Show CONFESSES HE HEIS E El l IS 18 A BIM BIGAM BIGAMIST 1ST John oha Coachman for W WIS S Ss McColl k Makes Affidavit I SALT SAhlI LAKE OlL of Mio Irl Led Ltd Ledro Tu ro Thae Had Ulle Ite III tu John Johl Shouse a n In the tho em cm employ ploy 1110 of ot W V H 8 has hal made Ilde an al boron before a n notary lol r public pubIc con confessing c ll that th t bu In IB Is Isn a n bigamist and Ind that he lie hue has a n wite In II Omaha end and ono one hero heru The fhe Investigation which led leI to tl confession wan motto made lado ut tho request of hlf latest whom ho Ito marled In II thin this city eIt Oct 16 1901 1 01 Tho rho Innocent remarks of ot little Mildred tho the of Shouse by hY b liU I II t Ie tho the of at the Mrs MrK who wit h utter consult consulting consultIng ing log her mother laid tho the matter before Attorney Will Wi F Ii with wih In to make a 1 thorough Inva Investigation of the thu affair It I Is eald akI came to this thin city six months ago Igo nud Ild was WIS ns OH iK coachman by Mr Air A shott holt Jessie time Litno afterward ho met Miss Ms Hopwood who lives with hoi Itel mother mulher Mrs Elizabeth Hopwood at lt hl 32 Center Conter street and uti tho couple were married at nt St PaulH ull church chueh on the date 1 above He lIe le had told toll hi hil his wife wIC that lit hI wan SaH n ii widower nod and had two to children ron living with wih their grand par ar In lit II HU Ills now nov marital inertial moved Is nol along nIon smoothly until two or three weeks ago ngo when he Ito went vent hack back to Omahu anti and Inel brought his little O year old daughter hack back with him hint to be b pIne ml ud I In tn Ut Ht lt Marys academy She Sho was taken to bin hil home where slip she soon won the te hearts of ot her now nw relations nut flut otto one day during durinG her fathers fht Innocently told toM of or her mother who wan vas alive and heartbroken over oer being ted turin form her child These hos re ls remarks marks mallel led to an nn Investigation was wa 11 summoned by I b Mr Wan Won Wanless Wanless less les and a nd was waR told of o the tho suspicions of at Ills his wife wiro and n a full rul confession conre slon In lii tho thi form of ot an cu affidavit so BO that his hisle new le wife may have the tho marriage an nn annulled and be he free rree to 10 remarry him af nt after aftel tel ter he h obtains a I divorce from torn hl his hiM Oma Orna Omaha ha la wife Tim The follows In full fullI tul I 1 John inako 10 that 7 I wits was to Jennie denote In Omaha Oct 14 U anil inI Ind have hare two to children by that marriage o So Ho far as ns asI I know knol I 1 am still mill married el to t her hr and andam nn andem am em divorced from rO Ill ll It r and ni nd believe bellave her to bf hr hI still MII alive On Oti Ort Ott Ort IDOl 1001 I wont went through the ceremony c remon of ot marriage with Wih Jessie Jel l Hop Hopwood hopwood wood of nf Salt Sni Lake City In lii St church I 1 then lien had hll a wife wire living vi and I make tide this nf at 1 1 II said all for tor tho the purpose of allowing Hopwood to resume her hor maiden mailen name and to show that elm shi line ban the right to remarry John Johi Johl Shouse Signed Sl JOHN nell was not nt the least leant concerned about the allegations of ot his hil wife and merely stated that He Ue would not have havo thought It of her hor Since the discovery ery cry WON was made Mrs lt has not lived 11 with lh her husband and alt although she sh 1 do does s not desire to prosecute him the he would appear as a I witness If the Clue case authorities decide to prosecute prose ulo the |