The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-25
THE END OF A SCANDAL.
A MARRIAGE LICENSE UNLOCkS
THE PRISON DOORS.
Joseph Baker and Mrs. Annie Jobc
Leave the Penitentiary to Be-
come Husband and wife.

On the night of February last while
Illicit love was mapping in cabin on
the banks of riotous stream near
Park City, the sleuths swept down upon
it and Joseph Baker and Mrs. Annie
Jobe We're hurried over to the Jail to
answer to charge of fornication. Yes
terday afternoon the twain, who have,
since the night of their apprehension,
languished within prison walls, were
escorted before Judge Blair and were
married.
a tale more weird than that which
led up to this denouement was never
told in fiction.
Months before had discord and dis
grace settled down upon the squalid
house of lobe. The husband was
worthless vagabond who made no pre-
tense of concealing his laziness, who
skulked indoors by day and prowied
I by night, while the woman, misguided
thing, toiled and struggled TO fight
away the wolf. Among other things
she took with her upon taking up with
Jobe was a daughter who was Just de-
iveloping into womanhood. Absent most
of the day, the mother OF the weak
D creature never suspected that she was
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a beast until her attention was aroused
by neighbors, who shook their heads
and declared that the relations between
the foster father and the girl were re-
voltingly unnatural. The mother then
began to watch and as weeks multi
piled themselves into months the truth
of the scandal was forced upon her.
That the girl, now II years Of age, had
erred was emphasized more and more
each day. Mrs. lobe was Mortified. De-
handing of the girl the name Of the
man who had caused her shame, she
reluctantly confessed that it was Jobe
himself. Frenzied, the mother at once
sought redress and Jobe was dragged
up on a charge of incest. The wretch
was bound over to the action of the
grand jury and the prospect of spend
ing term in the peniteutiary becom-
ing brighter each day he fled the Coun
try. Meanwhile there was an accouch-
ment at the house of lobe and the
woman who had without ceremony,
taken the wretch's name, awoke to
find herself a grandmother. Mother
and babe thrived while the grand
mother began casting about for an
other alliance.
/ In the same locality was a COW her
der who had long cast sleeps eyes at
4 Mrs. lobe and one evening he called at
the cabin with a wound in his leg. 1t
had been accidentally inflicted by the
herder himself. Pluuging over the hills
in pursuit of his fugitive herds,
his revolver had been discharged
and bullet tore its way into his leg.
/ 1t was here that Joe Baker, the tall,
rawboned herdsman who looks after
/ Reef Bros. long horns on hat range,
came upon the scene. With a mother
of IL and a garrulous babe for whom
! to provide, life for the grandma had
already waXed monotonous and she
volunteered to nurse the herdsman
through his illness. OF course holy
love lit its slender tapirs and Tiled the
squahd chamber with its profane in
cense. The patient recovered rapidly
under these attentions, rather relished
( the role of grandpa to the cooling
thing that gamboled at mis- feet and
/ finally determined to settle down in
permanent lodgings there. This was
| the lawless condition of the cabin cote
when the deputy marshals descended
( upon 1t on the night of February
and robbed 1t of its doves.
I Ever since have the naughty twain
! been trying to procure their ransom.
| They We're prepared to make any sac
rlfice-Set married if the authorities
required it-and this having been con-
Neyed to the United States district at
/ torney' Office his big, chivalrous heart
was touched and he consented to the
| arrangement.
! Early yesterday afternoon while new
mated sparrows cooed on tree and
| housetop. the doors of the pen, at a
signal from Marshal Brigham. opened
! their iron jaws and the trring twain
came forth to attend their weddirS
which, it was arranged, should occur
] before Judge Blair
/ At o'clock the doors of the "receu-
! ton ROOM that recognizes no favor
lte, rich or poor, opened to hem. Be
tween his teeth the prospective groom
held a pipe the smoke from vFhich was
bride
1t was her next smoke and as she
began to draw upon it The lferaid's
emissary entered.
Going to be married as Mrs. Annie
Jobe| enquired the timid McAlIister
Nope; m not" was the reproachfui
reJolnder as the approaching bride
puited away at the pipe and sent forth
/ a dense cloud of smoke. I'm oT,in;
to be married by my right name
And that?'
Annie Lavender, sir, to Mr. .Josanb
Baker, WI 'oSe'h
! AT this juncture Deputy District At
( torney Richards made his apnaa rance
ana admonishing the couple that fhev
would not be released until the knot
was tied, they were soon busting in
+ the direction of the altar The cera-
j mohy having been performed and Mrs
joe BaHef pronouncing the judge who
presided splendid gentleman" the
fance. "''iu ue-
CUTRCU DJEsErTnDv