The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-02

before dawn of another day, sur
rendered her spirit.
Absence of the silent. stealthy figure
| of Mrs. Loveless was not the subject
of comment among the thickly in
habited tenement district where she
/ had taken up her abode The inhabit-
ants of that quarter refer to the dead
woman as one who was a slave to
either drink or some maligant Opiate.
Both LOveless and his spouse were
spurned because of their debauched
habits, a fact that accounts for the
sparse information to be gotten of
them in that section Tales of their
sprees, unattended by any hilarity,
were whispered about the dark little
alleys through which one must crowd
his way to reach the lean-tO where the
body was discovered.
REGARDED WITH DISTRUST.
The couple were regarded with dis
trust. From remarks made by those
who would talk, it was gathered that
Loveless and the woman inspired the
very children with evil suspicious.
These unsocial feelings were returned
by the Lovelesses, who seemed too
fully occupied with their own doings
to become annoyed. LOveless was
usually intoxicated when observed by
the neighborhood. Mrs. Loveless was
generally in the same condition.
With these impressions of the Love-
less family it was perhaps not strange
that nobody gave any thought TO the
disappearance of the woman. We'd
resday passed and yet the window
curtains were not lifted. Thursday and
Friday drifted by and still no signs of
life stirred about the dingy little lean
to, crouching against the brick wall or
a more pretentious tenement Not IN
til Saturday evening did the Grifs-
hot he think Thorn solves of making
an investigation. They reported their
suspicious to Mr.. Hammer. the land
lord of the row, who lived close by.
He paid a man to enter the LoVeless
habitation. for by that time a PRESENT.
ment of some horror brooded over the
little settlement. When the window of
the shack was lifted this mans nos
trils were assailed with the unnistalx-
able atmosphere of death. A Whit Of
the deadly OdOr that rushed from the
small single room sickened him for the
moment.
A CHASTITY SIGHT.
Then he ventured into the apartment
and found stretched along an old bed
stead in a perfectly natural attitude.
the recumbent figure of Mrs. LOvelesS-
Attired in a night dress, the body was
covered with bed clothing TO the arm
pits. II was lying on the left side, the
knees bent and the left arm thrown
cut on the pillow. Inc lace OF me
dead presented a CHASTITY appearance,
being swollen almost beyond express
sion. Undertaken Joseph William Tay-
lor, to whom the body was turned over
by Justice Frank Margetts. pronounced
the woman to have been dead for TWO
or three DAYS.
After the discovery Charles LOveleSS
was aporised of his wife's death and
was released from Jail. He was sur
prised and said that she left him on
Tuesday afternoon in good health. He
denied that she was addicted to liquor
or that he ever treated her badly.
Loveless is utterly destitute, but will
succeed, with the aid of friends. in
giving the woman a respectable flu
neral.
Clerk Shoup of the police court SAYS
that Mrs. Loveless called on him last
week and made an urgent appeal to
nave her husband confined until he got
sober. The woman was evidently sor-
-ow laden and suffering from destitute
circumstances. She said Loveless was
/ first class carpenter and found no
rouble in obtaining work if he re-
NAMED sober. but he had not known
such a condition for a long time She
lid not complain of ill-treatment, but
ack of support. When the man was
lrraigned on Monday, April 20. she
lid not appear against him, but JUS
ice Wenger found him guilty of drunk
,nnesS and IMPOSED e sentence of ten
lays in default of a fine payment.
Mrs Loveless was 81 years of age
md native of Glasgow. Scotland.
IN inquest will be held on Monday at
D. m. before Justice Margetts.