The morning call., 1893-05-20

Steau OI Delne tuo WHY
r. C. Dyer. love and legal helpmate
of her alleged Iiege lord she was relegated
into that distant vista that horsem en- call
''shOw." She was wife No. 8. in fact, and
the court understood that she had grounds
for complaint and released her from all
irkSome fetter.
Rudolphus c. Dyer was a manicure and
magnetic healer in this city before he de-
cided it best to mike himself scarce In this
locality and infllct himself on another.
He was imposing and suave. Business
was good with him, and while he made no
particular splurge in the way of carriages,
drives, dinners and those seductive things
that usually catch the female fancy. he
got in his deadly work by the simple laying
on of his magnetic hands. by the look of
his large ,ustrOus brown eyes and the oily
wag of his tongue.
Mrs. Dyer No. 3-it is as we'll to begin
right here and number the Mrs. Dyers-
was a widow Ashton before she met and
married the magnetic Dyer on November
%, 1891 As may be observed the court
ship was of short duration, lasting but
"the life of rose. the space of one day."
They met; he rubbed herin professional
way and cured her troubles. Meanwhile
he proposed and she accepted him. The
license was obtained and marriage ensued
in due form. That is the marriage that
Judge Sanderson annulled.
i ne lTlPDuS OIL MIS-. ASUtOD-DVer are IN
a great Quandary why this annulment of
marriage should have taken place. The
couple were evidently in good circum-
stances and the wife adored her husband.
The latter was less demOnstrative than
his spouse in displaying his affection, but
this was no doubt due to the fact that he
was reigiously inclined and quite saGcti-
monious so far as his associates could OBJ
serve.
Taking it all in all. they were model
couple for year or more and the envy OF
every one coming in contact with them.
A time came, however, when things did
not move along so smoothly. 1t was
when an outside affair cropped up and
gave the first pitch to the SNOWFALL that
landed at the feet of Mrs. Dyer and froZe
all the love she had in her heart for her
husband.
1t cane about IN this way: Mrs F. La
Hottie. the widow of Frenchman Ion g
since deceased, lives in Napa, where she
is deeply interested In civil suit that cuts
no figure in this present story excepting e
that 1t gives the starting point of the Dyer
scandal. Mrs. La Hottie is sister of Mrs.
AshtOn-Dyer, and during the progress OF
her civil suit the opposing side produced a
witness named Mrs. Amanda Dyer.
The latter and Mrs. La Hottie subse-
quently met and the widow told how
Strange it was that a witness against her
should be named Dyer.
''Why," she explained, "that is exactly
my married sisters name. My sister Mar
cissa married Rudolphus c. Dyer a couple
of years ago."
Mrs. Amanda Dyer declared this to be
an impossibility, as she was still in the
throes of divorce from the same Ru-
dolphus G. Dyer, who had married her in
1876 in Salt Lake City.
Well, TO make their excited conversation
short, the two women decided to see Mrs.
Narclssa j. Dyer and straighten out mat
ters. This only tangled them up more.
However, the meeting of the two Dyer
women brought TO light that there was an
other Mrs. Dyer that outclassed them both
in point of precedence and who is entitled
to be called Mrs. Dyer No. 1.
| Mrs. Amanda Dyer. or No. q told her
story. saying that she was captvated by
| her suitor ard listened too willingly to hi
open marriage ceremony performed, be-
cause it might just then interfere with his
| business relations. He did what his af.
fianced thought to be the right thing. and
drafted an elaborate marriage contract, in
which he declared and she acquiesced thai
they should both henceforth live as man
and wife and regard each other as SUCH
with all the love, affection, obedience and
| protection that go with the most cast
| iron certificates that come from the regu.
| lar fOundrieS.
Everything moved along smoothly until
one dark day when inquiries were made
| from Warren County, Pa. The Postmas-
ter there inquired of his brother Post
master in Salt Lake if he could not dis.
cover the whereabouts of one RudOlphus
c. Dyer He was the one man on eartt
that a Mrs. PDenay Dyer was seeking
| That lady. SO the Warren County Post
master said, was anxious 10 learn of The
whereabouts of her husband. who had dis
appeared few months after their mar
riage, that took placs in 1871
Unfortunately for Rudolphus the Post
master at Salt Lake called at Dyer's house
when he e., was out All Mrs. Dyer No.
Then there was aaarapus that Mr.. DYE,
could only square I antlllng the true stor,
and promising he would 90 back to Penn
sylvania and get divorce from Mrs
Pheney Dyer and come back and marry
| Mrs. Amanda Dyer according to the law,
of the Territory and the church.
He kept his word. to some extent n
least. s1e went to Pennsylvania. Their,
he met his first love, Mrs. Phenev Over
and they resumed their old relations. Mrs
Pheney Dyer (No. y did not know wher,
the truant had been all these years, bu
sire forgave him and was happy to Kill TIL,
fatted calf upon the return OF the prodgal
But Amanda, or wife No. 2. soon weariec
| at being LETT out In the cold and she begar
her pursuit which ended in her discover,
that she had been entirely discarded.
Rudolphus then carried out part of hi
promise he had made to Amanda, or wifi,
No. 2. and he got out divorce papers. Bn
the cunning fellow inserted Amanda
| name Instead of Pheney's.
This created such trouble tina