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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-27
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foot Return 1853 Somcrby &c. or Telephone
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-27
AFFIDAVIT OF
WIDOW SMITH,
Ailirms that She Became the
Plural Wife Of Prophets
Brother IN 1913
JOSEPH PERFORMED CEREMONY
Vain Efforts Of Members OF the Re-
organized Church TO Get the Deceas'
cd to Rcednt Her Testimony

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t,rt,, ,,,,o,i,cto,,so rrid,y San, %
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attend.
The passing ~ Mrs Smith removes
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rom ACTIVITY o woman VINO '''' " llo''
able message in me form of an atlda'
VII made something over two years ago.
rl.. .g,.,,,,o, 40 10 the sfrs.t that
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sue WIS '"' piu.'' WE vi i''I'''"
HHrum smith, and that the ceremony
chat made her such yas performed by
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't'-' '''''' "''
nave Ut'n EFFORTS made To- persuade h'F
90 make % denial OF this fact. But AL
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'' NUS p''''''' ~ .,'' P'
uon ON ms point. IN mlnd tnal was
Temirk'nly clear ana slrons 70 the very
I'sl aAe niln'alned the accuracy OF ner
statements
WOULDN'T RECANT.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-27

For tombstones and monuments and
markers 90 10 Doyer's,73 w So. Temple
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THE BRlGADIERS
DIVIDEND NOTICE.

THE HOME FIRE tNSTR.
ANCE co. or UTAH The
regular quarterly dividend OF
uer cent ON the capital stock Of
this company will be- payable at
thc office OF The Company No. ~
Main street Salt Lake CITY,
Utah, on oct 2 1905. The stock
books viii he closed on Sept. e.
1905, at 3 p. M. and rcoponed
Oct 3. 1905. 80 10 a, m.
HORACE q, WHITNEY,
secretary
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-27
TopAYs TEMPERATURES.

r. j HYATT
Local fYIcCastci
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

my life has been d torture. l was in
formed that the district attorney Of
New York was making an investigation
of the case and that indictments might
result at any moment. AS soon as an
indictment was returned l was imme-
diately notified any my flight advised.
Il was then stopping at the ST
Charles Hotel in New Orleans. and was
trying to while away the time in attend
ing the races. One day | received an
envelope of Il ticket broker, suggesting
thai. e | was contemplating a trip, 1
should see him for transportation
AtV guard, a man named BraeCken. an
eynploye OF : = Fuller Detective Agency
| in New = ora, Immediately suspected
| that the DiaSi.E of this envelope II
my box was a .use used by agents OF
| District Attorney Jerome 10 identify me
and such proved to be the case. l Wa
| p1entifully supplied with money. aiie
| Braecken, who was known as Bradley
| always had a large sum of money viii
| him We determineS TO fly to Mexico
and thus preclude the possibility OF cap
| ture and prosecution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
* y
4 Wild Trip.

ours was wild trip. Followed by
Jerome's detectives, it was impossible to
make good our escape. III Houston.
Tex, 1 was arrested, Braecllen wired for
money, and on $4,000 bail 1 was re-
leased. A lawyer, Bradley. came down
from New York to look after me We
determined. to get away as quickly as
possible.
Bradley tried to get tug at Calves
ton to take us TO Mexico oIferiug S.. 200.
out the owner would not permit his
boat to make such d long trip. But for
81 600 he took us to quiz town named
Brownsville.
I'VE learned that we could obtain di-
rect transportation into Mexico from
Alice. Tex, and determined to go there
Meantime our flight had been discovered
and messages We're sent flying to al
the border towns to accomplish my cap
lure by orders of the court that mad adj
mitted me TO bail
'.Then started one of the worst rides
ever had In my life in fifty-tive miles %
sandy Texas desert, jesse as Jerome
detective is known, had obtained clGt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
Is the Ice Trust Responsible7

