The copper era and Morenci leader., 1913-05-09
CRIMINAL CHA RGE ENDS IN COURT
 WEDDING
Deputy Marshal Franz Takes a Hand In Affairs of Couple Who Arrived Here From Courtiand and Then Acts As Marriage
 Witness
WELFARE OF BOY INVOLVED
AlPs We'll That Ends We'll and Man and Woman Are Made Man and Wire By Justice Leonard Ar ter Living Together for
 Eight Years.

In the Justice Court of Judge Leon.
 ard on Friday of this week G. H
 Glenn was married to Maudie F. Stev.
 ems in the presence of United States
 Marshal Dick Franz and District At torny B. V. Horton while a three year
 old little boy, the offspring of the
 couple by common law marriage,
 which had continued over a period of
 eight years, played about the court
 room.
 l Instead of a penitentiary sentence
 on a charge of white slavery, and a
 near tragedy, the couple left the court room apparently happy and the officers in the case were satisfied that the best course had been pursued for all concerned
 About ten days ago the couple arriv- ed in Clifton, the man in the case stating that they had come here from the east side and according to the story the man started on a hunt for employment claiming to be a miner He was unsuccessful and according to the young woman's story she was in duced by some young Mexican women to go to dance hall in Morenci, New Town. where it was represented that she could make twenty dollars a night by selling drinks and dancing Ac-
 
 they were in financial distress and she took this course to make a liviug. After going to Morenci she worked in the dance hall for three nights and Glenn followed her there.
 As soon as the young woman, of in nocent appearance and evidently we'll raised and refined. put in her ap- pearance at the Mexican dance hall the fact was reported to United States Marshal Franz, who started an in- vestigation. Constable Ira Dilliner swore out warrant for Glenn on a charge of vagrancy and he was placed in the county jail. Learning of this the young woman came hurriedly to Clifton. At her rooming house on the East Side she was informed by the constable that her husband was in jail on a charge of vagrancy and that likely more serious charges would be preferred against him and the little boy in the case committed to an orphanage
 With a cry of dispair the young wo- man seized a bottle of antiseptic tab lets standing on a stand nearby and pouring a handful into her hand swallowed them before she could be prevented. A doctor was instantly summoned and Dr. Smith of the A. c. staff responded who saved the woman's life. After she was out of danger she stated to Marshal Franz that if her common law husband was sent to jail and her child taken from her she did not care to live any longer.
 The following morning Friday) Marshal Franz took the woman and little boy before Judge Laine in chambers for a conference and there the whole story was told in quiet and simple man;ier.
 She was a girl of fifteen and was living in Bingham, Utah, at the time she met Glenn. She was born in Kansas. Glenn was a native Of Idaho. They fell in love with each | other and ran away without the formality of marriage ceremony, she i being under age. They had lived to- gether for eight years. During all this time the man had been good to | her. They were happy ~togethr. ! Glenn always worked when he could | get it. They had been living in ] different places in the west and sev- eral towns in California, finally con- ing here from Courtland, Arizona They had often decided to be legally | married but after living together SO | long hated the notriety. The young further stated to Judge .Laine that an investigation of her record in the past would show that she had led blameless life and that her visit to Morenci was prompted by her de sire to get funds and the step was .aken contrary to the wishes of Glenn.
 At this juncture Glenn was brought nto the room and after further con- erence the proposition was made by Marshal Franz that the couple be mar jed then and there. Both agreed md the little party repaired to the Justice Court across the hall and were made man and wife in the eyes of he law. Tn couple left the court 'oom arm in arm. All's well that nds we'll