Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-28
MADE ATTEMPT ID SELL HER DAUGHTER. Interesting Story Comes From London Involving a Sale Lake City Mormon T H E GIRL SUICIDED Mystery Surrounds Her Death And Sum of Money is Mentioned as
 The Sale Price.
THE GIRL SUICIDED

London, July 27.-A mothers alleg ed attempt to sell her IT year old daughter to a Mormon was described at Liverpool Police Court when mlddle-aged woman of respectable ap- peafance, named Emily Doughty, was charged with attempting to procure for unlawful purposes the girl in question for a man named Samuel David Lee, of Salt Lake City, U. s. A.
 The woman was remanded after evidence had been given. l r. MT. Duder, who prosecuted, said that the woman was charged with three offenses, only one of which would be proceeded with them. The man Lee, it was brought out
 1lrst became acquainted with the family of which the accused was the mead some seven years ago, just after her husband had died. Alice, an elder daughter of Mrs. Doughty, be- came acquainted with Lee and after l a few days, left Liverpool with him for London, en route for Salt Lake City. They were not married at the ! time.
 AtiS iiOA1 uSFSlOPillGul OCCuftGu some years later In her letters to her mother, Alice mentioned Mrs. l Kelly who lived next door to Lee and herself in Salt Lake City. Mrs. l Doughty wrote to Mrs. Kelly, asking alter her daughter. and Mrs. Kelly wrote back enclosing part of paper which was called the Salt Lake City Herald Republican," This # of the girl. Alice knowing Mrs. Kelly, suggested in her letter, to the man s cruelty and drinking habits; i therefore Mrs. Doughty must have known in October of last year that her daughter had, by reason of Lees ] conduct, committed suicide in Salt 1 Lake City.
 Early in March of the present year Lee was corresponding in affection ate terms with Mrs. Doughty, calling her his Dear Mamma4' He was also addressing letters to her daugh- ter Mabel, in which he made use of endearing expressions which were of an extremely intimate character. In 1 these letters he held out hopes of what his enjoyment might be with that young girl of 17 years of age
 Lees age was apparently between 56 and GA. Mrs. Doughty became aware, in the course of this intimate corre- spondence, that the man had married another young woman, age 24, in Salt Lake City. A newspaper cutting reached her to that effect
 .'In spite of the fact declared Mr.
 Euder, that her first daughter had l gone away unmarried with this man boI
 also of the fact that in March of this year she had heard that Lee had mar
 ried another woman, she had endeav-
 ored for monetary consideration
 l think $123-to send her daughter
 Mabel to Salt Lake City in order that she might become, as far as We
 know, the third wife of this man."
 The daughter would tell, added MT.
 Duder, that her suspicious became aroused as to Lees bonafides, and he
 made certain suggestion to her and
 offered her $2,500. Early this year
 he came to England and stayed at
 hotel in Liverpool where the girl visited him with the permission of her mother.
 I Laura Stern, whose married name
 was Hood, said that seven or eight years ago she became acquainted with
 Mrs. Doughty's daughter, Alice, who,
 she believed was then about 19 or 20
 years of age Following visit
 which they paid one night to Lime
 Street Hotel, the witness, and the
 man flee, were at Mrs. Doughtys
 and at his invitation they had a
 drink. Lee stayed the night there, being locked in the kitchen a pre- caution taken because he claimed that
 he was in possession of a lot of mon ey. The next day, Alice saw the man to whom she was introduced by her mother who said
 This is my daughter Alice She has come home ill.'
 Lee told them that he had come
 over for a wife; for his wife had died
 at sea when he was bringin her from . Africa.
 Later, Mrs. Doughty told the wit . ness that her daughter and the man !. were going to Johannesburg and the , mother had received $100 for her. . On June 18th the witness was at Caergwrle, where she saw Mrs. Doughty and her daughter Mabel. The mother asked her if she had heard that Alice had shot herself; and then she observed that she was going out
 to the same place-Salt Lake City D with Mabel. Lee was sending $169 towards the expenses of the voyage, and she had arranged to go on June y 27th by the Cedric. She added that
 Lee wanted to settle $2,500 on her.
 Nothing was said by the daughter during the conversation.
 TWO MEN HANGED