Show THE BOWMAN CASE I 1 when the third district court had been formally opened this morning attorney F 8 richards chanla Bi mentioned the ease case of robert bowman convicted ted recently on an indictment charging him with unlawful cohabitation sentenced to pay a fine of and to be imprisoned for six months counsel said he be desired now to apply for a modification of the sentence being persuaded that there had been some mistake as to the real status of the case or the disposition of the defendant at the time punishment was imposed upon him by the court mr bowman was very hard of hearing and showed that he did not understand fully the questions propounded to him by his honor he did not according to his statement since know that he was wall required by law to live with his first wife but had the impression that he might live with 5 either of th them so BO long u s he kept jo ita 21 that one by mutual agreement be tween tweed himself and his first wife lie he ha arranged to live with his se second cond owing owl to pertain circumstances es it be MIM that she had effirm and required assistance assi si in its management for forteni thad reason mr bowman arranged to with her altogether he had doff this exclusively for more than a abow just prior to his recent trial he h hid all along supposed that he was cow plying with the requirements ot the law lam but now realized his mistake add was ready to promise to faithfully ob om the law as construed by the court wo two wives were present and would aw ans awer any questions put to them the judge under the statute of I 1 OW adultery is one of the worst of calm 2 in the eye of the law and ts t 1 S assume that if this defendant was 4 ing with his second wife he W was as living 5 I in adultery with her and ought W ts 1 have known better than that mr richards it appears from hu hift statement that he did not know better he is present here this morning and lo 10 Is his lawful wife the judge well lot let him stand up he appeared certainly to be very m muda confused when before the court it foft M sentence een tence mr richards he tells we me he did not then understand the interrogation ft of the court his legal wife tells mft aw that the only reason for his oil the house in which she ii liveson ona oe occasion casion was because one of toss bb daughters daugh tars was lying sick there and at the point of death and he went thew to sit up with her in reply to the court defendant bald 17 he had bad only these two wives we married the first wife about th years ago and the second arna johnson about six years ago he WW under the impression that he was 4 9 lowed to live with either one lr ho pleased so long as he kept to that mw he was 59 years of age judge zane you knew there v a great many men being P rose 0 VW and punished for unlawful cohart tion you defendant yes sir Q and you knew that quite a good many were being punished for a bd tery A yes I 1 saw it in ila the papers Q well when you learned thai why dian didn it you quit thia thi not only continued after you must have know it was waa contrary to the law but buk yott continued it after the church to wa chor you belong had changed its doe doctrine 4 as I 1 understand upon the sub c polygamy and unlawful cohabitation as being against the law do you understand der stand that the doctrine of church now forbids you viola violating tw to law of catering into polygamy or practicing unlawful cohabitation you understand that now better than you did A yes yea do you understand now that both the law and your church compel you to live with your first wife and that you cannot live with your second A yes sir air Q Well what is your intention with respect to the future A I 1 will obey the law faithfully Q and will not associate with your second wi e in any way that is to say my as a wife A no sir I 1 will not v the judge but of course you have ints if you yo think proper to provide V ft cr her and furnish her and ana her M h with necessaries it to is your duty mo to educate your children whether favate or illegitimate to the outing att torney what do you or stephens know about this man mr stephens the testimony as to athe e circumstances of the case was very r that he had bad lived with his plural asje IT judge ju dee zane yes he be admits that K mr stephens 1 dont see that there 16 any excuse for him defendant answering his honor mid aid hi his 0 health was very poor the judge after a pause well I 1 i thick ink I 1 I 1 E will let et the sentence stand as it aw if you want to make an application fakir abr a pardon you vou must make your state sent ant to the president of the united gates T then ben perhaps you may obtain L k IL ft that ia all bailiff sprague walked up to the de Aan fondant dant took him by the arm and with the words come al along 11 es ported ed him into the marshals office p mr jar bowmans bowmanjr Js wives were not inter f by the court |