Show SENT TO THE PEN i ii Lii y everelMtef uses toj 6 k t Lswk1 a Question J I THE NEWSOX POLYGAMY CASE J The Alleged Second Wife Slakes Several Sev-eral Strange Statements andes and-es to Prison l c Ii n Wm D Newsom by trade a painter butat present the proprietor of a small grocery store in the Eleventh Ward was arrested yesterday morning on a complaint from Commissioner McKays court charging him both with polygamy poly-gamy and unlawful cohabitation According Ac-cording to the document on which the arrest wasmade Newsom married a woman named Lucy Deverell on November I No-vember 16th 1883 while his lawful wife was still living and undivorced The examination in the case was commenced commenc-ed at 2 oclock yesterday afternoon at the Commissioners office Mr Varian conducting the prosecution The defendant de-fendant was asked if he had legal counsel but he said no he shouldnt require any The first witnesS was Lizzie Deverell a sister to the alleged second wife who testified as follows I am acquainted with Mr Newsom and his wife I went to their house when I first came here from the old country I was last there on Friday night Mrs Newsom was there Lucy Deverell was not there I went there every other Sunday to visit Mrs New som my sister has been there with me several times I have never given testimony testi-mony in a court before but I understand under-stand the nature of an oath The witness said she had never seen her sister in company with Mr New som she came from England her sister sis-ter was living at Mrs AustiIS she left here and shed not know whereshe lived came to the Commissioners office with her had talked with her I had heard what the case was QHow did you know J AI wont tell you when or where QWbnt information did you get I AThats another question I cant Rn wp She was not a member of the church had eaten at defendants house but had not passed a night thereijdid not know that her sister had d child i had not seen it had not heard of her sisters having been married lived at 415 corner Fourth South and Main streets denied having told Mrs Armstrong Arm-strong her sister was married Lucy Deverell the alleged second wife was next placed on the stand she is a woman apparently thirty years of age of rather small stature and with a quiet but rather determined way of express ing herself She testified I am sister to the last witness I live in the Eleventh Elev-enth Ward in a house adjqiningjthe de fendants on the same lot Ipa him a rental for the house I live alone 1 am not marriedI 1 have a child eight monthsold I have been through a ceremony emony in the Endowment House but not a ceremony of marriage There was a brief pause as these somewhat extraordinary admissions were made Mr V rian then resumed vigorously f C QWho is the father of that child AI decline to answer QAre you living with the father of that child I ANo r 91s Mr Hewsom the father ofyour child I f j mr t AI will not say d QHave you been married to Mr Newsom in celestial or plural marriage ANo QHave you been through the Endowment En-dowment House with him ANo Eesumed nay 5 a month rental for my house L have lived there a year and a half I earn my living by sewing I did not leave Mr and Mrs Austin for the purpose of getting married I am a member of the Church of JesusChrist of Latterday Saints Several other witnesses were here examined ex-amined but nothing of any importance elicited from them MB VARIAN then announced that he should have to insist upon an answSr to the questions he had put to Lucy Deverell she was recalled and the questions as to who was the father of the child repeated She again declined to answer COMMISSIONER McKAY said that he would give the witness fifteen minutes in which to reconsider the matter and the proceedings adjourned for that length of time Newsom sat near the witness and engaged in arnest conversation with her for some minutes which the Commissioner at length perceiving interrupted in-terrupted by ordering Newsom to refrain from talking to her pending the time allowed At the end of The fifteen minutes i min-utes Mr Varian returned and the examination ex-amination was resumed QDo you desire to take legal advice as to whether you should answer this Question or not 1 i r 4 f Alrl do not care tor do so I i would decline to answer just theTsame j QHave you made up your mind not to answer AI have fully MB DICKSON who had just entered It would be as wellto ascertain if she understands the penaltyjfof refusing to answer a proper question THE WITNESS It doesnt make any difference THE COMMISSIONER The v law provides that you may be committedttbi the cus tody of theMarshal until you are ready to answer and it is the order of the Court that you be committed to the custody of the Marshal until you make up your mind to answer these questions MB NEWSOM Does the law provide that MB VARIAN ironicallyThat is the law under which Bell Harris and Nellie White were committed I suppose sup-pose it will hold the witness Miss Deverell was at once taken to the Penitentiary Mr Newsoms bail f was fixed at 2500 pending the continuation I continu-ation of the examination at 2 p m today As he was unable to obtain I sureties he followed his alleged second I wife to the Pen a few hours later All witnesses were told to appear today except ex-cept Mr and Mrs Edward Austin who I were excused until notified I |