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Show SPARED MM A SAKE 0F?Af,!ILY Bigamist Placed , on Probation - When Loyal Wife's Plea ? Wins Judge. j TWO WIVES DIFFERENT Second One Wants Man Sent to Prison , as Example While First Wife Asks He Be Returned to His Family. - Detrolt. For a stage setting, a somber courtroom ; the chief perform- era, a confessed bigamist, his loyal wife, the girl he wronged ; the plot a struggle for mustery between the wife's desire to restore to her children ' ' L their fathw.and the girl's demand for " p. justice for her baby and herself; the wife won, y William IL Orton was brought be- fore Judge Thomas Cotter In Muni ' f cipal court for sentence. Last week j be confessed he had wed BuWa Nicholas June 6, 1921, although he had I a wife, Florence Evans Norton, daugb- ter of a wealthy Brockton (Mass?) manufacturer, and three children, Hv- ' lng. Mrs. Orton accompanied ner husband hus-band and the detective who brought him here from Brockton. When he pleaded guilty she expressed a willingness will-ingness to adopt Huldn's three-months-old daughter. Hazel, If the court made a condition of probation. Two Women In Court . When Orton faced Judge Cotter hla wife and Hulda stood on either side of him. Flanking Hulda were her brother, Arthur Nicholas, and Arthur's wife, with whom she and the baby have 6een living. A probation officer stepped forward and handed to the court a report recommending Orton to be placed on Ave years' probation on condition that he pay Hulda (J I ; week for the support of the child. " ? "Do you want your husband backf Judge Cotter asked Florence. "I surely I do," she answered. "I love him, no matter what he has done, and my children need their father." "And vou?" the ludue turned to Hulda. "What do you say?" The girl'a j eyes flashed. She dug her fingers Into . l the supporting arm of her brother 4nd r bit her lip. I "1 want him sent to prison," she I cried. "Slake an example of him. I j want Justice. Ills word Is no good. 1 Put him where he can't do this to some other girl." Florence threw her nrms about Orton's neck and wept. He comforted i her. She dried her eyes and addressod f the Judge. j Wife Begs for Mate. "She'll get $3 every week," the wife t assured. "I'll see to that. Will make i ( i t ft ft I "What Do You Sayr only $25 a week, but we con scrape along. Please let me take him home." "I deserve no leniency for myself," Orton Interjected. "I am thinking only of my wife and children." "It's high time yon started thinking of them," Judge Cotter told him. "If It wasn't for them you'd be on your way to the penitentiary to serve Ave years." The court announced that Orton would be placed on five years' probation, proba-tion, but warned that If he failed to pay the $5 weekly to Hulda he would be brought back to Detroit and sentenced. |