The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-16
Girl Who Won Hearts of Police
men Is Disclosed as a
Scarlet Creature.
HER LOVER IS JAILED.
AND THEN RELEASED
She Returns to Denver, After
Accusing Husband of
Debauching Her.

Mrs Ettie Southworth, aged II years,
consented to return to Colorado with
out extradition Wednesday, after Bert
Macarthur, her alleged lover. had been
arrested on complaint of her brother
on charge Of sustaining illicit rela-
tions with her, and when she was
confronted with the prospect of hav-
ing to testify against him. She is
wanted in Colorado on a charge of
breaking her parole from the State
reform school, and she left for Denver
Wednesday afternoon in company with
Mrs. Josephine Pearsall, matrou of the
reform school
Wednesday afternoon was pregnant
with developments in the Southworth
case. and when the whole story came
out Chief of Police George A Sheets
and his subordinates changed their
minds about Mrs. Southworth, and had
concluded that she was hardly the in
nocent and wronged girl that she made
herself out to be.
Husband and Brother Complain.
Mrs. Pearsall arrived in the morning
to take the girl back to Denver. She
had scarcely arrived in the city when
Mrs. Southworth s brother and her
husband appeared al the police station
demanding warrant for the arrest of
Held Engraving company, and who
knew Mrs. Sonthworth in Colorado
They were referred TO AssistanL
County Attorney Job P, Lyon, who
caused the issuance of a warrant for
Macarthur s arrest. The warrant was
sworn to by Earl Parrish, Mrs. South
worth S brother.
Then the husband, who is cook,
caused Mrs. Southworth s bondsmen,
who secured her release when she was
arrested Saturday as q fugitive, to
to the city Jail. There she was locked
up, while Mis-. Pearsall set about to
get extradltion papers.
Wife Accuses Husband.
Husband and wife confronted each
other in the city Jail. and it soon de-
velopeo that when Mrs Southworth
house Of ill-repute at 651a Commercial
street She accused her husband of
placing her there.
You ale a dirty cur she de.
clared. ''You put me in that kind of
d place in Durango just after we were
married.
The angry wife, while admitting her
relations with Macarthur, declared that
the latter had befriended her, and
that he had taken her out of the
bTothel where her husband had placed
her. She declared that she would not
testify against MeArthuT. Finally she
consented To return without cXtradition
papers.
Meanwhile Assistant County Attor-
ney Lyon had been investigating the
case, and concluded that no Jury would
convict Macarthur of the charge against
him. Accordingly, at the afternoon
session of the Police court, he moved
to dismiss the charge against Nc.
Arthur, and the court granted the mo.
ton.
Police We're Sympathetic.
Mrs. Southworth was arrested last
Saturday by Detective Frank Wheel.
ing at the request of the Colorado
Her husband and brother
went to the police station with her.
and secured bail for her in the sum of
5000. The story they then told the
police was that She had married South.
worth with her mother s consent;
.ha5 while she was visiting her
mother in Colorado she was sent to the
'eform school, and that when she |
vas paroled for good behavior she broke
Ter parole by leaving the State and
coming to her husband in Salt Lake,
From all appearances the girl was |
eadlng . good life here with her hus,
'and, and tho police were inclined to
with her and to feel that
he should not be torn from her loving
husband, From her own statement
lowever,. she entered disorderly
louise when she came here, and her
uspand $50 was party to her entering it.
The girl S mother IT. is said st;u
ives in Colorado. The girl herself is
pretty little bit of femininitv. with
demure manner and innocent wavs,
several wise policemen are inclined TO
lck themselves for being taken in by
he aforesaid demure manner aud ;rno