Arizona silver belt., 1889-08-03
ALICE EDITH pLSrmEs rARENTAGE.

often the least deserving of Gods crea- lures become objects of such absorb ing interest, that, in order to satisfy the public mind, editors flood their columns with accounts of human de- pravity, which are more eagerly sought after than even the sensational sermons of Sam Jones.
 The great struggle ROW m progress in the Probate Court of San Francisco county, California, to establish heir ship to the deceased Thos. H. Blythe, involving a distribution of an estate valued at S4,000,000, is the lodestone which IS attracting the curious in crowds, and where the crush IS most detrimental to bonnets, and ladies, in the jam, are jostled, and where testi- lnonY revealing loose state of morals IS abundant.
 lnasmuch as the skeletons in the Blythe Dicllenson-Perry closet are be. ing revealed in the legal contest above referred to, it will perhaps prove of interest to our readers to awaken the arowsy recollection of the few who knew that l. Q, Dickenson and family, who lived on Lower Agua Fria, Yav. apai county. Arizona, had daughter. who was beguiled into loving Mir. Blythe, not wisely, as is alleged, but too well. Since the death of Blythe, ms inamorata, Miss Dickensou, alleges that Blythe and she were secretly married, winch, if true, Blythe did net long find a home in her heart, but turned from her for repose in the afiec- ton of Miss Julia Perry, who by in- yitation, visited Mir. Blythe at his lodgings. No, 10 Donahue Place. Lon don, "and had glass of wine with him, which, in due time, resulted in eongratulatory letter, dated San Francesca, from Blythe to My dear Julia, in London, upon the arrival of httle stranger and her safe recovery" That wine fructiied, and in due time, swelled Julia nobly out. The little stranger" was named Florence Blythe, and is tue same youthful stranger now contending for recognition as inheri- trix of the estate of Thomas H. Blythe.
 From what VIC have read concern ing Blythe he had need to ask his maker to forgive his trespasses, winch was moro than is alleged, the En- glished government was willing to accord and, consequently, sent him, while yet youth, to penal colony.
 Since the parents of Alice Edith Diekenson, subsequently, Mrs Blythe, were once residents of Arizona, a rel erence to them willuot be cut of place. Her father, l. c. Dickenson, was com missioned by Mr. Linceln, as United States Marshal of Auzona. He be- came defaulter to the government and slapped the Territory. His wife, the mother of Alice, subsequently, be- came enamored of T. E. Jones, com. lnonly known as Adobe Jones, of Globe, and married him, but finding no silver lining to the cloud that en. eircled their hymenial life, they sepa- rated and she applied for and obtained . divorce. Her next appearance Tn court was before Justice c. 4. Swasey, ln Globe, wherein she and George B. Shepard were defendants upon the charge, preferred by A. c. Pendleton, of the felonious attempt 10 murder John 0. Syme. Sam H. Wildy-the man who stole saw mill--appeared an behalf of Mrs. E. A. Jones, and B. F. L. Goodwin, for George B. Shepard, and upon hearing Shepard was dis. charged, upon the testimony ot Mrs. Jenes, and she held in the sum of s2,000 to await the action of the grand jury,
 The coroners jury, composed of ". Wilson, C. Prather, J. II. Hise, T. B. Jones, Albert T. Lea, F. W. West. meyer, Joseph Chamberlin and Gee, A. Allen, returned the following, which is an extract from the verdict: 'Ihat the name of the deceased was John .. Syme, native of the United States, aged thirty.three years. That he came to his death on the 10th day September, 1878, at hl8 residence in Globe, Tn the sad county of Pinal, by means ofa pistol shot wound in the head made by a pistol fired by the hand of one Mrs. E. A. Jones, from the inside of her residence Tn sad Globe, on the night of the 30th day of August, 1878, as this jury believe, with felonious intent" The appear ance of the ex-husband upon the cor oners jury was the subject ofunfayor- able comment, but as he was man of little force of character, and not likely to influence a verdict, the matter soon ceased to be spoken of
 
 The writer was present when Mrs. Jones and Shepard were arrested Immediately after the shooting of Syme they had locked the door and