The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-02
SERIOUS CHARGE
AGAINST WOMAN
Sadie Clark Is Alleged to Have
Persuaded Two Girls to
Go Wrong.
COMPLAINT is SWORN TO
TWO PRETTY GIRLS TELL STORY
DUPLICATING WOMAN AND MAN

The county attorneys Office now has
a tangled mess to unravel and. after
whole day over It yesterday, COM
plant was sworn out by Guardello
Brown, chief probation officer, against
Sadie Clark cn the charge Of procuring.
This is the first case of the sort in the
state, and on conviction, il is punish
able by five years in the state prison,
by fine OF 81 900. or both.
Mixed up IN the affair are Mrs Louise
Clark. against whom a similar charge
will be made: Amanda Price, aged u
years. and an orphan. and Eta WeaY-
er, who says she Is - years OF age, q
daughter OF John G. Weaver.
Sadie Clark is alleged to have induced
the Price girl to 20 TO 80 Electric. the
stockade district, on Friday night, Tor
an immoral purpose. The two Clark
women are also said 10 have induced
the Price girl and Eta Weaver TO 80 TO
the stockade. Mixed Up in the AFFAIR
s. pretty Jessie HildebTand. or Hart
man. the 17-yeaT-Old bride who recent
~ obtained a divorce in the district
court on grounds OF cruelty on the part
OF her husband.
Arrests Yesterday.
The Price girl was taken from the
stockade early yesterday morning by
Guardello Brown. Her brother-in-law,
Ernest Andrews. notified Deputy Sheriff
Burton H. Seager that she was there
and Brown was sent for and took her
out Andrews took her TO his home Tor
the rest Of the night, and later the two
Clark women were arrested. Mrs.
Clark. when arrested. said her name
was Greer but the officers believe her
name to be Clark, though this Is not
at all certain.
Mrs. Clark made several attempts 10
escape from the custody of the sheriff 5
men during the day. One of these
caused much merriment for those IN
the city and county building. Sheriff
Ioe c. sharp had left her alone for a
moment in his private Office, and soon
after she was seen holding up her skirts
and getting over the city and county
lawn toward Second East at a lively
clip. She gave the officers a hard
chase and was finally caught in barn
off Second East. Closer watch was
kept over her after that and she was
allowed 10 go during the afternoon,
though she is still under surveillance
The Girls Story.
The story told by the two girls is
much the same. amanda Price tried TO
teu Probation Officer Brown that she
was 10 years old. but the brother-ln-la Jaw
and sister said different She certainly
does not appear TO be even 1, years OF
age. She said that she went TO a room
ing house early Friday evening 10 stay
with her chum. the Weaver girl Be
tween . and 10 o'clock Miss Clark came
10 the house and induced them TO go 10
the stOckade.
Eta -Feaver tells much the same
story. though she did not account Tor
her absence from nome or her presence
at the West Side rooming house oht
remained in the stockade all night ana
was taken away yesterday morning
The officers of the juvenile court mao ~
case against her. as she is now OF age
though she had been q ward OF th5
court fo- incorrigibilitH-
Mrs. Clark's Denial.
Mrs Clark denies beng privy to any
v,ronedoing on either her daughters OF
the girls part She is a prim Mite
woman with a sharp tongue ana d
warm temper. as the officers learned
Little is known Of the Clarks- They
insisted that their real name is Greer
81 hut this was not accepted. They tooh
the house at So Electric alley on Apr
% The daughter came from PocateiiO
The police claim that both mother an,
daughter have been engaged IN hilcl
business i'm Salt Lake for some years
The daughter, Sadie. IS a decloeuN
prettv girl about % years Of age. Sh'
stood her examination and listened t'
The charge yesterday with much more
compcsure than the mother
The authorities believe that the!
have grounds for raiding some of th'
roomine houses. They say they are no
disclosing ali the girls told them The!
have the names Of several men. SOM
of them well along in years, who ar
apparently likely TO be mixed up in tn
affair. ,
The case against Sadie clark VII
come before Judge Bowman MolloS'
morning. II is not known what viii o.
5,,o With the mother or the girls.