The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-20
"REMINISCENCES OF ,
I THE MULVANEYS\


The Mulvaneys. who occupied the public
! eye in Salt Lake in a most conspicuous
way couple of years ago. and then
FADED out of view, have again been heard
/ of. A gentleman, recently returned frono
New York. says he saw Mrs. Muivaney
at the commercial capital and that she
was cutting wide swath. 1.-The old
man, her husband, died while ago and
she inherited his millions. and is spending
| the com like a princess, not however
with her old lover Valentine Sadie grew
! weary OF the raven-locked. spectac,ed
J panions with whom il is reported she
merrlly whites away the time as of old
She hasn't forgotten Salt Lake. and de-
clares her intention of visiting the scene
of her former exploits this summer.
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The Mulvaney-s when here before oc-
cupled the attention of the courts and of
some of the brightest legal gentlemen in
the city for many weeks Thomas Null
vaney, the husband. was much older than
his wife He was very rich and so COM
plete slave to the liquor habit that he
was never known to be sober during his
stay here He and Mrs. Mulvaney we're
accompanied by a young man named
Valentine All three put up at the Tenn
pleton hotel and lived on the best the
hotel afforded, and champagne flowed
as freely as water, all at the expense or
the cd man.. One fine morning Null
Naney found that his wife and Valentine
had disappeared and at the same time
about $4,000 in cold cash which he car
ried about him as loose change ond
large quantity of diamonds and other
jewelry also disappeared. He swore TO
complaints charging his wife with rob-
bling him and Valentine with committing
adultery with her. He also claimed thai
he had decided her real property in New
York worth several hundred thousand del
lars. and that she had taken away the
deeds The fleeing couple were traced to
FL PaSo, Tex, en- route TO Old Mexico
and on Geographic instructions they were
arrested at FL Paso and held for nearly
a week while requisition papers were got
ten out and Captain Donovan arrived al
FL Paso to bring them back. While they
were under arrest there they consulted
lawyers, who made efforts to have them
released by means of habeas corpus pro-
paid out about $1,000 as retainers and at
torneys' fes in the Texas city.
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Captain Donovan arrived Just in time |
to catch them before they crossed the line |
10 Old Mexico Once there they would |
have been safe. as the reuusition with |
which he was armed would have been no
virtue in that republic They were |
brought back to Salt Lake and at the !
police station on the night of their ar |
rival Mrs Mulvaney made restitution 10
tate to him. Then the federal authorities
pressed the charges of adultery AGAINST
both Valentine and Mrs. Mulvaney, and
both were put under very heavy bonds
however, relented, and through
his influence suretses were found for his
wife, but Valentine had to go to jail pend
ing the trial and while he was in durance
Mrs. Mulvaney visited him as frequently
as the authorities would permit and kept
him supplied with flowers, champagne
and other delicacies.
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When the cases came up for trial the
I'D man. refused 10 testify against either
If them and was sent to jail for contempt
If court and he and Valentine were
iriven to the penitentiary in the same
wagon, and remained there for a season.
While Mrs Mulvaney occupied the finest
'uite of rooms at the Knutsford hote,
was obdurate and the prosecu-
ion were unable 10 convict either of
hem. so one morning United States Dis
riot Attorney Judd came into court and
tated to the judge that the only way to
id the territory of the dirty mess" was
o dismiss the. indictments on condition
hat all three leave Utah at the earliest
,ossible moment. II was so arranged |
nd the precious trio departed together |
MT left among the legal fraternity of
his city something like $4,000 in payment
or professional services and several thou-
and dollars for hotel and incidental ex-
enses.