The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-16
HIS RUNAWAY WIFE,
DIR. A. G. Lawson, of Our Town,
Finds her in Memphis.
A STORY OF TWO DEAR HUSBANDS.
While the Course of True Love Never Rnns
Smooth, it often Runs Away, as this
Tale Proves

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 15.-ISpecial tele-
gram TO The HERALD. DIR. A. G. Law
son, OF Salt Lake city, after hunting the
country over, found his wife in this CITY
tnls morning with printer named NJ. A.
cooper. The woman is young and good
looking, and while not denying her martial
relatons to Lawson, says she is the wife
Oh Cooper Threats of prosecution
for bigamy induced Cooper to relinquish
MS claim. The doctor and his wife will
leave for San Francisco to-day. Mrs. Law
son IS the daughter of Colonel William
Wallace, who was commander in the late
war of the Third Missouri regimentof cav
airy on the federal side. He was killed in
battle toward the close of the strug-
gle BY marriage she is neice
oil General Lew Wallace, General Wallace
having married her fathers sister. In the
fall OF 1888, she married Dr. A. G.. Lawson.
Inls marriage occurred near Salt Lake
city. Their marriage, however, turned
out badly, and proved to be failure from
the beginning. The woman claims that
Lawson developed into a cruel and heart
less master, and that to escape his perse-
cutions, she abandoned him. she claims
to have met Cooper, husband No. 2,
at Denver, Colo, in 1883, and they vera
married in that city On Septemb Der 10 Of
that year. Lawson subsequently found
them IN Pueblo, Colo, and took his wife
away from Cooper, carrying her back with
him to Salt Lake city. She deserted Law
son in few weeks and Joined Cooper
at Ogden, Utah, on the 18th of last August
and came with him to this city. Lawson
began search for her at once accompanied
by his little three-year-o boy and has
Travelled since that time nearly all over the
United States. He arrived in this
city night before last and reported
his mission at once to the police authori
ties. To-day he met Cooper on the street,
and had him arrested. The wife came to
the station to see husband NO. 2 and was
confronted by husband No l, and after a
stormy interview agreed to forsake
Cooper.
10 your correspondent she stated that
she married Cooper because she believed
Lawson was dead. Lawson tells a differ
ent story, and he says his wife left him to
go to San Francisco for the purpose of
selling some real estate that they owned
jointly in that city% He denies any knowl-
edge Of, or acquaintance with Cooper, and
declares that he never saw him in his life
until yesterday morning. He says
that his wife sold the property in
San Francisco for $500 and wired him
to that effect, bidding him to meet her in
New York city. Subsequently she sent
him another telegram commanding him to
meet her in Chicago, but she was not there.
He then began to scour the country Last
Wednesday while in Denver Cooper's
brother-inlaw told him that Cooper
and Mrs. Lawson were in Memphis
together He took the first train for this
city. When asked what his wife had done
with the $4,000, he said that he supposed
she and Walker had spent it. He expresses
belief that Cooper has some undue infiu-
ence over his wife and has forced her to
live with him.