The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-16
OTHER BUSINESS.
A BeastlY Affair.

j. w. Price, the aeronaut who is making
ascensions and parachute drops at Lake
Park, was arrested early yesterday morn
ing by Marshal Dyer and Deputy Franks in
a field a short distance from Doc Hague's
road house, south of this city. A warrant
for his arrest had been sworn out the even
ing previous, and Sheriff Burt and several
of the deputies had been kept going most of
the night in search of the fellow, but with
no success. Lake Park and his hotel
were closely watched, but with no result,
and it became evident to the officers that
| Price had got wind that he was wanted.
| Sheriff Burt thinks some of his friends
must have warned him that the officers
were in search of him, and that he dropped
off at the Nineteenth ward station, and
made his way to where he was found either
on foot or in a carriage.
Price is charged with fornication, in
that he seduced a girl fourteen years of
age, by the name of Georgina Angel. The
examination yesterday was held with closed
doors, but from the officers and from the
parents of the unfortunate girl the follow
| ing was learned. The poor girl, who is so
infatuated with Price as to be virtually in
sane on the subject met him, it is supposed
at Lake Park, where her girlish admiration
| for his daring" must have been deeply
| stirred. Under just what circumstances
the meeting took place was not learned,
but the girl admits that on Tuesday even
| ing last she went out for a ride with him,
telling her mother that she was going to a
surprise party at the house of friend
| The mother gave her consent, but was con-
siderably worried at her absence all night,
as she did not return. Pressed as to
where she had been, the girl stated that she
had staid at the house of friend, whom
she named. To the sheriff she stated that
she had never before been guilty of any
wrOngdoing, and that she would not have
gone with Price had he not promised that
he would marry her the next day 1t seems
| that she had gained the idea that Price
would marry her and that she was to
travel with him in his ballooning iaunts.
She remained away several nights and on
Friday evening her parents found her at
the hotel where Price and Mile Viola were
stopping. She at first refused to 90 home
with them, but the sheriff finally persuaded
her that it was the best thing she could do
She insisted, however, that Price was the
soul of honor aud would do all that he had
agreed to. The particulars as they were
developed yesterday are suppressed. for the
present at least, but it is not too much to
say that, if the stories told by the girl are
true, the fellow should be run out of town
on rail. Indignation ran high against him.
The examination was not finished yester.
day, only the evidence of the girl herself
and the woman Viola being taken, when it
was postponed until Monday. Prices
friends, however, claim that he is willing
to marry the girl, and this being true, it is
plain evidence of his guilt He was re
leased under bonds of 800 to appear on
Monday for further examination-the
bonds being deposited in cash by someone
connected with the Lake Park manage
ment If half of the statements are true.
the penitentiary for life would be a mild
punishment for the fellow
1t was stated yesterday that an individ-
ual who has gained considerable notoriety
of late had endeavored to defend Price by
alleging that the girl had an unsavory
reputation before she met Price. This is
Indignantly denied by her relatives. and
her demeanor and general department yes
terday would seem to give the lie to the
assertion made against her.