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Show Captain Harried the Filipino Maid Admits tho Charge, but Says His Wife Refused to Come With Him to This Country. CHICAGO. Jail. 9 -David B. Mllllken took the Atand In his own defense at the court-martial at Fort Sheridan today, and detailed how he and a Filipino girl, after eight months of wooing in tho town of Fo alante. N- gros island, P. I., were "II-U "II-U ally married," and how. after a ptfiOd of uncertainty as to whether ho was married or not, he participated In another an-other 'illegal'' marriage, only to find that his wife had been previously married to a native Filipino. This complication of marital doubt in-dUoed in-dUoed him on ono occasion to roport to lh- War iN i- irlin- i I thai h- imuh unmarried, un-married, and on another occasion to put an Interrogation point nftor the pi luted f--rm. "married or single." Desplto doubt. Mllllken asserted ho. made no attempt to conceal fr m the natives na-tives that he had "gone through a sort of c.remony " and that ho considered hlm-e-.Jf manied. "Whv then did you not bring your family fam-ily with you when you returned to the United States?" asked IJeut. J M. Klm-I Klm-I rough, Judge-advocate and prosecuting officer. "Did not your wlfo and boy want to come?" "Every effort to Induce them to com with in failed." ho replied. "They did not want to go so far away from home, her mother was so old and feeble sho needed her attention, so I left them th re " The Captain said lie met Reglna Batls-mo. Batls-mo. TO years old. soon after his arrival In tho Islands In 1A09. and that his Interest In hor began at one- "Did you go to see her regularly?" waa ak.-d. "Yos, I w.-ril to sco her frequently. Her pnrents were awaro of my attentions," wns Me reply. "DU you Intend to marry her"" "Yes, I did. I made no secret of that. I tried to get the consent of hnr parents, but could not because I was not of tho same re'lglous fnlth they were." |