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Show BIGAMIST HANGS HIMSELF Dr. Hughes Commits Suicide in North Yakima Jail. NORTH YAKIMA. Wash., Dec 9. Dr J. Edwin Hughes, awaiting trial here on a charge, of bigamy, hanged himself In his cell during last night, the body being discovered this morning He was arrested In Seattle In last February Feb-ruary on a serloua charge preferred by Theophllua Hatch, a wealthy wheat-raiser near Allra Wash , but this charge was later changed to bigamy Hughes ran away with Mrs. Hatch and their fourteen-year-old daughter. Hughes is claimed to have married the daughter at Ogden, Utah. She was granted a divorce at Spo-kano Spo-kano three weeks ago The trial of Hughes had been set for the January terra of the court. |