Show CLERGYMAN IS FOUND GUll TV Sentenced to Term in Georgia Prison for Bigamy CHARLOTTE N N. C c. Oct Dy By 8 By ByThe The Associated Press Recommend Recommending ing merc mercy a jUry In n Mecklenburg su superior su- su superIor perlor court Friday found Rev Willis WillisT T T. Jordan of Columbus Ga guilty of ot bigamy and Judge James L. L L Webb ebb sentenced the aged a ed preacher preather to from two to three years jears In fn the state prison t. t G at RaleIgh The verdict relieved followed a II three day trial that pivoted around an alleged series of matrimonial escapades cul cul- culminating culminating culminating In the preachers preacher's marriage here to Mrs Emma Emmi Langbridge Jer dan of or Washington D C C. on August Au st 19 the specific Incident which led to hU hl arrest later In Grand Orand Rapids Mich and Indictment MAY Y POST DOVD DOND DO D Sent back bade to jail with bond ond fixed at 1000 a 1 ray of or hope was seen when Tom P Jamison of defense counsel said aId he believed belle he would be able to post bond Monday from voluntary subscriptions of local citizens who have e offered offend to contribute sums to effect the ministers ter's release from Jail Overruling a II motion for a new v trial by b defense counsel Judge Webb passed sentence after the jury jur Ignoring a pica plea of Insanity end and expert psychiatric tes tes- testimony testimony seeking to show that Jordan was as demented found the minister guilty with recommendation for mercy Defense counsel Immediately pave gave notice of ot an nn appeal to the supreme court Jordan did not hear the sentence ns os asIt Jt n fell from the lips of or Judge Webb x After the thc shuffling shuf of ot footsteps as the leave x many spectators began b an to leave the he minister arose and accosted a news news- newspaper newspaper paper man In high pitched querulous ous voice olce he asked what the Judge had said sa I After ter being told the convicted man started stonily about him fo ra few moments I g Shortly afterward he regained his usual calmness and was escorted from fron the tt to hIs Ws cell I AID 10 Ij I PLEDGED FLEDGED I f The minister went through the trial trial without the comforting presence pr ence of Mrs Veazy Veary V V. Snyder Jordan of Winding Gulf W W. Va whom he ehe vehemently has maintained Is his one one and an only n true wife and only nJ love I The woman o who I wrote Jordan r here ere pledging her aid and love lore did not come nc to the trial I It de developed eloped from testimony at the thc I II I trial that Mrs Laura E E. Jordan whom hom the minister Is said to have married at fit Oswego Kan Han G 0 G. G 1898 and end who he said was ws the mother of at athIs his five fIc children was vas still living No record of ot a divorce from this wife was wa referred to at the trial |