| Show A SEPTEN FOR cohabitation ADULTERY ADDED last evening andrew homer of mill creek salt lake county was arrested on an a charge of unlawful unlawful cohabitation made by deputy franks tie the old gentleman is seventy one years of age he awas released on 1000 ball bail to appear lor for examination today to day he was called before commissioner mckay at 11 this morning and I 1 abed not guilty to the complaint B R e was without an attorney mr dickson prosecuted mrs petra homer was the first witness she tes testified titled my maiden same name to is peterson I 1 married defendant in 1880 in salt lake city 1 live in mill creek ward have one child seventeen months old the defendant lives with me ie he had bad a wife janina before he married me mrs anna homer testified my maiden name naine is anderson I 1 was married to the defendant for the next world his first cifes name is janina I 1 was married 16 15 or 16 years ago janina lives near park city she left ears aeo 0 11 or 12 1 I live jive in mill creek vardary ward by myself the defendant comes to see me occasionally as a neighbor I 1 take care of myself I 1 wanted him to met get another wife he lives with petra now in reply to the commissioner the defendant d efen dant gave his bis age at 71 years he be was poor and feeble he said his bis drat wife had bad died in the states over 30 ye years m ago he married again but his wife left jeff lim him 11 years ag agu he be then had bad two wives one of which was for eternity and with whom he had bad not lived in 1880 he married again and was now living with his bis wife he bad never lived with but one wife at a time it if he be was sent to the penitentiary and I 1 lived ved long enough to come out lie he gouid would have t to 0 go back to his bis present re en t wi wife e a as 3 the ond held to be the legal e ga iw wife if h bad a left him five years before f or the last marriage arige and nd they could not live together mrs petra homer stated to the commissioner that the defendant had bad lived with her alone and that thai she was in fact his only wife mr dickson demanded that the de lenfant be held not only for unlawful cohabitation but also for adultery to io living with his third wife the commissioner stated there was probable cause to believe the defendant guilty of unlawful cohabitation and of adultery in living with his wife petra and axed fixed the bail at 1500 the two ladies were also required to give eive bonds in the sum of each to appear before the grand jury and at 2 the 1 trial |
