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Show HAS FIVE HUSBANDS So J. G. Curtis Says of Mrs. Curtis. WIFE ARRESTED LAST NIGHT Grocery Dill of ?47 10, Says Curtit, Was What Caused Him to Tour Out His Strnnjro Talo of Woe After a Short Courtship and Brief Msr-' tinge, Ho Says, Ho Learned He Wns Husband No. 0 Wife Says Ho Is a Religious Fanatic Sho Admits Having; Been Married Three Times Cundny's Pnilv ) Mrs J o Curlls's boirders In the new brkk house on Fifth South street near Pourth West street received a severe se-vere Innrnl shnl !! hi-i. m.wirr Nailor called ot the house last night mil arrled off the controller of the menu card Uxactli what charge will be preferred ngalnsl Mrs Curtis had not been decided by t ounti Alton, e Chrlstensen nt a late hour last night Her husband If, Indred lie may be called her husband a "uses her of poll po-ll gnm.nis relations with no lem than live men of whom he la No t ulthnugli It appears that No 1 departed this life roconlli The hill vvns slirted rolling hs I O Curtis leslerday nflernoon When County Attorney Chrlstensen returnel from lunch he found a man who hnd been waiting Impnllently for some tlmo In consult him ns to what he should do with regard to settling the nciountn of his wire whom he left a couple of wreks ngo nnd went to live with his children nt H2 South Pourth West for tho very cogent reason as ho sais that he dlscnveied he was only pin) lug fourth fid Ile there being no less than four predecessors to the title of hus-bind, hus-bind, three of 'whose tllles must be null nn I void owing to the original bus- band, John Mllnnj, never having vn-cated vn-cated the position by cither tiling or becoming divorced Mr Curtis snld that he was deepll grieved on dlsiover-Ing dlsiover-Ing thnt ho had been duped In the affection af-fection which the partner of bis Jus and Ills assumed to have for hlin Nevertheless for the sake of his ihll-dren ihll-dren bi a former wife, be would not have given the matt r publicity ho sais, were it not for Iho fnct Unit bo had been summoned to appear before Justice Kroeger to show cause will ho should not settle a grocers bill owing to James It llardman whl.h footed up JI70, which the Injured husbind sais was Incurred by Mis Curtis In running her boarding house Curtis is a car repairer In the employ of tho lllo Ornnde Western Hallway compnni. Ho docs not miko a princely salary. Ho has three children lo provide for, two daughters, aged 10 nnd 11. nnd a boy of 0, and he feels thnt under the rln urn-stances urn-stances his oung ones have tho first call on his purse-strings According to the talo of woe poured Into fie ssmpnthetlc car of the County Attorney. Mrs Curtis Is not Mrs I ur-lls ur-lls at all but Mrs Mllany, In spite of the fact thnt while Mllany was si 11 In tho llesh and still her lawful and obeli-cnt obeli-cnt husband sho made n second venture nintrlmonlalls. the name nt No 5 being be-ing to this plaintiff unknown Still not satisfied, the woman Is said to have appeased ap-peased her matrimonial cupidity by marrying ft "Ir" William Ilurrows. a traveling physician and rnf "'l'"1' elno vendor Her fourth iholco was Charles Cox, a barber and tomorlal "Tho" next chapter In the history of this much-married woman and this episode ep-isode Curtis can certainly vouch for, seeing that he was ono of the parties to tho bargain, brings us down to date Thie Is n touching romance, a love tale with a quick consummation In marriage An nenr us could bo gathered gath-ered from Curtla's disjointed Btate-ments Btate-ments he met Ihe ladi whom ho honored hon-ored with his name at the house of a Mrs Orson Post on Center street Hhe was Introduced to him as Mrs Mllany Cupid seems to have got busy from the start, at lenst so far as Curtis was concerned It was n Sunday and he took tho charming supposed widow to service nt the Tabernncle Like a knight of old he piungeu nnnuy 'n. tho gamo of lote Paint heart never won fair lady! Curtis courtship lasted but n few days He had triumph intly stormed Ihe citadel of the heart of hhi widow They were mart led eatly list Januars Curtis sn8 now that the chlif promoter of nttlon was Ihe providing pro-viding of a home for Ids threo mother less children. Who knows? It may have been so Then the serpent ome Into his Kden "Dr" Hunows a former holder of the matrimonial stakes, reappeared re-appeared on the stage as the heavy villain vil-lain of the piece It would not be in the codrro of human nature If Curtis had not hot ome a prey to Jen ousy Then he became Inquisitive, with tho result that he found out more than was good for him mhs cuivriBhSTom All this Is the husbands tale lie ennnot, nt least aoeuse Mrs Curtis of being nn ndventuiess. Ihe wife has a very different story to tell She says that her husbnnd la a religious fnnallt. . wiim u'l.n nt her house Inst evening sho was Just gitllng reads to place supper sup-per on tho table for her four boarders She enme to tho door, carefully closing it behind her so that the boirders would not henr whnt sho had tn.say, Her daughter a girl of perhaps 18 to "0 sears old came to the door twice to call her mother, with tho ostenslbi purposo of having hei mother not keep the hungrs bonrdfis waiting but more probabls fearing that her mother vvns telling more than her child considered prudent Sho snld thut she had been manled nnic before, but that her first husbnnd wns dead About n couplo of hours latir she was nrreated In the bherlUB office she admitted to tho County Attorney thut sho had been married twice before. That was ns fur as sho would go |