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Show LEFT HEK I!l'SHANI. A NeiiKBllonnl Adultery Cine llefnre a I nlted states CommlsKloncr. Mrs. lJclsy Egbert and John Thompson, Thomp-son, a pair of very ordinary people, were given a preliminary hearing this afternoon on the charge of unlawful cohabitation. co-habitation. United Slates Commissioner Norrell heard the case, but dismissed it, as there was not suflicicnt evidence to hold the erring pair to the district court. Mrs. Egbert is the wife of John C. Egbert of Graulsvilkv but since the lirst of February she has not been liv- ing with her husband. She desertcu him and went to living with John Thompson, who is a neighbor. William Thompson was the complainant complain-ant and caused their arrest. Egbert's aged mother was the lirst witness introduced. She said that her sou was compelled to marry the woman when she was but 11 years of age, and they got along very nicely until Thompson Thomp-son crossed the threshold. Ths husband hus-band suspected not bin wrong until some of his friends told him that he had seen Thompson hugging and kissing his wife. The husband rushed home very much en-rngedtanil en-rngedtanil accused his wife of infidelity. Slur at once informed him that she cared nothing for him and that she would live with him no longer. In two days she went to living with Thompson. The evidence adduced at the hearing did not show whether Mrs. Egbert was living with Thompson or whether she was working us a servant, and accordingly accord-ingly the court dismissed the case. |