The theory that it IS not Morse him.
self who is guilty OF trying to be rid
of Mrs. Dodge-Aforse but his enemies,
who have taken this means of hitting
him in a tender SPOT, depends upon
Morse's connection with the Ice trust.
one hot summer day four years ago
the people of this broad country sud-
denly found out that there was an Ice
trust-a man named Charles w. Morse
had quietly been buying up ali the Ice
houses, and he made about S2t. coz. 90 by
the scheme. That scheme, which made
him ricn, has also made him abundantly
y retehed and unhappy.
Mr. Morse, ice king and multl-nliiiion-
aire, soon began to feel the power OF
the press. Ice stock, which had jumped
to Il splendidly high figure, began TO
waver Mr.. Morse had let in few
powerful friends-Nan Wyck, then the
mayor of New York; Carroll. the great
man in Tammany Hall, and some
ethers When the attacks on the Ice
trust began to grow hot ME. Morse
quietly began selling his stock His
Tamniany friends We're heavily inter-
ested in the stock. and anxiously asked
cheerfully assured them that he would
see them through and to hang on to
the stock. AT last the crash came-the
stock fell TO almost nothing, and the
rFaunrnany leaders We're badly bitten.
And when they discovered that their
them high and dry their fury knew no
bounds.
Revenge they would have in any way
that would humble, worry, punish, dis
grace, and, il possible: impo*erish the
| ice king TO a well-known law fra
| they went Yes. said Howe & HummeI.
| we guess we can reach hin-througA
| his wife.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
Dodge Perfumes Himself.

II came to New York in the summer
of that year and took the position of
night clerk in the Long Beach Hotel on
Long Island Then a curious thing hap
pened. l was told that as another man
mad been served with the decree of
divorce granted my wife. 1 had a right
to make an affidavit to this effec: and
thereby have the decree nul1ified. More
over 1t was pointed out to me that if
/ would do this a powerful and rich
man would provide me with all the
money 1 wanted to live in ease and
comfort. l agreed.
NV involuntary. espionage commenced
the cay that 1 signed the affidavit in
New York stating that l had never been
served with a summons in my wife $
divorce suit From that moment TO the
present hour / have been constantly
in the custody of some representative
| of those who became my eaptors
through the use of money. When
! returned South. my guard was always
| with me, and l was kept constantly in
| formed of the developments IL New
/ York
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

Here is chronological history Mrs Ciemence u
is central figure. which has developed into most anna
October 1s54clemenee CowIes. who afterward became
noted for her beauty, born.
March 15 l8T7-Clemence Cowes was married Charles
Foster Dodge in Francisco Dodge they had money
April. 18Ss-Mrs Dodge. stormy domestic expert
ence separated her husband opened board
ing house in West Forty-fourth street, New York
city. 1t this place that Charles w. Morse who
afterward became the Ice Trust King, met Mrs.
Dodge. Mr.. Morse then living with his family at
7z4 Fifth
January ss9s-Adrs obtained of absolute
divorce from Dodge in this city statutory grounds
April 1sOo-Mrs. Morse died, the of
Morse placed in charge of relative in Bath,
Me. Shortly after Dodge gave up the board
ing and went TO live at the Waldorf-Astora-
June 49, 190l-Ars. the wife of Morse.
magnate. who then reputed to be worth
s2oo000oo
october 49, sos-The divorce by
her husband while Mrs. Dodge was set aside
by Judge Scott the ground of collision and fraud
Morse again became Mrs. Dodge.
January T. se4-Upon application of Mrs AorseDodge
the supreme court annuled marriage Mrs
Morse to Morse, and she became legally the wife
oil Dodge.
January o. 1so4-Mrs Dodge begins against
Dodge divorce.
February ! 1eoetters Dodge found which show that
Dodge had authorized Lawyer Mortimer Kruger act
him in Mrs Dodge's original divorce suit which
destroyed the charge divorce had been OBJ
tanned by collision
February 8 lso-Dodge indicted perjury. committed
in obtaining annulnent Mrs. Dodges decree of
divorce.
February g. ppcation by Morse to the supreme
court permission intervene and have the orig
inaI Dodge divorce reinstated-
April 1so-Judge hearing before areferee
does this, she again becomes Mrs. Morse, except
annument Of marriage.
November 49, 190The appellate division decides finally
that Morse is legally divorced from Dodge, that
her annunent of the marriage TO Morse is void and
that she is n wife of Charles w. Morse, the
king.
December s. 1sO4-charles w. Morse sails Europe
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
Jerome's Net IS Drawing Closer Around
Principal Actors in Conspiracy to
Put Aside Charles w.
Morse's Wife.
Closer Around
to
Morse Wife

