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Show UTAH DIVORCES. The Effect Th?y Have Upon People THIS ONE JAILS A MAS. Chief of Police Travis and Captain Forbes arrested C. Alfred Witton, last night, fur bigamy, and lodged him in the county jail. Witton was auditor of a railway com p Any at Mobile, Ala., and had a aa!ry of $5,000. Whiie cccupyicg this position he went to Jersey city, where be met and married a Alias Elizabeth Wilson, on the 7th day of June, 1S72. The bride and groom then went south and lived happily together for several years. Tbey afterward removed to thia city, and Mrs. Witton went to California, after spending a short time here. He procured a Utah divorce, and formfd the acquaintance of a Mrs, Mary J. Hartpence, former wife of Walter Hartpence, Harrison, Ohio, : an old Indianapolis printer. He 1 j wen t to St. Lou is, accord ing to lagreement, and met his wife on the ilGth ot November, 1877, and Becured her signature to au agreement for him to get a divorce. She claims that this wns done by a trick. On the 17th be returned to Indianapolis, and on the day following procured a license and married Mrs. Hartpence, representing repre-senting himself as a single man. He then took bis second wife to Cleveland, Cleve-land, where he has since made hia headquarters, spending a part of his time, however, in Cincinnati. These facta becoming known through hia first wile, he was induced to come to thia city to see her and arrange a compromise. Ha was met by his Bret wife at the depot, lant evening, on the arrival of the Cincinnati train, and walked wilh her to Georgia and Pennsylvania streets, where he was arrested. He was taken to jail. His wife accompanied him to the jail, and is aniious to get h-'in out ot the scrape, Indianapolis Journal. COMING TO UTAH TO LIY. Ex-Chief Justice Williams left this city Friday lait for hia home in Utah territory, where he expects to have a future professional and political history. It will be remembered that several weeks aince Judge Williams' present wife braught suit against him in the Louisville chancery court to ascertain the legality of their marriage, mar-riage, both parlies claiming that it . was valid but doubts having originated on tbe decision of the McCracken circuit court, on aa indictment against him for living with his present wife, and fining him $20, piedicited od the BUppoied invalidity of bis divorce obtained from his farmer wife in the court of Utah, where he claimed lo live in August, 1870. ThiB ! unusual oaee is brought under an I express provision of Ibe statutes, and Judge Williams' claim can be carried, not only to the appellate court of Kentucky, bat to the supreme court of the United Stales, under its decisions, which he; will do it the .appellate court finds hii i divorce invalid. Judge Williams claims that in pursuance of his orgi-giually orgi-giually proclaimed purpose he returned re-turned to Kentucky for the temporary tempo-rary purpose of winding up the pending suits by bis former wife againat him, and having now accomplished ac-complished tuat purpose, so far as not to require bis presence further, and having them all, aa well aj the firBt-named firBt-named suit, prepared for the appel late court, the purpose of his return to Kentucky has been acoomplitjhed, and tho tioie for his return to his home in Utah haa come. Judge Williams was for twenty yara associated asso-ciated with the bench of Kentucky, Berved twelve years as a circuit and eight years as a supreme judge, and haa . been regarded as among the ablest lawyers and judges of the state, and will doubtless fill a large space wherovor he may go. Louisville Courier Journal. |