The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-24
Mrs. Lizzie Rich Charged with a
Serious and Revolving Offense.
SENT TOTHE PENITENTIARY.
WHILE HER ALLEGED PARAMouR
GOES FORTH ON B0SDs.
Nellie Bonner Defes the Commits
siOner and Is Committed for Con-
tempt Until Such Time as She Re-
Iaxes-The Eardly and Brown
Examinations.

The girl wife of a prosperous Rich
county farmer was yesterday placed
in the penitentiary to await trial on an
indictment charging her with adul-
terry. the correspondent and paramount
a duslky descendant of Senegambia
j The case, as exempiifying the frail-
ties of woman, is as pitiful as it is re-
voting, and should the slight young
creature over whose life the scandal is
towering, succeed in convincing a jury
OF her innocence, no measure of retri-
button can be too severe for her perse-
cutors.
Lizzie Upton, 10 years of age, a wee
parcel for wife and mother of an in
rant, resided at Randolph Rich county,
with the man to whom, at unsophisti-
Gated 16, she was married in Paris
Idaho. Removing to Randolph. near
Wnlch her young husband had ac-
CURED ranch, they settled down full
OF nope. For more than a year they
lved in perfect happiness and finally,
TO help the little craft upon which they
We're drifting along, she consented to
take lodger
Henry Carter a powerful smithy
who FORCES the hot iron. was admitted
10 the family dwelling. True, he was
co!ored man, but over in that COM
linunlty the color-line is not drawn as
rlgldly as in some others, and so no
fConiineht was made. BY and by the
luelnS tongue Of calumny began to
wdg ana 1t was whispered round
among the neighbors that the girl
wife and the dark-visaged boarder
We're guilty of criminal intimacy. This
Hnaily reached the young husbands
ear ana several persons all of whom
Gehlea their guilt, were taken to task.
On the night of February 8. the hus-
pano was sent upon a wild goose chase
an9 IN search of cattle which he was
told had strayed from their grazines
absented himself from the dwelling
AT $50 the young wife was aroused bv
d rap at the door and without fu,.the1;
ceremony two officers entered. Lizzie
o oIey say was partially disrobed, the
alisseo paramount lying in bed
anu awaiting his prey They
We VIZ p9th arrested and scurried
over peak and plain taken before TTTi-
yea States Commissioner Fernes. of Og-
uen, Inc husband, who had been sent
70 the ranch upon a story that was
MnoiIy a ruse, was Mortified upon re-
turning 70 an empty dwelling, and fol-
lowing the alleged adulterous couple to
0sdeh, heard the story from their lips.
ne was convinced that some dreadful
mistake mad been made. The commits
Sloner was not, and the twain were
bound over to the action of the grand
jury which returned indictments
against them. Even this failed TO
Dudge the confidence of the husband in
the girl Wifes story, and signaling his
own mother bonds were rendered her
Ihe woman had been aroused, however
and rejecting the outstretched hand of
friends as she did the assaults of the
enemy expressed a determination to
work out her own redemption Spurn-
ing the assistance that had been offered
she walked forth with Deputy Marshal
Davis, and yesterday afternoon found
herself in custody of Marshal Brigham
pending trial that has been set down
for March 6.
AS she sat alone and defiant in the
| ANTE chamber of the marshars office. a
Herald reporter procured her story in
which she denied the charge, adding
that for some time she had been an
noyed by the SANDER of neighbors, but
had decided that silence was the best
Icourse That on the night of her ar
rest she was engaged in stitching upon
lsOme garment while her alleged para
mour, the blacksmith, was mending a,
chair, and that she was as innocent as
her return in the cradle. She denies
than in his shirt sleeves as was his
custom at the anvil and at home, or
that she had removed any part of her
apparel.
The little woman tells a very straight
Istory. and with stamp of her foot de-
clared that it was all a case of perse-