Morse's marriage to Morse was declared
void, and she again became the wife-in-
Law of Charles w. Morse.
For more than year District Attor-
ney Jerome has tried to unrayel the tan
gled strands which surround this case
with mystery. He has had against him
men of influence and wealth, which.
coupled with brains, have made the
fighting desperate It is said that the
expense of bringing Dodge back TO New
York from Texas, whittier he was huT-
ried By order of the parties interested in
keeping him out of the way and in col
lecting the odds and ends OF information
in regard to the case mount well up
into the thousands; the sum has been
put in round numbers at S35, 900.
Dodge's story. told in his own words
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

New York. It was there that she met
Charles w Morse.
IN 1898 1 went to Atlanta, Ga, and
became manager of the Hotel Aragon-
One day l was told that my wife was
waiting for me in the parlor. l was
much surprised as | had neither seen
nor heard of her for several years. She
remained in Atlanta four or five days
during which time ! consented to her
plan Tor getting q divorce. In due time
the divorce proceedings came up in New
York and l was represented by law
yer named Mortimer \. Rutger- In the
regular course of events the decree sep
afating us was granted, Mrs. Dodge
paying all the costs. This was in Jan
uary 1898
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

~ LOSER and closer draws the net
/ woven by District Attorney
Y Jerome, Of New York about the
principal actors in the Dodge
Morse divorce case In which it has been
alleged that powerful conspiracy
backed by millions, was formed to put
aside Charles w Morse's wife who was
formerly Mrs Dodge. OF the four per-
sons who have played the chief roles IN
this drama, two are in the United states
and two are abroad, one in Europe, and
the other in Africa. The tV-0 who are
in this country are mers. Morse and
Dodge; the two abroad, women, Mrs
Dodge Morse and Mrs. w. II. Gelshenen
Both of the men have appeared be-
fore the grand jury in New York. Dodge
has made a full confession, which he
has sworn to and placed in the hands o.
the district attorney. This confession
contains the truth of the affair as lar as
Dodge has been permitted to know IT.
He the tool of the conspirators, was In
a position to tell who were his en-
pioyers and how he was paid. Beyond
this il Is improbable that he could throw
any light On the affair. The answer to
the question: Why was this conspiracy
formed? the grand jury was conlpelieo
TO seek elsewhere.
Morse the ice King" in his turn
has appeared before the grand jury. 1t
is understood that his answers have been
non-committai, and that to many OF the
questions put him he has refused 70 re-
ply. sheltering himself behind the fact
he is not compelled TO say anything IN
eliminating
When last heard from, Mrs Dodge
Morse, who has been the wife in turn
OF the two men. was in Paris. She has
been declared the wife in law Of Charles
W Morse. Mrs. Gelshenen, for whose
sake. it has been limited, Morse put IN
motion the powerful machine which
should annul his marriage to Mrs
Dodge. is now in Cairo, Egypt, as TAR
as she can get from the annoyance OF
the dfsagreeabIe probfngs or District At
forney Jerome. 1t has been learned on
reIia HE authority that Morse saw Mrs.
CeIshenen in italy Immediately before
Re returned TO this country three weeks
ago. Mrs. GeIshenen left TINS country
fi,rriedly the day after Distflet AtLof~
ney Jerome published letter 10 heI
asking that she appear before me grand
ftsrv to testify in the Morse-Dodge
hIa nl<et Indictment has been brought
agaf,,sf six persons by Jerome IN connec-
- with the Morse-Dodge case. 1nose
iadicfei are charged with conspiracy OF
sl,hornation or both Among those IN
dieted were Edgar l.. Fursnen, former
i,,stjce of the supreme court OF Ne"
Work ard Abraham II. Hummei, OF tae
firm of Hummel x Howe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
Acts in Melodrama.

