The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-19
PREST ON is
KEPT FROM
HIS WIFE
WOMAN'S PATHETIC STORY AS
TOLD TO A REPORTER.
Wife and Children Of Man Confined in
County jail Are to Be Cast Into
the Street.

The following story Of Preston Is
from the Salt Lake Herald:
In the web and wool Of the life
story Of Harry Preston, the man held
as a witness in the box car robbery
at Uintah which resulted in the mur-
der OF Deputy Sheriff Clark a strange
design of almost fantastic coloring Is
being woven.
Deprived of his liberty and held be-
hind the barred cage awaiting a trial
that may mean for him prison SEN
tence. Preston refuses to receive eth.
or an attorney or witnesses. or, In
fact, anything that might serve toward
bringing about his freedom. AT the
same time his wife, after sacrificing
everything possible, even to mortgag-
ing the furniture of the little home. is
still carrying on the struggle to save
her husband, even against his appar-
ent Indifference. More pitiful still. she
faces the prospect OF having her three
children-Dora, aged 10; Belle, an In
valid, aged 6, and Rue1, aged 4-taken
from her custody by the juvenile court
officers. Mrs. Preston last night told
a pitiful story of brave fight against
odds that were almost overwhelming.
For weeks she has been fighting and
using every available means to aid
her husband. After mortgaglng the
furniture in order to retain legal coun-
sci for her husband, she still found
her hardest battle to come. In her
story last night she said:
81 got letter from my husband to
come TO Ogden to see him. and | went
VI I Int he
Jail. he threw his arms around me.
calling me dear names, and made me
promise that / would come to see him
often and bring the children. He want
ed some clean clothes. and l went
down town and bought him shirt,
pair of trousers, some socks and
some handkerchiefs, Before l left
home here the children gave me some
OF the nickels they had saved and told
ME to buy candy and oranges for papa
I bought these, but when I went back
to the jail the sheriff wouldn't let me
take the stuff to my husband.
Tuesday afternoon I went to see
my husband again, In company with
Mr.. Hart of the railroad. but the sher-
If refused to allow me to enter to see
my husband saying gruffly that Sun
day was visitors day. l tried until
2:30 In the morning to get to see my
husband, but couldn't.
"They told me that my husband
didn't want to see me, and that he
didn't want any attorney or witnesses,
but l know they poisoned his mind
against me.
when | saw I wasn't going to get
back to Salt Lake Tuesday evening,
one of the men in the sheriff's office
at Ogden telephoned for me to
neighbor. Mrs. Paula Smith. to have
her 60 over and take care Of the chill
dren for the night
when I got back today found that
the landlord had been to the house
and shut off the water and left no,
tice that unless the months rent was
paid In three days he would put us
In the street. Then one of the Juvenile
court men was down at the house with
him. and after speaking roughly to
the children said they might be taken
to the detention home"
Although Preston Is held at Ogden
under the actual charge Of breaking
into a box car 1t is believed that he
is wanted only as a witness against
the murderer OF Clark and that he has
been promised immunity. This belief
Is strengthened by his apparent indlf-
ference as TO his position.