Show c = DR WEST THE DECEIVER lIe TT111 Hare Otbei Charges to Meet Dr John James West Is etlll in the penitentiary and has a fair prospect cf remaining there for s long period His preliminary examination was set for 10 am today before Commissioner Com-missioner Greenman but It did not come off The reason was that the te doctorcould not find a lawyer who I would take his case I Jr Hnlrn wee Itrd I I w but when be learned of his clients posItion he refused to undertake the task Then Judge Powers was called upon The Judge looked Into the circumstances and began to think A s he considered his bearings he enunciated In a few words at a time his view of the situatIon Ive always had to hunt doctorst aId he and paused Then he continued But this is the Dm time a doctor bas bunted me Another jaufc If this is the kind of Jobs they want I think Ill leave em alone Another flash of elleucu Ill do most any thing but they cant give me a contract con-tract like this no sir And that was settled Then the doctor begin explaining to bystanders Uiat he thought hla wife was dead when he proposed I marriage to Hits Everill Next he proceeded to declare that Mrs West of Portland Oregon was one of tie vilest women living He lapsed I Inti silent mood again until n Mr Annie XounDln came in and conversed con-versed with him To those unacquainted unac-quainted with her thelr conversation I conversa-tion conveyed the idea that they were husband and wife the way they discussed domestic matten and the ownership of various household house-hold articles But pile was only hIs housekeeper After waiting In vain for tho doctor to get an attorney to defend him tho prosecutor finally sent the defendant back to the penitentiary and the witnesses to the graudjury The housekeeper referred to took a great interest In the doctor Mrs Catharine Weit whole now known as the first wife had not Been Mr Xounuan elacu her arrival in this cty When the did tee her however how-ever she was so astounded tat she came Very near fainting When she regained her sclfcontrol she exclaimed that that woman was formerly her servant In the meantime Mrs Wests demeanor toward Miss Everill had materially changed She had I been lbP tb wrought up to such a pitch that she I seemed to have no feeling but this passed off and she has become I deeply concerned in the doctor latest vlttim and a common cause now unites them Mrs West related her story In substance sub-stance as follows Three jtar ago Dr J J West came to roitlauj Oregon from Mortaia hue said He had with him Mrs Nouuuan a his housekeeper lIe wooed and won thu present Mrs West and fourteen months ago he led her to the altar In Ibo Catholic Church at Portland They lived together to-gether till June last During Dur-ing thIs period while Mrs Nounuan nominally held the peel tlon of setvant she practically had her own way In tie house tao doctor doc-tor placing her in this position lie was attentive to blr89 bIlls Wife and even more so Thewlfeobjected and early r Juno the houMkceptT suddenly left At the same time considerable lortlon i of Mrs Wests Jewelry and clothing diKap pcared A few days sIt rtt ani and wlthcut giving Mr West any Idea that a tcaration was dtslred by him the doctor departed between be-tween two ds taking everything he could carry oil except 10 She could gtt no trace of him till n few weeks ago when she learned that he was lu this city and diUrmlned to follow him The result iskuown to the public But now new question ari uln the minds of the two wivte Are they victims of a conspiracy on the part of Dr West an I his pretended iiousekeepcl Is the latter an accomplice ac-complice in lila tcheme of going about the country marrying wive and then dtwrtlug thtru Is Mr West of Portland iu the same cltu aim cs His West of Salt Lake How many other wives has the rerlhSs rer experienced I deceiver he is 05 years old bem married tiThe ti-The doctor has tried to set himself him-self right befor the public so he faY He wrote three letter one to the Ifcraltl an 1 one to tie IriS one ThiAe were in the marshals bands today The third was to Mint Everill III this he addrrfees her as Mrs Dr Weft Dear madam Then he gees on to cay tat todays examination wculil clear himbut it didnt He hay the only error he made was in not telling her Uiat lie was married before be-fore This in the faro of the fact that he declared with his hands uplifted to heaven that he had never been married at all This Mm Xouunan was a wltmik to the marriage in Portland and also knew of the one here and it would stem that If there Is any law punish her it should be invoked It may be that she Is under the Influent In-fluent of thu doctor and dared not nivcal his perfidy to save a young girl from his villainy but the circumstances do not at present point Uiat way In gilllng out Uiemarriage licence before County Clerk Cutler the doctor also committed perjury and lie will be required to answer for that crime |