In nutshell the acts Of the Piay-it
surely rneIotraTnatic, whatever the de-
lueulent may prove-have been as fol-
Ne. Charles F. Dodge was divorced
nm MS wife; Charles W. Morse mar
a the former Mrs. Dodge the divorce
aimed by Mrs. Dodge Morse from
Age was set aside on the ground that
,ad been obtained through collision
fraud. and that the divorce papers
never been served upon Dodge: Mrs.
Morse's marriage 10 a1orse was
led and she became again the legal
# Dodge; IL was proved that Dodge
rliIty OF perjury in obtaining the
setting aside Mrs. Dodge's divorce
airnseIf, and the divorce was rein
the axasaszlsAent Of Mrs. Dodge
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

December g. 1ao-Dodge brought the city by
Attorney Jerome has spent $1,000 to get
him here on the perjury Indictment after having MIN
In Texas, where various stories were told
about trying end his life by drink. While in
Texas ne secured great sums of money from a nhys-
terious delayed him being brought back,
and Mr.. Jerome that if could get at this
would have the inside of the alleged divorce
conspiracy.
1904-Dodge kept from communication with
members firm of Howe & Hummel Former As
Attorney Osborne becomes his ator-
December D. 190-Dodge spends Christmas Day virtual
prisoner in Broadway Central Hotel.
December II Court Justice Edgar
l. Fursman, who represented Mrs Dodge in her suit
marriage with Charles w Morse annulled
summoned before the grand jury
January District Attorney Jeromes detectives
make a sensational of Mrs Gelshenen's Fifth
avenue mansion she has fed Abraham H.
and his law partner A H. Kaffenburg. appear
the grandury witnesses in the Dodge-Morse
scandal
January G. Attorney Jerome makes public
remarkable Mrs. William II. Geshenen, in
viting o appear before the grand jury
January Announcement made that Mrs Ge1shenen
sailed hurriedy for Europe after receiving District
Attorney Jerome's letter.
January TO- 1905 j. Bracken, Dodges financial
agent in Texas, disappears.
January 1905-Judge Fursman and his law partners
appear before the graz n books and records
their office.
January 49, 19a5-Isaac ; H. stenographer
q Humme grand jury. under
Imprisonment ated the sfhdasit by
Charles F. Dodge c 1893. averfing he had
never been in hi divorce
| January 20. 1305-Charles private secretary
brings bankers private nd bank books for
grand jury's scrutiny
January 25, 1905-Charles f. amnea by the grand
January 81 1905-Grand jur3 indictmen.
against six persons, / with conspiracy,
some subornation Judge Fursnan
nd a Hummel. named 'arrant, plead mot
guilty and paroled
| February Is, 1905-Morse grand jury in
New York.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
Many of the Phases of
Sensation Are Very
Mysterious.
Who Gave Dodge Large
Amounts of Money
and Why?
Why IS Mrs. Gelshenen
Now Sojournlng in
Egypt?

