The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22
DECLARES WIFE
IS AF TER Cash
Aged David Persinger Also
Charges Bride of Few Weeks
With Crime.
WOMAN PROTESTS THAT
SHE is INNOCENT
Tangled Skein of Family Trou-
bic Is Up to the courts
to Unravel.

A widower and bridegroom Of 67, who
had few thousand dollars and is sup
posed to have some more money;
woman not yet 40, whom he married
a few weeks ago; young man who IS
named as correspondent in a case III
which a statutory offense Is charged;
son Of the woman and the question as TO
who retains possession of roomlng
house enter into an unusual tangle. do
mestic and financial, that Saturday
night reached the stage of complexlty
requiring the attention Of at least one
court and tho police department.
Late Saturday afternoon Mrs. Mary
Persiuger, landlady of the Ro berts
hotel, 155 West Second South street,
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Ike
Emery on "A charge of undue
intimacy with Harry Lunden, a
cabinet maker and a roomer
at the premises named. The woman
WAS taken before Justice of the Peace
Harry S. Harper, gave an approved
bond of $500, and through her counsel,
Weber q Olsen, took until Tuesday
morning to enter her plea.
Son Also Is Arrested.
While the woman was IN court Clyde
Boycc, who gave his age as Is, son
Of Mrs. Persinger. was arrested by Pa
and held for several hours at the police
station upon a charge of assault. The
youth later was released on cash bond
of $40.
While these proceedings were under
way there was trouble in the Roberts
house as to who was in charge. The
question of the right of Mrs. Pcrsinger
or or Marie Jenson, i young woman.
who was sent TO the place by a repre-
sentative of the parties who claim to
hold an interest in the furnish.
ings, supplied additional complications
Up to late hour attorneys for both
parties to the controversy were busy
IN consultation with their clients
Stories Do Not Correspond.
Statements of facts in the strange case
as told by the parties directly involved
are as widely apart as midnight and noon.
David Persinger, the aged husband, who
complained against his wife, declares that
she Is trying TO get what is left OF his
nttle fortune. Mrs. Persinger, who ayows
that she will bear that name no longer
than is legally necessary. AYERS that.
she has been unJustly accused.
Mrs. Mary BoyCe and David Persinger
We're married in Salt Lake early In De-
Senh ce9oer p,hd OF last a1 year They had known
mento, Cal, Within day or or two W t after
their marriage they secured lease on
the Roberts house, paying $1,000 In cash
ana giving mortgage for $4,000 more
TO the owner, Mrs. Krumhotz The old
man says all the money furnished came
out OF his pocket.
Mrs. Pcrsinger states that she knew
Lunden in Sacramento and that she had
some business dealings with him there
but says that. after he followed her to
Salt Lake. they were never on good
terms.
Husbands Side of Story.
PersinSer says that he is a retired
farmer who made his money In Mime
sofa and went To California TO take life
easy lie lived in Sacramento with three
OF his grown daughters. He met his
future wife there, he says. and was in
fatuated with her because she was "a
wonderful talker," He believed that she
had $4,000 coming 10 her from an estate
In Michigan and that when they had COM
bined their savings life would ever after
be roseate. He declares that she induced