Show TWIXT HAMMER AND ANVIL 4 Defendant in a Breach of Promise Suit is i also a Petitioner for Divorce Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch PROVIDENCE R L Feb 5Captain ft Bisbee representative of the Ghinpse gov ernment in the recent Martime conference was arrested at Naragansett hotel ester day afternoon in a suit for breach of r promise The complainant is Miss Mary Locke of East Bar nJton Yt and the damages asked are 25000 The IVcchl I Journal recently published a sketch and I picture of Captain Bisbee and aided b that picture an officer identified him II 3 told him he would like to see him on n le ter of tel important business The cap glanced haughtily at the officer aiiil sum I you want to see me you will come to my room I do not transact business in the hotel lobby The officer then handed him a writ of arrest and told him he was a prisoner Bisbee said he did not care to make a scene and asked per mission to call on an attorney which was granted After consultation 1 ganted Afer consulation between the captain and his attorney Assistant AttorneyGeneral Robert Bur bank Miss Lockes counsel John Thurs ton and James Ripley were summoned and the party went to the court house One of the supreme court judges was notified judges notied and a private hearing held Burbank asked for a release of the prisoner on the prisO1c ground that he did not intend to leave the state Captain Bisbee acknowledged that he was an official of the Cniuese govern ment here on business and his release was refused Then Burbank pleaded for a re duction of his bail which was finally fixed fnaly fxed at 10000 Bondsmen were secured and tho rvrisnnm i released nnntnin Bishfio at once left town It is alleged that the captain once courted Miss Locke and Stcured her consent to marriage Then the captain departed for China vowing that upon his return he would make Miss Locke his wife After the captain had been in China for some years tho government ordered him to this country on official bus ofcial iness Miss Looke claims that before and after his departure from Cuiua ho wrote her letters in which he renewed his prom ise of marriage Upon arriving here he did not visit her but went to Cape Ccd and married another woman whom he took to China with him On one of tho captains trips to this country he brought his wife and two children to this city where they I now reside This marriage greatly in censed Miss Locke to whom tho captain paid no further attention The affairs of the captain are complicated n at present he is a petitioner for a divorce from his wife He she beat says him with a poker and pulled his whiskers poler |