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Show HAD SURPLUS OF HUSBANDS. Butte Girl Fools Couple of Men and Is Now Charged With Bigamy. nutte, Mont. Two weeks ago tho 20-year-old wife of Oeorgo Melville, a miner, told her husband sho was going go-ing to attend the wedding of a friend. Lntcr It was discovered that sho was tho brldo and had married Harry Northey, a young man living less than half n mile from her homo. Mrs. Melvlllo had told Northey that Mclvlllo was her undo nnd Bhe did not want him to know of her marriage mar-riage for n while, as sho feared ho would oablo tho news to her mother, who, sho said, is an Invalid In lon-don, lon-don, So sho went bnck Bnd lived with Mclvlllo for a week, then roturned to her younger husbnnd and remained with him until Tuesday when Melville Mel-ville succeeded in finding her. Sho denied him nnd declared ho was her uncle and nothing moro. Ntfrthey bellovcjl her, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the records of the court at Great Falls, which show that Bhe married Melville In August, 1901. Tho girl four years ago was married mar-ried to a man named Walbrldge who abused her and was killed by hor father near Phllllpsburg, Mont., for which crime tho father, Carllslo Huuter. Is serving a sentence In the state penitentiary. The young womnn wo-mnn wbb arrested on n charge of bigamy. |