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Show SENSATIONAL CHAPTER IN THEJMATHEWS CASE Husband Now Charges His Wife With Being a Bigamist. ..-Another sensational chapter haa been addM to the already spicy divorce suit of .Janet Mathews . against Albert G. Mathews in the dlGtrlct court. Mathews filed an answer and counter-claim to Mrs. Mathews's complaint, TueEday, In which ho alleges that Mrs. Mathews Isr a bigamist. Mathews admits that ho was married to Mrs. Mathews here December 31. 1903, In form, but not In legal effect. At that time, ho .snys. Mrs. Mathews represented herself to him to be Janet McDonald and an unmnrrlvd woman. Since then he has learned, he adds, that she was then tho lawful wife of one Louis Shaeneger. He asks for an annulment of this pretended marriage. Mrs. Mathews, In her complaint, asked for a divorce on the crounds of extreme cpuelty, alleging that Mathews had broken up the furniture, thrown lamps and kitchen utensils at her, mopped up the floor with her head, threatened to kill her, and she also virtually charged that 1ig had tried to poiBon her. Two or threo days after the complaint was filed it was reported that Mrs. Mathews, being unable to icad ami write did not know what went Into tho complaint, com-plaint, and that there was nothing In the charges. Tho aged couple hnd made up, It was said, and the case was to e dropped, but since then It has been getting get-ting warmer at every stage of the proceedings. pro-ceedings. , |