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Show - COHABS IN DURANCE. TheJohnsnn Family Before tU tn- erring Aim or Hie Deputy. Deputy Marshal Bush who has been wrestling with the practitioners of po-lyfemiy po-lyfemiy for some time with the most j'aiKike results bagged three individuals individu-als this morning at eight o'clock 011:1 warrant calling for the arrest of John Doe Johnson. His attention had, for some time been directed towards a suburban su-burban castle, consisting of two seveu-up seveu-up apartments that were .occupied according ac-cording to the romance of the warrant bv two wives, a brace of straw-haired babes and his censorship who denies that ho is Johnson. The campaign was not without a line of excitement. In covering the enemy the deputy marshal had found it necessary to call in an "extra" "ex-tra" who was detailed to locale Johnson at Sanbiirg's furniture establishment. The extra identified the party for whom he was searching, and was asked to servo his warrant. This was in Deputy Rush's pocket, however, and left the extra before 'his recalcitrant focman hors du combat. The extra, who was none other than Ed Ray, saw a lit moment mo-ment for heroic action and was in the act of applying force when one of the spectators, as narrated by the deputy marshal, drew a nix-shooter and commanded com-manded his visitor to leave. Mr. Ray was not in position at the moment to dispute this argument, and reported to Deputy Rush, who proceeded to arrest Johnson under warrant. The gentleman gentle-man w as looking through the bars when Tiik Times representative sought him for an interview, in which he denied every- allegation in the warrant. He contends that he is the victim of "mistaken "mis-taken identity" and that, instead of being be-ing Johnson his namo is Peter Ohlin, married in Sweden and a resident of Ziou for seven years. An angular creature creat-ure with plain dress was next visited by the reporter. She had been weeping, like the willow, so symbolical of the broken hearts that endured a living death in Jordan's sunlit valley. "1 am the second wife of Johnson, ." she said, "but that man behind the bar is not Johnson. He brings his washing to my laundry like a good many other gentlemen and I don't know niin from an angel." "Your husband?" "Oh, that miserable wretch has gone w ith his first wife and left me with those two children and a washtub. I don't care any more for him than I do for a strauge'dog. I'm glad they are gono," growled the prisoner. The woman who silently occupied a chair and craned her neck from the w indow was Clara Johnson, no relation to Sophia Johnson, who had just a moment mo-ment before baptised her prodigal spouse in scorching scorn. Miss Clara, who is not a product of "last grass," denied any connection with tho pacing, restless figure behind the bars, and declared de-clared with dramatic emphasis that her heart was yet waiting for a captor. Deputy Hurt pronounces these stories false, and says tho defendant, who claims to bo Ohlin is Johnson, against whom he has irrefutable proof. Johnson was arraigned before Commissioner Com-missioner Greenman at 2:80 o'clock this afternoon, and pleaded not guilty. Tho examination was commenced and . is now in progress. |