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Show WHO OWNS THE CLOTHEST Dr. West and One of HI. WW.. Fie"" For a Trunk. The preliminary bearing of Dr. J. J. West on the charge of appropriating his first wife's wearing apparel to ms own use in coujuction with wife ho. 1 s (Kate Clabby) replevin suit to get possession pos-session of her trunk and clothes was resumed this morning before Judge Greenman. , Wife No. 1, who caused a few days days ago the arrest of the physician on the charge of bigamy, in her coniplaint iu replevin, claims that Dr. West bought the earmeuts for her iu New Albany, Oregon, and took them with him when he decamped. Dr. West was put on. the stand and the prosecution, which was conducted con-ducted by a youthful lawyer, extracted ex-tracted a lot of evidence that was foreign to the question at issue and Colonel Ferguson, counsel for the defense, referred to his knowledge of law as coming from an almanac. In fact, there was such a jangling between tho lawyers that the court was obliged to call them to time on several occasions. occa-sions. The witnesses were not much better bet-ter Dr. West's memory seemed a blank. He claimed to . have sold 160 acres of laud in Oregon, but disremembered to whom the property had been conveyed. He seems as erratic as ever, and one of his witnesses by the name of Mrs. Annie An-nie Ncwcomb was worse, if anything, any-thing, than he was. She seemed irrational and mentally depressed. She was the . doctor's housekeeper house-keeper in Oregon and had come here with him. It was difficult for cither the prosecution or defense ' to adduce ad-duce anv . intelligent evidence from her. It was finally learned from her lips that Young Mrs. West would not occupy the same room with her husband hus-band after the marriage, and that was the principal reason that ho would not let her have the garments that; ho purchased pur-chased for her. The case is still on trial this after-uoon, after-uoon, and wife No. 2 (Miss Jane Averill) with her mother are constant attendants attend-ants iu court, and take much interest in the proceedings. When court reconvened at 3 o'clock, Mrs. Ncwcomb refused to answer several sev-eral questions pi'opounded by the prosecution, pros-ecution, and she was locked up for contempt con-tempt of court, and kept in jail until 5 o'clock. If she still declines to answer questions she will be sent out to the penitentiary aud incarcerated for a few daj's. |