to our whereabouts and had gone by fast
train to Brownsville, where ne commu-
nicated with Captain Hughes. OF the
Texas Rangers
Captain Hughes Immediately
phoned to the ranger house along
stage line. directing that we be kept
der close guard, ana we had process
not more than baif way on tsur jour
when Ser6t. Tom Ross, OF the rang
who is the hero OF The Boy Rang
identified US from description and r@
ahead of the coach toward our deSii-
Il was arrested soon after we arriy
at Alice. Then began the trip viii -
ended by landing me III New YORK.
Two Theories.
What was the motive strong enough
to make a man OF wealth party to q
case of perjury, to cause the expenditure
of thousands of dollars to dissolve the
marriage OF Charles W. Morse and Mrs.
Dodge? Two motives have BEEN sug-
gested; first. Morse's love for another
woman and, second, the revenge OF
those men whom Morse did" out or
millions of dollars in the ice trust. Time
alone wiz show which Of these two the
cries, If either, is correct.
The nusand of Mrs, William Fl.
GeIshenen was an intimate friend OF
| Charles ". Morse. They had many
| business interests in common Morse
went frequently 10 the GelsneneE house
| When Mr. GeIshenen died IN 1902 lee LETT
| the mana cement of q large part Of his
! estate in Mr.. Morses hands. Mr. Gels
hensn had prospered and his fortune at
/ the time of his death amounted % about
| So. V00, 600.
Why. it may be asked. If Ne Morse
desired to marry the widow Of his
friend, did he not obtain a divorce from
his wife-Mrs. ge-MoFse-instead or
going 10 the trouble of having the mar
rage annulIed by proving that Mr.. and
| Mrs Dodge mad never been divorced
Those who sustain this theory as an
| explanation of the Dodge-MorSe case.
roflt to the fact that Mrs. Gelshenen Is
a devout Catholic and as such Is hound
not to marry a divorced man.
The happy and luxurious life that Mrs.
Gelshenen has lived IS reflected In he's
face, for. though she is fifty years old.
| her complexion is fresh, her brown hafT
| is without q sign of gray, and her eyes
are as bright as those of a woman OF
thirty-eight or thirty-nine. Her friends
: J. saw She has been q model mother. She
tbas educated her children Thoroughly
, and they are all devoted TO her Thess
r things nave had the effect of pEeserv-
: ing her youthful looks. and few OF those
l who crowded her reee etioDS or ATTENDED,
her dinners knew that she was Gloss
TO the half century mark OF years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
MI. and Mrs. Dodge Separate.

II married Clement CowIes, beauti-
fu1 girl Ct twenty-three. in San Fran
cisco. in 1877. At that time I was in
the employ os the Pullman Palace Car
Con,pallg. Because I could not supply
the furds for my wife TO live as she
wished we had frequent quarreis, which
finally ended in our separating. ten or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26
ADVISED to Flee When Indicted.

when Justice Scott set aside the de-
cree Of divorce III October, 1903, l was
Immediately notified and since that time
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

shows the lengths his hackers were will
ing to go in order to prevent his falling
into the hands of the grand jury. Says
DODGE:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

& ] s e esms s 3 s and as a scandal VIII"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-26

LOSER and closer draws the net
woven by District Attorney
Jerome, Of New York about the
,r;,,o;ref aete.rs in The Dodge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

John, what do you suppose Molly
y Mother and | got to talking about
at the tea this afternoon" asked Mrs.
Gettone, looking up from her darning.
The influence of the binominal
theorem on the proper reduction of hus-
bands trousers to boys kniCkerbockers,
guessed Gettone, emerging from behind
his paper with a smile.
Z" 1t wasn't anything silly; it was per-
fectly Serious" demonstrated Mrs. Get
tone.
Then I give it up-unless it was the
servant-gir1 question:" declared Gettone
positively.
why, we got to comparing husbands" "
Mrs. Gettone explained, coloring up a
little under her husbands astonished
stare
"Humph!" observed Gettone, TN
certain whether to be pleased or alarmed.
We'll, did you decide which was the
more abused wife?"
"We-ell, John, if all Molly says is so
now please don't get cross-Mr, Mother
must be-that is, he-of course | don't
and wouldn't" hesitated Mrs. Gettone,
pricking an elaborate design in her apron
with her needle; but in some ways he's
he's awfully kind and considerate.
And I'm not-is that the correct in
ference?" demanded Gettone, browning.
"We-ell sometimes, John, you are a
little hasty and impatient and sarcastic
when things don't go just right, adj
mitted Mrs Gettone apprehensively
Go on with the Indictment" ordered
Gettone with o1ninous insistence, as she
paused to slyly note the effect of her
words
"And-and you do grumble at the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

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