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Show OFFICER ADMITS AN "ILLEGAL" MARRIAGE CHICAGO. Jan. 10. David B. MlUlken took the stand in his own defense at the court-martial at Fort Sheridan, and detailed how he and a Filipino girl, after eight months of wooing in the town of Escalante, Negro. Island, B, I., were "11-lerally "11-lerally married," and how, after a period of uncertainty as to whether he was married or not, he participated in another an-other "illeral" marriage, only to find that his wife had been previously married to a native Filipino. This complication of marital doubt induced in-duced him on one occasion to report to the War department that he was unmarried, un-married, and on another occasion to put an Interrogation point after the printed form, "married or .Ingle."; Despite doubt. Mllliken ' asserted he made no attempt to conceal from the natives na-tives that he had "gone through a sort of ceremony." and that he considered him- wvj 1 nwrnea. 'Why then did you not bring your family fam-ily with you when you returned to the United States?" asked Lieut. J. M. Kim-trough, Kim-trough, judge-advocate and prosecutlnr officer. "Did not your wife- and boy want to come?" "Every effort to Intiuce them to come with me failed," he replied. "They did not want to go so far away from home, her mother was sA old and feeble she needed her attention, so I left them Ihere." The Captain said he met Regjna Bads-mo. Bads-mo. 30 year old. soon after his arrival in the islands in ISM, and that his interest in her began at once. "Did you ro to see her regularly?" was asked. "Yes. I went to see her frequently. Her parents were aware 'of my attentions," was tl! reply. "Did you Intend to marry her?" "Yes. I did. I made no secret of that I tried to get the consent of her parents, but could not because I was not of the same religious faith they were." |