my wife, formerly Hattle McDonald of this city, lived with my parents, my father being engaged in the clothing cloth-ing business in Chicago. "I applied for a position here some lime ago and was employed In my old place. That doenu't look as if I am a bad man a crook cr murderer does il-r-and I expect to make my home at Ogden for at least the next two yearc. j "The Kensational stories published regarding our domestic troubles are . without foundation and I should bo glad if the Standard would quote me I on the subject." |