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Show l1IA'fiESIIlTAlTI(X Dr. Went Now Assert that Eii Tint Wife Wu Harried Before H Wedded Her. AND THAT HER HUSBAND 13 ALIVE. He Will Set That np u a Defense HiJ Bond Fixed af $3,000 Which He is Unable to 0 ire. Krratle IV. J. J. West, the allegd! bigamist, w hont the grind jury yrster-d.iv yrster-d.iv Indicted for having two pretty young wives, was brought up from th penitentiary this morning, and at the opening of Judge Zane's court he n;i. arraigned for pleading The obi nun walked Into the court room in company with a eput vd marshal and hi attorney, i'olj 11 V. A. Ferguson. The indictment charge Ihe phvsb iau with having married Kate Clabhy, a pretty young woman of 23, Kcluiajv lHth, t'xsu. and while she was mill , alive and undivorced. he afterward,' Heddedjane II. Avcrill, anul her pretty ! young lady of twenty summer. This marriage, a the Indictment rrsltes, tw-t curved April 3. I.tt A the doctor not legally divorced, the grand Jury also charges him with violating the Ed ! muiids Tucker act with the latter youngi woman. When the clerk of thf court read Ihe findings ofj the jur lolheSmof .rVulapiu hl entered a plea of nol guilty. Judge ..mo immediately fUed Wesl'a bail at 3imo for his trial appearance. The doctor was taken lurk to the, marshal's ofllee and retained there) the principal pari of the day in order that his attorney and friends could make an effort ef-fort to secure bondsmen for him. But at a late hour this afternoon no surcllrii bad been found. II will be. taken, back to jail this evening. It is generally iupxed that the do tor's mind is somewhat unbalanced ou account of hU strange actions. Hay before yesterday h told a Tiues man that the reason ho married' Mis Averlll was because he had heard that his oilier wife was drad. Me had heard, he asserted, that she died It Portland where they had resided. Thla morning ho very cordially with his attorney at-torney greeted Ihe name reporter and Informed him that wife No. 1 had husband when ho (West) tuarrted her. Yes." Intnrpoaed C'ol. Ferguson, "that will bit the doctor's defense). It will be sliown that wife No. I or Kat " " flabby had a living husband front! win nu h" was not divorced ! when she wedded Mr. West. ' The doctor, after learning that Ids wife had a legal husband, naturally i-iioubIi supposed (hat hn was not legally her husband, and married Mlsa Averlll." Tin1 case will probably be an Inter cstilig one when It Is called for trial. |