The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-25
LOYAL WIFE EXILE
FOR SLAyER'S SAKE
Mrs. C. H. Give EndureS EdiCt
of Punishment From Par
entail Home.
WILL STICK BY HUSBAND
BRAVE WOMAN NOT REPELLED
BY FATAL TRAGEDY.

Within a few feet of the place where
she had plighted her troth to Claude
II, Give in the home of her parents,
525 East Eighth South street. Mrs
Give yesterday heard her mother say
that, If she persisted in her determi-
nation to stick by her husband,
charged with having murdered w. Will
cox, she need never darken the doors
of the old home again.
Then Mrs. Give, aged %. and from
whose bedroom in Rio Grande po& car
at Milford Wilcox is alleged to have
been seen coming when Give shot and
killed him, declared nothing but death
should separate her from her husband
and, bidding farewell to father and
mother, returned to the home of her
husbands people, 555 South West Tenn
pie street. Give is out on bail.
IF he was worth while, said Mrs.
O. E Olson, mother Of Mrs. Give, last
night, he wouldn't have kept her liv-
The mother sobbed bitterly 1--WE
have nothing more to say" she added,
looked across the mCOnlit porch at her
husband.
NO" said Mr.. Olson. q don't know
that we have"
1t was dramatically sad scene. The
moon shone full through heavy vines
that almost hid the Olsen porch from
view, but it found its way through the
leaves to the white hair of Mr. Olson
Two Years Remembered.
That Mr.. and Mrs. O. e. Olsen viii
take the witness stand against Give If
strated in their conversation Two
bitter years stand out with never-to-
be-fOrgOtten distinctness IN their mem
Org. These were the two first years
of the welded life Of their daughter
and Claude Give.
Married at home" where she had
been carefully reared, Mrs. Give and
her husband lived for the first twenty
four months and, according to the
statements of the Wife's parents, little
was done by the young husband to-
ward supporting his wife. Lite was
easy, under the parental roof II was
as natural as it used to be 10 tuck the
napkin under the chin and sit Up TO the
parental table.
Then came the box car. Mr.. Olsen
life's twilight setting full upon him.
was doing when a reporter called On
him last night He was waiting on the
porch for Ralph to come home.
Ralph is the other child and IS VI
lucrative in the extreme toward his
brOther-in-law Give. They say in the
neighhorhood that it is best that Ralph.
strong in his yong manhood. and
Claude H Give should not meet. Ralph
likes his sister a little bit better than
anything else on earth, and he says
the inference that anything was wrong
between her and Wilcox is lie. Just
According to Mr.. and Mrs. Olson, as
they talked in the moonlight last night,
the box car life came next in the
exDerfeuce of their daughter and her
husband Mrs Give cooked for the
bridge gang Of the Rio Grande, and
her husband was timekeeper. Wilcox
was foreman.
Early this month, at Mil Fork. where
the box car and the bridge cOnstruc-
ton crew are located, Give IS alleged
to have seen his boss coming from the
bedroom of the car which he and his
wife occupied. Give did not hesitate.
He shot and killed Wilcox.
Now the timekeeper and the cook
having resigned their places. are with
the husbands people on South West
Temple street. Wilcox is buried. The
court in Provo viii sit early in June,
and then, according 10 announced in
tentiOns, Mrs. Give will exercise her
prerOgative as wife and will be mute.
Old Folks to Testify.
But there will not be silence on the
part of the odd folks at home"
Rumors rife that Ralph Olson. brother
of Mrs. Give, has looked up the record
of his brOther-in-l2w and has found
murky stains on it cannot be verified,
but Mr.. and Mrs. Olson need only the
moo Of the attorney to take the wit
ness stand and testify to alleged mis-
treatment of their daughter on the
part of Give.
''They lived in a box car-rny daugb-
ter and Mr. Give" said Mrs. Olson last
night, "and they had their whole home
there. Think Of it, My daughter liv-
ing in box carl Why, she had the
best room here at home when she lived
here. Our very best room!
CnVe and my daughter both spoke
well Of Mr. Wilcox: he seemed to be
great friend of Gives"