Show ANOTHER FAILURE I 1 commissioner MISSIONER SUCH CASES bout 7 this morning thos beuker Brn Bi ker of the eleventh ward was seiz seized eds as a vipin under the Edmu edmunds lifis law deputy Vau vandercook dercook served the warrant of arrest which was issued on one of complaints complain tN and at 10 the tbt defendant was arraigned before commissioner mckay y and cl pleaded not guilty to the charge oeun lawful cohabitation mr moyle was the defendants attorney and mr dickson cori ducted the prosecution 1 14 mrs thomas brunker was called as a wit witness and testified ped that she was the la lawful wf al wife of bf the defendant she had bad been married to hini 47 ye years 6 during the past three years he be bad baa lived liked with her exclusively he go had been married to his second wife about 20 years she had bad visited witness house several times and the defendant provided for her elizabeth A H drunker brunker the plural wife had been subpoenaed buteas but was not present and the defendant asked and obtained leave to go and find her which he did returning in afew a few moments she testified that she had been married to the defend defendant ajit but for five or six years they had bad not lived together as they tho y had done before that time for the past years defendant had bad provided for her and had bad visited her house occasionally but they had not lived together the commissioner summed up the caseano case i and ordered the defendant discharged in closing he remarked that he would like to know what was the use of bringing such cases before him where the defendants adante were aged and where here there was no evidence against them them |