The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
|[ATH BARES
|DUAL LIFE Of
| NOTED LAWYER
voman Who Lived in Room
Adioining His Office Con-
fronts His Wife Beside
Dead Body.
RAGGED FROM LAIR;
BECOMES HYSTERICAL.
Declares She Was "Wife of
His Heart; Concealed
. Her Secret for Fif-
teen Years.
|, International News Service.

N International News Service.
MONTICELLO, n. Y, Dec. 22,-The
.,Sary woman of the Melvin II.
1boch t7agedy-she who dwelt hidden
N three years in the Office OF the
tsd lawyer and who revealed her
N today for the first time beside his
Ia body in the presence of his wife
aag electrified the even life of this
Ma city with a human drama in
'nparable.
fhe shock Of the sudden death of
3 former district attorney and county
lge, leading figure of law and poll
in Sullivan county, would have
: enough to stir the district. But
woman who suddenly thrust open
door between his room and her
set hermitage, who stood proudly
fore the gathered officers and cried
3 vas the wife Of his heart, has over
|ppsd all other interest.
She is still a mystery, That Ade.
*ide N Branch is her name; that she
# q graduate of the Oswego normal
tool: that she lived in Middletown
ne thirteen years ago; that she met
leh fifteen years ago when she was
ling books, and that she sacrificed
q Life in the world because Of her
|'e for the man; these are the only
mite facts known tonight.
injured in Room.
Since year ago last September she
not once emerged from the little
nterted ofice-it is not more than
feet wide and sixteen feet long
\ the outer world. Doubtless fire.
ntly she entered the rooms Of Mr..
peh adjoining. But through all his
g business hours she sat III COM
He'd silence beyond the partition and
snslated French novels and worked
her exquisite embroideries, Only
little window opened on the
'est. Like Tennyson Elaine in her
yer room, she labored at her art
q dared not look through the win.
puring the first two months Of her
'pslon Sue sometimes left the place
night, but very rarely-so rarely
no one in Monticello knew she
% IN the town A year ago, in
ptember, she went to Middletown to
'snd the wedding of a daughter Of
old friend, She slipped quietly
* 10 her self willed cell.
~ Couch died Of a rupture Of the
''a as he lay on couch in the liv.
foom adjoining his of1ice-not the
mans room.
pshes for Doctor.
y WAS in the dark Of morning wher
rushed to the Office of DR.. Cutrelle
pfother-in-law OF Mr.. Couch, and
sged him to hurry to the Masonic
pPle building. She said Mr.. Coucf
dying.
lug doctor, who had never seen hcl
e, fastened after her. While ht
~ over the man who was breathing
Ast she vanished.
nc doctor was alone with a dead man
fnrnilea allied Coroner Cawthers. Distric
Sbbny Sbbsy Cooke and an undertaken. III
Tor Mrs. Couch and daughter
bss Louise, a beautiful girl of %,
"ssr were standing near the body, tn!
!almed: 49, "''e' ''''
Wonder"
wonder what is behind that door
ras m would never let me go in there
I, r6ev Always locked
ny, Iled the door. IL was locked
rnV rvVouen partition IN which II sWun;
reach the ceiling By about tWl
looked over.
veas Herself.
! S1 t men a woman's voice soundc
y nre nie other side Of the door.
[he lty TO break In. | will come
~ cs soor opened. woman Of
4. Ssme forth.
2 d ~ stepped swiftly toward the dea
vsoss sns sofa. She looked at his fac
: "a rssu sre,' her glance TO the faces {
(, "A sh,ound her, She saw Mrs, Coucl
Y 1Ddn,n1 n,noseNea, amazed, bewlldered. wa
y he s,. III ner daughters arms.
4 arjnra aunge woman strobe TO the wifi
y IA, u Trade Of almost incohereT
3 csIsdhay may be his wife OF the law,
his her frame quivering, "but
"' VILE Of the heart
wtul Wife Swoons.
/.ay- Touch swooned and was carrie
n ID ofyInoer daughter rushed after he
haHi seized the other woma
Z cllsd "a. grip on herself when 81
"e county jail, but collapse
Nonttnuad a..