Show HELD BY A THREAD the evidence on which joseph dover if i kept yesterday afternoon joseph dover of the twenty first ward was ai rested on a charge ot of ants unlawful awful cohabitation the complaint in the case was made about a year ago before commissioner mckay but this morning it was changed to come up to date IQ in the examination today before commissioner norrell mr dover pleaded not guilty mr peters represented the prosecution and mr moyle the de defense ferise the first witness AS was mary B laidlow who te stifled I 1 have lived in this city 19 years joseph dover is nv mv husband I 1 was married to him 15 years year S av ago go he had a wife living at ac lal at time sarah dover I 1 lived at my mothers house and still live there tie ike lived with we me as my husband his wife sarah has no children 1 have the youngest thirteen months old the defendant jdant had bad wed lived with me flip al several averal years prior to february MIL a last tn in feb february tuma fie went to alver country in idaboy idaho he be returned d from there on tuesday of last ast week jan ard 3rd he be came to see me and the children on tuesday morning he be till afternoon he has not lived with me ink since he came back but has taken meals with me he called again next best day j he was not in ia my bouse grain again that evening I 1 was not with i him fai that night I 1 was home with my children he be was not there all night best he stayed ayea there all day on wednesday and went away about 8 p in or perhaps a little later he a t away to avoid any trouble I 1 d duhot 0 t know there waa a warrant a oat u tt f ams ae arrest last spring he be never s soled till 10 pm an came every day fo his ht s in meals eaic colnot but not before daylight it wa was a about a t 9 am I 1 think he be was at my house bouse on th thursday aap ri day evening and left about his usual time eleba or nine somewhere along there ed him to come for his bia meals my eldest boy who is 13 years of age Qs away with his father each evening and sleeps with him mr dover at lay brother lu in lawa charles cashing 89 tits first wife lives about a block and a half from Cush ings and mine is about halt half a block they are on different differ eat streets I 1 was at Mrs Dovers Devers on OB new years day Mr Dover supports herbut I 1 do not know whether he be recognizes cog izes nikes her as his wife or not I 1 guess he does mr moyle meyle objected to cie t je witness bellig being compelled by mr betens to guess objection sustained witness continuing ado not know that he recognizes her as his bits wite wife sill all I 1 know of her is that she lived la in his house bouse and rents a part of the house to she teaches school I 1 do not how haw much if any money he gives her I 1 understand that she i to bis big wife that asahe was when I 1 married him I 1 I 1 have not seen him at her house bouse for four or five civo years she has not been sit admy my house heuse slice since when I 1 was there mr dover reco gatzes me as his bis wife bat does not live with me he takes ills his meals at my house I 1 went to see mud IN dover last tight night mr dover dever was he was not at my house at that time I 1 went over to tell mrs dover that the defendant had been ad arrested ested ito mr moyle I 1 say mrs dover coveris is his wile wie because they nave ave never been divorced I 1 do nut know of his introducing her as such with the last three or lour four years deputy marshall pratt te stifled 1 I 1 arrested ri ested the defendant defea dant on main street Wt ut evening I 1 told him I 1 was not disposed to t put tile bis family to any trouble asid and if he would give a bond for bis big second wife I 1 would not disturb her bur he said he be would give elve the bond he be said he had not lived with his first wife for fifteen years he be said he supposed up he would faveto suffer wh when n I 1 told hlin him the charge was unlawful cohabitation he be told me of his hay having bog gone to idaho last spring and returning 9 a 11 few days ago bath of at his bis wives 11 live in 11 the e same neighborhood mr rd moyle ye asked that the defendant be dieh discharged arged and the evidence did not warrant homing hina I 1 mr air cetera instated us lifted that the def defendant end should be held 1 he said e was no BO trouble in making out a case under this charge 5 lie ae was supporting his bis grat wife handshe and able was living jiving in a house bouse owned by him this mr peters thought was sufficient to establish as a fac tithe pe claim that he be recognized her as ois wife ife mr moyle oyle suggested that the court would ut nit sustain such coldhearted cold hearted villainy as mr peters wanted to es cablish ta blish even his noted predecessor did not go to such an extent commissioner norrell sata said he wis was in doubt and as it was only his place to hold tor for the investigation of the grand jury he would place the defendant under bonds axt Q the sum um of 1500 there was some insinuation Inua tion that he was sup supporting his first arst wife the plural il wife wouly would also be required 0 0 o bail |