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Show SOUTHWORTH RETURNS TO HIS ME Henry Soutnworth, who was tried in Ogden last month for the murder of "Ned" Hanks, the manager of the Phlllppini band, and acquitted by the jury, returned to his home a few days ago and attempted a reconciliation with his wife, Myra Southw6rtn, but Mrs. Southworth declined de-clined to bo reconciled. She has a divorce case pending against South-worth South-worth and says she will Insist on a decree. After his acquittal, Southworth went to California with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ella Southworth, with tho intention of continuing to Honolulu, where he was promised a position with an engineering corps working for the government, but it is said that, instead of unking the position, he ro-turned ro-turned to IiIb family and asked his wife to settle past aifairs, that ho might be with his family in the future. fu-ture. J Mrs. Southworth says her husband hus-band was ill and emaciated whon he returnod home and that she" permitted permit-ted him to remain 'at the home a few days and that during that time she administered food and cared for him, but that she told him that thero could be no reconciliation on any kind of terras. She snys that ho then left the home and she thinks he will not return He told her that he would go to California, bu( she thinks he has not loft the state. Mrs. Southworth feels that she was greatly wronged at the trial of her husband by her reputation being brought into question, but sho says she did not at any time desire to have her husband convicted of murder In the first degree. She felt, however, that he deserved punishment of some kind. |