Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1915 — WAS MORMON’S LEGAL WIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAS MORMON’S LEGAL WIFE

Mrs. Bertha Eccles of Ogden, Utah, legal wife of the Mormon multimillionaire timber and sugar man, David Ecclea This picture of Mrs. Ecclea was taken just after she left the stand as a witness in the stilt of Mrs. Margaret Geddes for a share of thS millionaire's estate for her son, oi whom she alleged Eccles to be the father. She won her case. The decision affects no less than 5,000 pen sons in Utah who have been born In plural wedlock.